fnsgreen

Freedom does not mean NO regulating, freedom means SELF-regulating. To be free to speak, I have the right to decide where and what I wish to say. I am given the RESPONSIBILITY to evaluate what needs to be said and make a JUDGEMENT choice on what to say. If enough people are irresponsible or make poor judgements, that freedom will have to be taken away - usually with broad consensus. This is a free country, we are given many responsibilities, but we are loosing some freedoms every decade by consensus. It's our duty to be responsible with our freedoms and to teach others the same.

There is more and more a lack of responsibility to act as representatives and govern. We elect these representatives who's greater concern is to win an argument then to lead a country. WE ELECT representatives so that WE CAN WIN AN ARGUMENT AND NOT TO LEAD. Polarization has made us loose focus.

This is the scary part of our losing our freedom. We are empowered with the freedom to elect representatives for our governance. If we (and our representatives) continue to be irresponsible and make poor choices, we will loose THAT freedom also, and it will be done BY BROAD CONSENSUS. Again, it's our duty to be responsible with our freedoms and to teach others the same.