Can We Be Free Without Free Thought?

Land of the free occupied by media zombies who try to saturate our brains with their preferred versions of B.S. Politicians who quack endlessly about their righteous beliefs and pronounce them as truths. We the quagmire of people who open our ears to this mindless menagerie of 24 hour propaganda without batting an eye and seemingly accepting one viewpoint or another without critical thought. Or closing our minds to all this babble without thinking at all. Can we be free without free thought?

The framers of a our Constitution, all thirty nine of them, comprised of thinking male gentry from different walks of life created a document that requires thoughtful consideration and life long analysis. Read it again if you haven't done so lately and think about the relevance of the words for today. Read the Bill of Rights and all the other amendments to our Constitution and consider how thoughtful humans considered the shortcomings of the original Constitution and amended it to fit the times and growth of independent thinking. True political leaders staked their political futures by advocating changes that included the right to vote to women, and citizens of all colors, both ignored by the original framers of our Constitution as was slavery.

We have traveled a long distance since July 1, 1971 when the 26th Amendment to our Constitution was ratified that gave the vote to any 18 year old citizen who was already eligible to be drafted to serve and die for our country in times of war. We as a nation recognized the hypocrisy of our own Constitution and fixed it.

Today we are faced with similar life and death issues and hypocrisy concerning the availability of health care for all our citizens. Perhaps a constitutional amendment is needed just as for the right of all citizens to be free and to vote at an age when they are called to die in wars. Are not all citizens entitled to health care if for no other reason than to keep us healthy enough to fight the wars we are sent to fight by the politicians we elect? They occupy Congress and the Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats seem to believe that we have the duty to die in wars but not the right to have health care that they give themselves with our taxes.

And many of us seem to accept this bunk without thought. Can we be free without free thought? Seemingly we can be free to die without health care so why not be free to reject the call to die in a war as well? Think about this paradox and then decide to support universal health care for all citizens. We have the right to free thought so use your mind to decide what is right.