Democrats’ campaign to redefine the word “freedom”

Democratic presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris used the word “freedom” 11 times in a campaign speech this week, emphasizing, as she does again and again, a woman’s “freedom to make decisions about her own body.”

According to ABC News and The New Yorker, it’s the latest example of Democrats trying to appropriate the word “freedom.” The New Yorker explains: “Democrats’ years-long effort to take back power is reaching a climax in this year’s presidential race.”

It really takes some courage for Democrats to try to turn their usual proposals into “freedom” not just on abortion and voting, but also on gun control, climate and LGBT issues. In reality, Democrats are aiming to restrict our First and Second Amendment rights and more.

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Harris has made “freedom” the theme of her campaign. She says the word often in her speeches. The song in their campaign is “Freedom” by Beyoncé. The word “freedom” appears 24 times in the topic section of her campaign website. In her first campaign video and in her speech at the Democratic National Convention, she emphasized freedom.

“Many fundamental freedoms are at stake in this election,” Harris’ campaign website says. Harris and his Minnesota lieutenant governor, Tim Walz, “will always fight for the freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live free from the pollution that is fueling the climate crisis,” their campaign website says.

The political section of Harris’s presidential campaign website makes no mention of our most important freedoms enshrined in the First Amendment – the “free exercise” of religion, “freedom of speech or of the press” (former President Donald Trump’s campaign did). Someone should tell Democrats that these are the top bill of rights for a reason.

Walz said he sees “no guarantee of free speech” when it comes to misinformation and hate speech. However, such speech is constitutionally protected, otherwise the government would be able to regulate what is acceptable speech and could suppress dissent or label information it doesn’t like as “misinformation.”

The better approach is to allow freedom of expression but have open debate and condemn hate speech. We saw the alternative: The Biden-Harris White House pressured Big Tech companies to censor Americans over their views on COVID-19. In 2019, Harris called on then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to suspend Trump’s account.

If Harris wins the election, Americans likely won’t have the freedom to use correct pronouns. The Biden-Harris administration wants to make it a civil rights violation for someone to use scientifically accurate pronouns that conflict with the preferences of a gender-confusing person.

For Democrats, “reproductive freedom” is the freedom they most want to defend. The verbal forced marriage of “reproductivity” and “freedom” is another stretch. No matter how hard they try, reproduction, even through in vitro fertilization, cannot be separated from its many consequences – such as the conception of children. This is pure science.

In the presidential debate, Harris used the word “freedom” only in reference to abortion. “I will be a president who protects our fundamental rights and freedoms, including a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body and not have the government tell her what to do,” Harris said (she agrees). that the government tells you what to do). on a variety of other topics).

But the freedom to abort an unborn child is not real freedom. In a truly free society, one person cannot be free to take away another’s freedom. An unborn child is not a part of a woman’s body or property – it is an independent human being with its own rights. When a woman takes the life of an unborn child, she deprives her of the most basic of rights.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign website actually recognizes 1st Amendment freedoms. FILE: Trump greets the crowd during halftime of a game between the South Carolina Gamecocks and the Clemson Tigers at Williams-Brice Stadium. (Jeff Blake-USA TODAY Sports)

Harris twists the word even further, saying she wants to defend “freedom of choice.” But that doesn’t apply to Democrats any more than it does to Republicans. Both sides want to enact election laws that favor their party. But Republicans want to make our election system more secure.

In fact, the Democrats have taken away the freedom of their own voters in this presidential election. It is the Democratic Party that ousted its incumbent, prevented a real primary and fought every independent challenger. The Democrats also did not give the Republicans freedom of choice. Democrats, along with other lawmakers, have made claims to bar Trump from the vote.

Harris says she will also “defend the freedom to openly love who you love.” The reality is that she will exercise parental rights.

Her first campaign video shows crowds waving Pride flags as Harris says, “We choose freedom.” But the LGBT community is anything but closed – Pride parades often feature half-naked adults in public in front of children .

Conservatives want the freedom to protect their children from ideologies that contradict their beliefs, including sexually explicit books that are inappropriate for children. Democrats mistakenly refer to these efforts as “book bans,” but by that logic, movie ratings are “movie bans” because young children are not allowed to see R-rated films.

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Under a Harris government, women will not be free. She will not defend women’s right to keep biological men out of their restrooms, locker rooms, sporting events, or sororities.

Harris would restrict the Second Amendment, yet her campaign puts gun control in the light of freedom: “As president, she will not stop fighting so that Americans have the freedom to live safely from gun violence in our schools, communities and places.” Adoration .”

If Harris wins the election, Americans likely won’t have the freedom to use correct pronouns. The Biden-Harris administration wants to make it a civil rights violation for someone to use scientifically accurate pronouns that conflict with the preferences of a gender-confusing person.

Harris’ promises of freedom and joy (another of her themes) sound as empty as former President Barack Obama’s campaign for “hope and change.” The Democrats want to impose more government control on Americans, including through expensive and ineffective economic and environmental policies.

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Republicans also want clean air, but recognize that more environmental regulations cost Americans money in the form of higher energy, housing and other costs. Energy independence prevents funding of foreign authoritarian governments.

Yes, Democrats believe in the “freedoms” of abortion, LGBT existence, and voting without ID — but they don’t believe in First and Second Amendment rights, a woman’s right not to have men in women-only rooms , parental rights, etc. Energy independence.

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