Today's picnic speechmakers will toss the word "freedom" around like so much salad dressing, shiny and slick. The word is generally meaningless in these parts, except as code for the liberty to drive SUVs and get lots of cheap stuff at Walmart, to live in gated communities, literal and figurative, to lead lives of sloth unimaginable to previous generations, and to eat so much we grow sick with our own fat.
It's an easy freedom, and it calls dissent unpatriotic.
The freedom...
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