How do you define freedom?

There’s so much going on right now. It can feel like a tsunami. Politics is on many people’s minds, but not because they want it to be on their mind. For many people, politics evokes fear, uncertainty, anger, and more.

I’ve mentioned this before, but I think it’s appropriate to mention it here again — I have a long background in politics. I used to be a Republican. But that’s going back almost two decades ago at this point. The last time I was registered as a Republican was in 2006. (I did have a brief stint as a Republican again in 2016 — just long enough to vote in the primary and then re-register as non-partisan).

I don’t really identify with either party, which is why I’m registered non-partisan. Some of that is because of my own experience with politics. I don’t trust political parties and I don’t have a positive view of them. They exist for two things — to raise money and to get their candidates elected. And political parties operate on one core value — whatever it takes to win elections. Which means they will change positions as needed and throw anyone under the bus if it serves the main goal. Is that cynical? I don’t know. It’s what I have observed.

So much of the political conflict in our nation comes down to a few basic things really. One of those is how we define freedom. We have one end of the political spectrum which defines freedom as the freedom to impose. That’s what Project 2025 is all about — imposing a set of beliefs and morals on everyone, regardless of what you think about it. Of course we…