The America we grew up in is responsible for the America we live in.
We sat on our couches drinking beer, watching meaningless sportsball games while a cancer metastasized throughout the entire country. When we had thousands of chances to disinfect the sick, festering rot right under our noses, we did nothing.
The few people who were doing something, the one or two people standing outside of an abortion clinic with signs begging women not to kill their children, you didn't pick up a sign and stand beside them... all the way until some states are even considering allowing post birth abortions.
When that one God fearing man went to a faggot pride parade and said, "This is sick degenerate filth", you covered your face in embarrassment instead of standing beside him... and now we have trans storytelling time in classrooms across the nation.
When our politicians started to erode our second amendments rights we said "Who needs a rocket launcher anyways?"... Until you can't own a weapon with more than ten rounds in a magazine in some states.
I could go on and on and on and on and on.
Freedom isn't something you get as a trophy and put on a shelf and say "Yay, I have freedom now!"
Freedom is a valuable and complex machine that requires constant maintenance, vigilant watchfulness and constant, sometimes violent, protection.
Rather than doing any of that we sat there and let them take that machine apart bit by bit while saying "Well... Freedom doesn't really need ALL of those parts to run. They can have some of them and it will still be freedom."
The America we grew up in is responsible for the America we live in.
We sat on our couches drinking beer, watching meaningless sportsball games while a cancer metastasized throughout the entire country. When we had thousands of chances to disinfect the sick, festering rot right under our noses, we did nothing.
The few people who were doing something, the one or two people standing outside of an abortion clinic with signs begging women not to kill their children, you didn't pick up a sign and stand beside them... all the way until some states are even considering allowing post birth abortions.
When that one God fearing man went to a faggot pride parade and said, "This is sick degenerate filth", you covered your face in embarrassment instead of standing beside him... and now we have trans storytelling time in classrooms across the nation.
When our politicians started to erode our second amendments rights we said "Who needs a rocket launcher anyways?"... Until you can't own a weapon with more than ten rounds in a magazine in some states.
I could go on and on and on and on and on.
Freedom isn't something you get as a trophy and put on a shelf and say "Yay, I have freedom now!"
Freedom is a valuable and complex machine that requires constant maintenance, vigilant watchfulness and constant, sometimes violent, protection.
Rather than doing any of that we sat there and let them take that machine apart bit by bit while saying "Well... Freedom doesn't really need ALL of those parts to run. They can have some of them and it will still be freedom."