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This is an outstanding article. It hits at the heart of the problem with mandates, Obamacare, and progressive liberal ideas in general. Individuals and families should be responsible for themselves first, then neighbors, then private organizations for social good. The government should be the last to intervene.
Ripping away choice and responsibility from individuals and families is detrimental to society. Progressives claim they are compassionate and community oriented. Yet studies show they are the least likely to donate their own money to good causes. Maybe they feel everyone is as selfish with their own money as they are so government has to steal it from those who take responsibility for their lives, families, and communities.
Ever heard of Dahlia Lithwick? No? Don’t feel bad. I hadn’t either until I read her piece of … something or other … on Slate about the Supreme Court hearing this week on Obamacare.
A quick Google search turned up her Wikipedia entry, which tells me she’s a Canadian and contributing editor at Newsweek and senior editor at Slate. In other words, a committed leftist.
This morning in America’s highest court, freedom seems to be less about the absence of constraint than about the absence of shared responsibility, community, or real concern for those who don’t want anything...
Conservatives, however, believe in freedom.
Freedom is a little messier. In a free society people have the right to be wrong. And people who are right retain the right to tell people who are exercising their right to be wrong that they are, indeed, wrong.