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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight thinks Left surrendering all freedom to authoritarian government in exchange for free love.
What do conservatives think of liberals today??itok=NT1ApqGL
Heres the view from the Heritage Foundation: Liberalism creates self-indulgent, licentious hedonists willing to cede every other kind of freedom to an increasingly authoritarian government.
Give up your economic freedom, give up your political freedom, and you will be rewarded with license, said Heritages David Azerrad, describing the reigning philosophy of the left. Its all sex all the time. Its not just the sex itselfits the permission to indulge.
Liberals, said editor Bill Voegeli, want to create the United States of Feeling Good About Ourselves.
Whats more, they think that those who disagree with them ought to imprisonednot to be debated, to be locked up on criminal charges and imprisoned, said the National Reviews Kevin Williamson, citing stray calls from the left to arrest climate change deniers.
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Right thinks Left surrendering all freedom to authoritarian government in exchange for free love. (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2014
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)1. No shit. I got accused of being in Madison for the "free love" back in early 2011. If only.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)2. Well, they gotta lot of talent, but they fail to see...
They pay for their's, get mine for free.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)3. This is a classic case of the RWNJ pot calling the lefty kettle black
Projection at its best. The right-wing elite are masters at accusing liberals of their own authoritarian bent.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)4. Projection.
Except for the fact that they have to pay for "love."
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)5. Lets get something straight....
THERE IS NO BIGGER AUTHORITARIAN MINDSET THAN TELLING PEOPLE WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH THEIR OWN BODIES, WHO THEY CAN LOVE AND MARRY, AND STATE SANCTIONED MURDER.
surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)6. I'm not quite sure just what sort of ...
... "economic freedom" and "political freedom" they think they are protecting. The "freedom" to starve on the streets and the "freedom" to be denied a vote hardly qualify.