I recently received a comment on a post of mine about the John William Pope Civitas Institute. The comment was by someone identifying themselves at "tatertot" with no listed blog or website. The comment is rather disturbing on a couple levels. First, they questioned:

Why tell people to get involved in politics?

Most people would prefer to go about their lives, work hard, earn their money, and take care of their families. However, those who want to take that hard-earned money ARE active in politics. Those who do want to tell you what to do ARE the ones on the left who are protesting and not working, and trying to take things away from you.

So people need to be encouraged to be more active because if we can get a few more people who want to be left alone running government, many more people would actually GET left alone, and freedom would increase greatly.

The second question was much worse:

It's a free country. If people don't want to get involved they shouldn't.

This is the type of "freedom" that exists in Marxist and socialist countries -- you have the right to be free as long as you do what you're told. What sort of freedom exists if people cannot suggest anything? What kind of freedom do you have when you are not supposed to question government?

In this person's view of a "free" country, you should not have the freedom to suggest ideas to anyone. That's not freedom, tatortot, that's totalitarianism.

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