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Americans DO NOT WANT freedom or liberty, because Americans DO NOT WANT the responsibility that comes with it.
Instead, we want everyone else or, in some cases, FedGov to take the responsibility that is incumbent upon us to take. And then we are left scratching our heads, and proposing even more dangerous “solutions” to the problem at hand.
I’ll give an example: Article V. As you know, Article V was given to us by the Founders as just one tool to combat Federal overreach. But I have to question, how did we allow that overreach in the first place? That’s an easy answer: We got comfortable. We got complacent. We amassed our toys and our homes & properties and cars and big screen TV’s and we celebrated as we moved up the corporate ladder and, as life began to get more comfortable, we began to get more complacent, slowly giving up so many smaller freedoms, all in the name of ‘security’, or rather, the ability to secure all those “things” we amassed and which make us comfortable and “happy” in life.