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  1. Happy Thanksgiving/Channukah. Maybe not the point of the post, but I keep thinking “freedom from want” is a step down the slippery slope towards “guaranteed income.”
    Dirty socialists.

  2. Freedom from want and from fear are not on my list of freedoms. Only the nanny state can attempt to provide (and cannot succeed in providing) those corrupting “freedoms.” And of course FDR was a great nannystater.

  3. I agree that freedom (more accuarately protection) from want and fear are impossible ‘freedoms’. There is no possible guarantee that we shall not want or fear. Under the laws of a just society we are instead required to be responsible to protect ourselves (and our families) from want and fear to the best of our abilities.

  4. In my youth, I can remember plenty of Thanksgivings that agreed with Rockwell’s painting.

    No, it was never universal but it was once the norm.

    And the norm cannot be mere ‘propaganda’.

    What IS propaganda is the left’s incessant claims that the social norms of the past were wildly exaggerated or never even existed.

    The social cohesion that allowed America to respond so magnificently in WWII could never have happened had those ‘imaginary’ norms not existed.

  5. @Geoffrey Britain

    I was watching a “best of” Saturday Night Live and was struck that all of their portrayals of family Thanksgivings were dysfunctional. Sure, they’re going for the funny but I can’t help but think the left sees these gatherings as hotbeds of hostility.
    That may have been the writers’ experience, but I would guess it doesn’t match most Americans’.

  6. Matt,

    The left indeed has that POV, their ideology demands it. I long ago reached that conclusion of Saturday Night Live’s writers, producers and ‘creative artists’. I haven’t watched it since before John Belushi died.

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