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by versale 1839 days ago
> 53% of Americans think a good government should favor the freedom of its citizens over the safety of its citizens.

Again they don't bother to define what freedom is. Whereas the young people know first hand that "It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper." (c)