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There Are Few Things In Politics More Annoying Than The Right's Utter Conviction That It Owns The Patent On The Word 'freedom' That When Its Leaders Stand Up For The Rights Of Banks To Be Unregulated Or Capital Gains To Be Untaxed, That It Is Actually And Obviously Standing Up For Human Liberty, The Noblest Cause Of Them All.

Most Of Roosevelt's Innovations Have Been The Law Of The Land For 70 Years Now, And Yet We Are Still A Free Society Free Enough, That Is, To Allow Tens Of Thousands Of Protesters To Gather On The National Mall And To Broadcast Their Slogans And Speeches To The World Via C-span.

People Are Born In A Certain Place, And In A Certain Society. I Don't Mean To Sound Like A Determinist, But To Think We're Entirely Free To Do Whatever We Want Betrays A Certain Class Perspective. For Most People Who Have To Work For A Living, And Work At Jobs Under Conditions They May Not Like, It's Just Not Simple When It Comes To Freedom.

Corruption Is Uniquely Reprehensible In A Democracy Because It Violates The System's First Principle, Which We All Learned Back In The Sunshiny Days Of Elementary School: That The Government Exist To Serve The Public, Not Particular Companies Or Individuals Or Even Elected Officials.

I Was Never A Fan Of Barack Obama's Bipartisanship Routine.