I've had it with all this whining about freedom

[spinbaby]

After listening to another teabagger whine about how Obama and his big bad government is going to take our freedoms, I decided to list some of the great freedoms we can experience in their Republican fantasy land:

The freedom to work for slave wages.

The freedom to work while sick.

The freedom to experience random gun violence.

The freedom to be discriminated against because you’re black, female, gay, smart, Muslim, or just not flag-waving patriotic enough.

The freedom to invest your retirement funds in opaque, unregulated markets.

The freedom to pay more taxes so billionaires can pay less.

The freedom to die without insurance.

The freedom to be ignorant.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

1. Every Time I Hear Some Right-Wing Douche Sputter Out The Word "Freedom"..............

.............it makes me think of that line from "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo."

"Isn't it interesting how Fascists always steal the word 'freedom' first."

[12AngryBorneoWildmen]

5. Yes, yes, yes.

[bulloney]

2. You just listed the Teabaggers' Bill of Rights, spinbaby.

I think you've got them all covered.

[rfranklin]

3. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY...

[Jamaal510]

4. The G0Pee excels at accusing the other side of things they do.

Whether it's comparing Obama to Hitler and calling him a racist, or painting liberals as murderers for favoring abortion rights even though most conservatives favor the death penalty and oppose food safety standards.

[Animal Chin]

7. Yes

I notice lately they are attempting to paint the left as the "intolerant" ones (see chick-fil-a).

[JoePhilly]

9. "You are intolerant if you dare call out my intolerance!!!!"

Standard Tea Party Logic.

They also scream ... "You are a racist if you dare call out my racism!!!"

The tend to project a great deal.

[FSogol]

6. Freedumb!

Freedumb is on the march!

[Blue Meany]

8. When Republicans talk about freedom, they mean

the freedom to trample on the rights of others:

freedom to pollute the air, water and land;

freedom to profiteer, to make money without providing products or services;

freedom to exploit the commons for private gain;

and so forth

[part man all 86]

10. Yes teabillies, I know a place that fits your definition of freedom.

A place that you can say what you want.
A place that has no taxes.
A place where you are not forced to buy insurance.
A place where climate change is a hoax.
A place where science is scorned.
A place that believes in lies over truth.
A place run by a very old conservative.

Hell.

One catch, you cannot leave it once there.

[n2doc]

11. Repubs are about freedom TO, Democrats are about freedom FROM

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.

The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.

The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world.

The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.

The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt

[longship]

13. The Four Freedoms!!

One of FDR's best speeches.

Thanks for posting that.

[Chorophyll]

15. Yes. Thank you. nt

[bhikkhu]

12. Freedom, to a Republican, means "White Male Privilege"

Even the kinder natures in the party who enjoy the idea of giving similar freedoms to women and minorities, essentially they look at it as theirs to give, or to take away.

[Chorophyll]

14. You've nailed it.

Well done. K&R.

[Ian_rd]

16. I heard a good opinion that right-wingers see freedom as a "zero-sum" game ...

I wish I could give credit, but I can't remember where I heard it. But the gist of it is that if, say, women win the right to vote, then somehow the right-wingers feel like some of their own freedom has been taken away for it to happen. Or if gays can marry, then somehow right-winger marriages suffer as a result. Or if Hispanics can be protected from profiled traffic stops, then some freedom must have been taken from right-wingers for this to pass. Or if Muslims are allowed to build a mosque, then their own religious freedom is somehow is infringed.

This really seems to ring true to understand why they get so pissed off when someone different from them is allowed to do something that they typically enjoy exclusively.

[TahitiNut]

19. The reich-wing is trapped in a "zero-sum" mentality.

For them to be successful, others must be unsuccessful. For them to have a job, others must be jobless. For them to have a home, others must be homeless. For them to have civil liberties, others must be denied civil liberties. For them 'win' a war, others must 'lose' a war. What they don't seem to comprehend is that there's only "win-win" or "lose-lose" in social dynamics. War is the most obvious. Nobody "wins" a war. Everyone loses in a war. Nonetheless, we're totally awash in the false meme of "win the war." The GOP has gone MAD ... Mutually Assured Destruction. Their failure to comprehend the underlying tenet of MAD during the Cold War (that war is "lose-lose&quot led the to adopt it as a "good idea" and declare wars on every social front -- reproduction, civil rights, economics, and even voting. (Yes, Voter ID is just one more example.)

[BarbaRosa]

17. I've long felt the motto of the right is,

"How dare you do to us what we do to you, it's unfair, illegal, and we just will not stand for it!"

[LeftishBrit]

18. There is an Australian playground rhyme, of all things, which just about sums up the nature of right

libertarianism.

'Australia is a free land
Free without a doubt.
If you haven't any dinner,
Then you're free to go without.'

[DaveJ]

20. They are like dogs who want more freedom for their owners

And if you look at it, their logic meets the same criteria. 'We need them to survive.' 'They are good people'. 'They provide for us.' Cons have the feeling they can't accomplish anything n their own, so they need their masters to provide everything.

[handmade34]

21. too often, talk

of freedom gives license to disrespect and avoid responsibility to the whole of society... sure doesn't make for a healthy society/community...

freedom is different things to different people

"...freedom is just another word for nothin' to lose
nothing ain't worth nothin' if it ain't free..."

[Mojorabbit]

22. Well I think this from today qualifies...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014187587
Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping

Source: Wired

The federal government may spy on Americans’ communications without warrants and without fear of being sued, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a decision reversing the first and only case that successfully challenged President George W. Bush’s once-secret Terrorist Surveillance Program.

“This case effectively brings to an end the plaintiffs’ ongoing attempts to hold the executive branch responsible for intercepting telephone conversations without judicial authorization,” a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote.

[JHB]

23. Freedom for the most ruthless, most dishonest, most avaricious...

...to do whatever they want with everyone else.

"Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb" was a joke, not a philosophy.

[eridani]

24. The freedom to shit in the reservoir n/t