Our time is a precious commodity that is being leveraged against us. Having to be constantly busy working in order to survive and be accepted as a hard working individual worthy of success is a failure of our society not an accomplishment. It doesn’t make us better or more successful, it is, in fact, a detriment, and is in fact weakening our society.

Nobody should be treated as less than because they differ in their beliefs or opinions. We are all people and we should all be treated with respect.

Historically, regular people didn’t have much of a say in how their governments ran their lives. However, democracy changed that. It gave regular people the ability to make decisions regarding how the government could work for them. This is why voting matters.

We the people are the government. Not only do we make up the government, but we also fund it with our tax dollars. As such it is not wrong to expect that the government does more to assist the general population. What else should a government be doing if not working for the people?

As people living together in the same country, we should all be able to rely upon our rights and our freedoms being protected regardless of which state we happen to physically be located in. Our freedoms should not disappear just because we move from one place to another. This is why we need to have federal protection of our rights to ensure that they are not so easily disregarded.

Religious liberty does not mean that one’s religion gives one the right to discriminate with impunity. And it does not mean that the government must allow discrimination in order to protect religious liberty.

Why hate those that are different from you? Is it because you are stressed and you need someone to blame? But if you are stressed because of financial insecurity, then how will hating those different from you actually make your life more financially secure and thus easier?

In history and in literature we root for the hero that acts with kindness, strength, and empathy and yet currently we accept leaders who are unquestionably rude, obnoxious, and disrespectful. How do we expect to succeed with leaders whose behaviour is worse than what is expected from children?

Even though many inventions have made our lives easier, we still seem to be constantly busy. We don’t have the time to just enjoy life and live. Instead we have been deceived into believing that every waking moment must be packed with stuff to do otherwise we are lazy. Why is this?

Antitrust is a necessity to maintain a free, competitive market because it prevents one entity or a select group from monopolising it. When the market is decentralised and the power dispersed amongst many, the market can regulate itself via supply and demand, thus ensuring reasonably priced, quality goods, safety and fairness for consumers, protections for small businesses, as well as spurring innovation for the future benefit of the entire society.

When we realize that all people, regardless of race, religion, culture, etc, have the same basic goals and desires in life, then we realize that there is no need to worry about being replaced. We understand that we all want a fair and just society that applies equally to everyone, so it shouldn’t matter who is in charge if we are all striving for the same outcome.

Keeping up with the Joneses only makes us more miserable. We falsely believe that if we can just have what someone else has, our lives will be better, but this is not the case. There will always be more things to have and we’ll never be satisfied. This lack of satisfaction leads us to despise those less fortunate than us. Leading to an endless destructive cycle of hate, jealousy, and misery.

Should one’s freedom outweigh someone else’s? Of course not. When we fail to balance our individual interests, thus allowing inequality, everyone’s freedoms will diminish. The only way to maintain our American ideal of freedom is to use it responsibly.

Guest Post by Dan Olson regarding celebrating or not the Fourth of July.

Pitting the privacy rights of a woman against the potential rights of a fetus has always been a terrible idea and causes both sides of the abortion debate to lose. Instead both sides should join together and realize the fight should not be to overturn Roe and criminalise abortion, but instead to force the government to address the underlying causes for abortion in the first place and regulate in those areas. Only this will succeed in drastically reducing abortions, while also maintaining a woman’s privacy rights and reproductive freedom.

What did the founders intend for ourselves and our government? The Declaration of Independence lays out the ideals that they believed in and this should be our guiding light in determining how our government, at all levels, functions.

Originalism is the idea that interpreting the Constitution should be done by only examining the text, meaning, and ideas at the time it was ratified. This does not make sense and is in general a very bad idea.

Should courts be political? Would our constitutional rights remain protected by courts led by partisan judges?

Why must students go into debilitating debt in order to obtain the necessary education for entering the workforce, even while not fully preparing students? Why is this the accepted system? Can we do better?

What is the meaning of patriotism? Can you be patriotic while still acknowledging the flaws of your country?