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.
@protecttruth Stongly agree.
I have often though that a lot of our problem stem from a pun on "free" in the phrase "free markets":
Economists rightly want free markets, meaning markets that are so regulated that free competition takes place, to the advantage of consumers.
But right-wingers have so captured the media that we have been brainwashed into thinking that free markets means markets that are free from regulation.
(Which leads to monopoly, and wealth consolidation.)
Eric Blair
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