Notable Quote – Mike Adams

This all leads to my belief that I’ve been wrongly defining liberalism for years. I think a new definition of the liberal is in order: A liberal is someone who only wants to be free from the consequences of freedom.  This tendency to seek freedom from the consequences of one’s free choices is seen in a lot of areas of liberal policy making.

- Professor Mike Adams, UNC

I have often said that Progressives want us all to be free from necessity and responsibility.  The problem is that the first means dependence on someone or something else – how can that be called freedom? 

The second, freedom from responsibility, means that not only the costs of bad decisions (from a lack of responsibility for them) is pushed onto everyone else – how is that freedom for the rest of us?  And, having no responsibility still means a dependence on someone else to make "the important decisions" – and how is that freedom for the irresponsible?

Freedom is nice, it is great, but it absolutely requires responsibility on the part of the free man to make decisions and to accept the consequences of those decisions – anything less is to be enslave to someone else.