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Oct 7, 2021

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America, Land of the Freek

How can the ideals of freedom and democracy become so perverted?

Painting by Hieronymus Bosch. Courtesy Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The rest of the world now looks on America as not the land of the free but as the land of the freak. So many Americans are neurotically concerned about their “freedoms,” I tweaked the word to “freek” for the title.

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