According to FDR, freedom FROM want and freedom FROM fear are as important as freedom OF speech and freedom OF religion. “Necessitous men are not free men.” - FDR

Jul 26, 2022 · 11:47 AM UTC

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@marwilliamson And yet, we still ended up back in another Gilded Age. How many times do we have to repeat history before we make a change which is permanent and cannot be reversed by the few? This is how we do just that: #DirectDemocracy (the removal of political hierarchy,
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neither 'freedom of want' or 'freedom of fear' appear anywhere in the Constitution. so though admirable they are not as important as freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
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You know who else wasn't free? All the Americans he rounded up and put in camps because of the way they looked.
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Do you have any way to interact with the people who follow you? I don’t necessarily mean personally but with a staff that might assist? I’m not referring to a standard public Twitter response but something that might be related to a project or idea that might have value?
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Freedom from fear is fundamentally an inward initiative. Government can function to provide resources they can lighten citizens’ burdens but this requires a real democracy to make this happen? And citizens in this country are too I’ll-informed and afraid to act!
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We need citizens who are both enlightened and informed in enough quantity and quality to act in their own interest. This would take education and guidance to make citizens competent enough to take charge of government which was the principal purpose of the Founding Fathers.
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He confiscated gold from American citizens on false pretext. To a thinking head that should say it all….
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And in traditional social media, freedom of speech and freedom from fear are very closely linked. That's why we need censorship-free platforms like #Solcial
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This is one of the worst and most damaging ideas to liberty and is in direct conflict with individual liberty. It completely conflates two entirely different concepts of freedom.
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All of these aspects are essential needs of every social human being. Free men do not feel the necessity to feel it, as freedom is not an option. It must be provided by default and I believe that social media networks like #Solcial will bring it to everyone in the long run.