I increasingly think that “freedom” is the most important word to take back from the fascists.
In rightwing hands, freedom often means
“no rules to allow billionaires to accumulate all the profits and power” or “privatize and destroy societal services” — schools to healthcare.
Real freedom is freedom from want, freedom to pursue happiness without worry about healthcare bankruptcy and with good schools for all.
Not just that.
Rightwingers have frikkin’ MASSIVE entitlement issues.
They really do think that being rightwingers means the rest of us owe them something [1]—
for example, the president of THEIR choice, whether he lost his election or not.
(Entitlement is also the underlying ethos of racism and sexism—two other rightwing characteristics.)
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[1] A big part of its appeal —esp for those who’re too lazy/irresponsible to own their part in their own problems.
Eric Blair
MollyNYC