Freedom

Lately, Donald Trump in rally remarks keeps mentioning communism attempting to align that ideology with Vice President Harris and Governor Walz.  I have found this attempt at sleight of hand ironic given that a definition of communism is the absence of individual and societal freedom. The current iteration of the Republican Party, headed by Donald Trump, is the anti-freedom party as they have wildly supported grave restrictions of women to have bodily and economic freedom; to restrict citizens to have freedom to vote; and have unequivocally placed idolatry above country. 

In Bobbie Kennedy’s Day of Affirmation speech that he gave on June 6, 1966 in Cape Town, South Africa, he said, “And the denial of freedom, in whatever name, only strengthens the very communism it claims to oppose.” 

Millions this past week watched VP Harris accept the nomination to run for President of the United States. She stood below a banner declaring freedom to be the central commitment of her platform and that of the DNC. She warned citizens that our fundamental freedoms are at stake. 

This November 5th, the vote you cast or fail to cast directly influences these freedoms:

Freedom to control the decisions about one’s body. 

Freedom to vote. 

Freedom to love who you love “openly and with pride.”

Freedom to express one’s gender without the fear of harm or death. 

Freedom to live in peace—free from gun violence. 

Freedom to read what you want without government ordering the removal of books from schools and libraries. 

Freedom to live on a clean planet. 

Donald Trump would have us believe that freedom is best served by electing an autocrat. He has repeatedly claimed he knows best and that only he can solve what ails us. This is the starting utterance of every autocracy.

This contest between freedom with its responsibilities, and autocracy with its gross limitations of citizens’ freedoms couldn’t be clearer. 

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