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Richard Durborow's avatar

Yes empathy and compassion scare both Musk and POTUS. They are both so addicted to power and greed they have no idea how to practice leadership based on mutual trust and cooperation.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Reading On Freedom with my Democrats Abroad book club. We just finished reading Freedom's Dominion by Jefferson Cowie. They are each talking about different concepts of freedom. Cowie talks about the freedom of those who are above others as they see themselves having the freedom to do what they want, and that includes having ownership or dominion over others. What a lot of White men want to return the US to being. Cowie makes a case for enlightened populism.

https://lindaweide.substack.com/p/is-populism-the-way-to-go?r=f0qfn

Snyder is talking about 5 forms of freedom, sovereignty, unpredictability, mobility, factuality, solidarity and ties them to different stages of our lives. I don't think one would connect these words with freedom if one did not read this book. Still, he is making a compelling case that "freedom to," is freedom, not "freedom from" and that freedom has goodness of action in it.

We have just started the book and will be discussing the first 2 chapters this week. The book also tells us that having good government allows children to grow up free, and that is important. We have to understand what good government is in order to have it. Much of what the US has in the way of government I have not felt was good. Too much markets, not enough humanity. Maybe this is a time to switch that as Trump destroys the markets, out of their ashes can rise the people.

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