Freedom isn’t free. You have to pay for it and it is the most expensive thing in the world. It seems that many no longer want to pay that price. They demand conformity to an ideal with the argument that it is how the U.S. should be. They invoke the words of men dead for over 200 years to argue their case. They are willing to let everyone be free, as long as they use that freedom to be white, middle class, protestant and preferably not intellectual. The disdain they have for anything else seems to be the result of a deeply rooted inferiority complex and they are taking it out on that minority that is under siege, the easiest target, the scapegoats. I will not go so far as to mention anything that would fall under Godwin’s law. We are not quite that far yet. But we are getting closer and the free world is set to lose the diamond in its crown. The country that has always been the great champion of freedom, justice and democracy seems to have lost all its values.
Freedom cannot exist without tolerance for the right of people to be different, to make other choices. The moment tolerance vanishes, freedom becomes oppression.
