The “Freedom” Billionaires & the GOP Are Selling Americans Is Deadly
Will Americans wake up to how bizarre and toxic this rightwing ideology actually is?
What is freedom?
Earlier this week, a group of “freedom fanatics,” shut down the Covid vaccination operation at Dodger Stadium, slowing down the process for hundreds of people before the police stopped them.
They called it an “Anti-lockdown Freedom Rally and March,” saying “We’re not going to stop until we get our freedoms back.”
They’re the same type of folks who argued that New York’s lockdown was an unconstitutional violation of their freedom, and spent much of 2020 proudly refusing to wear masks because “freedom.”
They even occupied the Michigan Capitol with assault weapons because, they said, Governor Whitmer’s efforts to prevent Michiganders from dying of Covid were assaults on their “freedom.”
As NBC reported, that invasion was preceded by months of events like one where: “Dozens of demonstrators took to the Michigan Capitol in Lansing for a rain-soaked protest Thursday — the third such event in the past month — demanding their ‘freedom’…”
Billionaire-funded rightwing groups and the Republicans they own spent most of last year…
