Misinformed and Misled: How a Distorted Perspective of Rights Is Leading America into Tyranny, Part 3
From Liberty to an Entitlement Mentality: The Deadly Enticement of Government Help
5/27/16
President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address—a presentation that later became widely known as the “Four Freedoms Speech”—is a great place to learn that two kinds of rights exist. To secure some rights, government needs primarily to stay out of the way and not hinder people’s activities or seek to influence them. Yet to secure others, government has to get involved in and even has to interfere in people’s lives. This thwarts the rights it can maintain only by staying out of the way. If this doesn’t make sense, it will. Let’s open a time capsule from 1941 and unpack some important lessons for today!
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