The US election: Freedom on the ballot | Timothy Snyder | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- As Election Day approaches, freedom is on the ballot. Trump and Harris offer starkly different visions for the country and what freedom means to them. The question is, which version of freedom will voters pick?
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On GZERO World with @Ian_Bremmer, we're mere weeks away from Election Day in one of the closest and most tumultuous national elections in American history. Both candidates are making their pitches to voters, and show guest, author and historian Timothy Snyder, argues that what they're really pitching are two different versions of freedom. Snyder discusses the election by drawing from his latest book, “On Freedom,” an exploration into how freedom is used-and often misused-in society and politics.
Snyder argues that America would do well to think about freedom in a more positive light, particularly in terms of freedom "to" rather than freedom "from." Freedom "to" vote, to control your own body, to love whom you want." Rather than freedom "from" oppression, for instance. “Freedom is about a future which is better than the present. Freedom is about all the good things that we might know about and all the good things we have yet to discover. It's not about anger, it's not about barriers.”
In taking a bird’s eye view of the many ways freedom can be interpreted, Snyder zeros in on Ukraine. He reflects on how Ukrainians often use the word “de-occupation” instead of liberation, because he believes that freedom is means towards a better future, rather than the end goal. “The word de-occupation reminds you that that is still just the beginning. You have to clear the rubble, and rebuild the playgrounds, and the buses and the trains have to start running again.”
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I’m grateful for Snyder’s philosophical seriousness when many of the rest have succumbed to fecklessness
Freedom to ignore a genocide 😊
I wonder if that is not freedom but privilege... The privilege to ignore genocide vs. the freedom to act in the interest of collective freedom, including the goal to expand the freedom of others' based on the view that freedom should be collective.
Sudan? Syria? Yemen? No?
"Freedom" is just an slogan american politicians use to exhaustion for electoral purposes.
Higher interests that seldon relates to "freedom" are at play when politicians rise to power...
What about forced mobilisation, it's definitely not "freedom from", is it "freedom to" then? What happens if a person looses a limb?
What freedom does they have then? Do you know how much veterans are paid in Ukraine? Is this a freedom?
Interesting times 🌻🌹🗽🇺🇸
A “free experience”: retired with social security (Gov), Medicare (Gov), wandering around campgrounds state-to-state (local, state, fed Gov), on safe highways (Gov) and freely associating with other peaceful campers (citizens, temporary neighbors; multi race, religion, country of origin). The Age of Aquarius is out here! Join us! 😎🤓🙏🏻🇺🇸
I am concerned that "freedom to" involves government wealth redistribution. In principle it's taking from some to give to others. I don't think people should be forced to do that. If they don't want to. I get that it's politically necessary to some degree. But it carries an intrinsic moral issue that "freedom from" does not. Freedom from doesn't require you to take something from anyone to work. It's just requires the government to not tell people how to live their lives.
Freedom from the abuse of private power requires regulation of wealth and social status aka telling someone what to do. Not every tyrant is a government officer.
@@sieda666 the other tyrants generally can't have you put in jail or shot though. The government is a special case in many ways.
@@sieda666 It is THE tyrant (government). They take more and more freedoms and people believe it's to defend 'democracy'. By the time most realize it will be too late...
We live in a oligarchy Harris freedom talk is nothing but throwing gum at the wall to see what sticks.
But she has a semblance of reality, and knows she must produce results, or else.
@alexanderclaylavin HER job as vice president is the border... look at new York from her border policy.. Harris is throwing gum at the wall hoping something sticks.. I am voting Jill Stein myself
As a veteran, I will only vote for candidates that support the rule of law. Harris does, as she has demonstrated as a prosecutor, attorney general and VP. The orange felon does not, as demonstrated by criminal offenses, sexual assault, attacks on confidence in our election systems and attacks on immigrants. 🙏🏻🇺🇸
She is a all out war criminal doing 2 genocides. Voting in Harris is the same as voting for Hitler..
I can't bring myself low enough to vote for a genocidal war criminal and she is going to keep the same policies as Biden.. The administrations are puppets to elites nothing will change
Abortion is clearly freedom from as well. Freedom from the government stopping you from having whatever medical procedures you want. While we're at it on that one, they should legalize most voluntary medical treatments and substances. They need to keep out of people's personal business.
Really thought provoking.
Let's explore (muddy) "freedom" with a little division of "freedom from" and "freedom to". When really, those are the same thing being convoluted with other unrelated "pluralist" concepts. Like, the chickening and the egging.
Look. You people accept unfree society. And this is you justifying it.
Yeap. I lost all respect for snyder
Nice job deleting comments I guess...
Vote BLUE down ballot.
Vote Trump enablers out. All of them.
What about Cheney
You want a one party state.
I will never vote for democrats in my life
@@ericsuarez834 Liz Cheney isn’t running and a vote for her is a vote for Trump.
@@Goldenhour24 But they support Kamala, both her and her father