"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -Benjamin Franklin
If you're going to put it in quotes and attribute to him, at least get the quote right. You missed a vital word in your paraphase.
"Those who would give up
essentialliberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
First, essential is a bit of importance there. Second, it seems to at least acknowledge that if there is a disparity in regards to the amount of safety earned in exchange for the limiting of liberty that it may not apply.
hmmm...lets see:
Religion: The Far Left believes that everyone should be free to practice whatever religion they choose...in their homes and in their churches. The Far Right believes that everyone is free to practice evangelical Christianity and that includes forcing the government to include it even in non-religious functions.
Ahhh, good to see DisneyDude out in his true hyper partisan ways. Remember folks "the far left" is mainstream left to Disney and "The far right" is as extreme as possible.
So the
FAR left just wants everyoen free to practice whatever they want. Ignore the large contingent of secularist athiests in the
FAR left that believe that religion must be abolished for reason to win out and that mention of it anywhere outside of the home should be frowned upon. That'd make the
far left sound as extreme as the far right, and god we can't have THAT now can we Disney!?
Gay Rights: The Far left believes that individuals should have the right to marry the one they love and that no one should be denied basic human rights based on sexual orientation.
The far left believes that the government should regulate who people can love and marry and believe that the government should help enforce infringements on civil rights.
Oh look, Disney does it again. Who'd have
EVER imagined. The
Far left just wants poeple to get married and have human rights. We'll not say that some on the
Far left feel that kids should be taught they must experiment to find out what they're sexual preference really is and that we should allow for even wilder types of rights such as the ability to marry animals (go check out women marries dog). Yeah, that's not the mainstream left, but the
far left.
Reproductive Freedom: The Far left believes that the choice to terminate a pregnancy should be made by the mother and her physician. The Far left believes that the Government is in the best position to make that decision
I just
can't believe it, Disney's being a hyper partisan hack AGAIN here. Wow, who'd have imagined. So the
FAR left just wants women and her doctor to make the choice. They don't want 3rd term abortions allowed up to the day before the kid comes out, or government funded abortions, or anything like that...no no no, that may make them sound extreme and
far and we can't have that because the
far left is completely reasonable, unlike those evil rotten far right people.
Economics: The Far left believes that companies that enact policies that benefit American workers should receive incentives for doing so. They believe that companies should be able to make a profit, but not off exploiting the workforce.
The Far right believes that companies should be able to make as much profit as they can, even if it comes at the expense of exploiting workers. Companies are in the best position to regulate themselves because they are inherently "good-willed".
Another
huuuuuge surprise here. Yes, the
FAR left just believes in incentives, that's it. Nothing about believing they should forcefully legislate how much employees, from the bottom to the top, are. Nothing about how they believe multiple industries should be ran by the government instead. Nothing about how anything bad for the environment should be extremely and completely taxed if not banned. Nothing about huge taxes on any kind of stock options. No, no no no, those are
FAR to
extreme to ever be included in a discussion about the
FAR left.
Healthcare: The far left believes that a country as rich as America can find a way to ensure that every citizen is entitled to basic healthcare.
The far right believes that insurance companies and hospitals should remain "for profit" industries and should try to make as much profit as they can to reward their CEO's and shareholders.
Yes, yes that's exactly it. The
FAR left is just here to make sure everyone has healthcare. YIPPPE! We're All Healthy! We can't possibly say the
FAR left is for banning substances that they deem "unhealthy" deciding you can't eat certain kinds of foods anymore or do certain types of activities anymore. Lets not mention the
FAR left would like everyone to be forced to be on this health care, no matter their wealth or ability to own private health care, because that's what'd be most "Fair". Let us ignore that the FAR left would like to take 50% or more of some peoples income to help fund this kind of stuff. No no no, don't say anything extreme about the
FAR left disney, that'd just be intellectually honest of you.
National Security: The far left believe that we should never forfeit our way of life and our values in order to achieve a false sense of security. If we allow terrorists to change our way of life, we have lost our soul as a country.
The far right believe that we should forfeit our values, give government more power over citizen's and change our values and way of life to become more like our enemies so that we can fight them on their playing field.
Yes, lets not say that the
FAR left does not believe we should do anything militarily ever unless we're on the brink of annhiliation and even then its questionable. Lets not say that the far left would like to make it nearly impossible for the government to have a way, legal or no, to do survelliance on any modern technology communication formats.
Yeah....I would say the far right is much more dangerous to the values of America.
Excuse me a moment Disney. There was something stated later on in this thread that is appropriate for that utter and completely disgusting, hyper partisan, absolutely worthless trash that you call your opinion up above.
FTR there is no such thing as the "right wing".
There are those who believe in the concept of limited Government, State's rights, originalism, individual liberty & free-markets, then there is the left-wing who despises all of that.
We weren't the "right wing" until the progressive era came along and the Government/central planning became the savior of all humanity.
Oh come off it, you're as bad as DisneyDude with this bull****. You're not talking about the
far left here but just "left wing" people. Really? So all the Left-Wing
DESPISES capitalism? Cause I know a great deal of left leaning people that positively believe we should remain capitalistic. They all despise individual liberty? I know a great deal that feel very strongly for it, a number of them on this site who are supporters of the 2nd amendment. That bull**** you spewed above was nothing but hyper partisan tripe and frankly you and Disney are more the same then you'd likely want to admit.