What does freedom really mean to you in your every day life?

Question

Do you take it for granted or do you appreciate it consciously and actively? I can't direct the answers, but I would appreciate a general answer from the standpoint of being American, not from the standpoint of which party you are in. Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

I try not to take my freedom for granted. I wake up every morning knowing that I have the right to say what I want, freely practice any religion I choose, and do what I want to.

Answer 2

I travel outside the US about six to eight months a year and although I ***** and moan about politics there I am always glad to be back home. It is home, not just where I live.

My family and I have served and given to protect our freedoms, I would make all of those sacrifices again if I could and were asked to, they mean that much to us.

There is no better country in the world, it is free, it is the strongest in the world, it is compassionate and gives more to help others than half of the remaining countries combined, it has laws that define how we can interact with each other, it has a constitution that restricts (most of the time) congress from becoming oppressive. We are the 800# gorilla and despite the naysayers the world looks to the US for leadership, economically and poltically, they also see us as an easy target as we are naive, wrapped in our nice little blanket of freedom.

I did not like some presidents, I was glad many were out of office, but they were my countries President and while in office I showed appropriate respect.

I do not like COngress and believe it is the cause of many of Americas issues, but they are the duly elected representatives and I will follow and support them until they are out of office, some sooner than later I hope.

I believe we need to change the election process, someone in Congress in another state has as much influence on me as my own representatives do and that is wrong. We are a much larger nation than 230 years ago, and I beleive our representatives have stayed in their RULING position far too long and I will work hard to do soemthing about it.

I can say all of this, here and now, because I am an American, I am free to do this, and that cannot be said for all of the other countries.

Answer 3

We all take freedom for granted, it is second nature to us. We know instinctively that nothing bad should happen to us if we follow the simple rules set out. When we see or read about violence, "terror" or the war, we seem to put it to the side as if it were a video game. It does not exist in our lives, it happens to other people. We talk about it, but few ever really get involved.

Things I do to consciously to appreciate our freedoms is I follow the law. I am blunt about telling the truth, I inform the checker if I am being undercharged and I rarely speed--makes people crazy. I believe everyone has equal rights, no one is above another regardless of who they are.

Actively I keep my Senators emails close at hand, and spout off if they are right or wrong in my opinion. Sure it is just another email to them, but it is your responsibility to tell them and theirs to listen.

Where I fail is being more active in the system. I do volunteer work as many do, but aside from voting I lack the confidence to be politically active. Perhaps this election will be different.

Answer 4

There isn't a day that I don't think of the scrapes I have had with death, while in uniform. That I do not think of my fallen brothers and sisters at arms, where ever they were serving (I saw a shipmate of mine die, btw, while fighting the War on Drugs). Freedom means people who don't come home, so that others may have the best things that this world has to offer, should they desire to take the chance of reaching for those things.

Answer 5

Freedom is the quality of status the American Nation has established through the Constitution. The Govt should be to uphold these concepts not to corrupt them.
What is happening is a shift from the people's vote counting to the Govt w/Military back-up lording over US.
Look up the origen of theCIA or theTavistock.

Answer 6

FREEDOM, a rare commodity in this world, comes with RESPONSIBILITY and a price.
Freedom cannot be an excuse to do whatever you want.
All actions have consequences so what we have with freedom is the potential to direct our own lives, NOT a blank check to do whatever you desire.

Answer 7

i am truly grateful we live in a free society. i am guilty of taking it for granted because i have never experienced being without my freedom. i criticize some of ways that our consumer culture behaves and some of the ways our government behaves, but I can because i live in America.

Answer 8

I wake up every day with pride in our heritage and the good sense of our forefathers.

I welcome the challenges of life and meet them knowing that I am still free to determine my own future based upon my own hard work and making good decisions.

I depend on no one to support me and I like it that way.

You can never really be free as long as you depend on others for your support.

Answer 9

We need to shed this sinister cloak of so called democracy and put back in place our "Constitutional Representative Republic."

Answer 10

As long as the way I live my life isn't interfering with the way you live yours, leave me the hell alone and I'll gladly return the favor.