Open Letter from an American Coward | by Sarah Chamberlain | Dec, 2020 | Medium

Open Letter from an American Coward | by Sarah Chamberlain | Dec, 2020 | Medium

• 
  "I am an 

American, a New Hampshirewoman, a lover of liberty, and a happily married mother of four beautiful children. I have a wonderful life, a bright future, and could not ask for any greater blessing than those I have already received.

• My enemies are
  

in a word, communists. Modern communists do not usually call themselves such. 

They do not talk about workers rising up and seizing the Means of Production.
Instead, modern communists adopt a rhetorical stance where they assume that all people and all property are ALREADY COLLECTIVIZED, then calmly discuss what WE should do:

• What WE should ALLOW people to own.
• What WE should ALLOW people to do.
• What WE should ALLOW people to say.
• How WE should ALLOW people to use their property.
• How WE should ALLOW people to conduct their businesses,
• … and WHO should be ALLOWED,
• … and WHERE.
• How WE should ALLOW people to raise their children.
• Who should be GIVEN which roles within society.
• etc.

The issue under discussion is always something sympathetic, something most decent people would like to see fixed: Intergenerational poverty, police brutality, environmental degradation, bigotry, violence.
But the solutions modern communists put forward are rarely passive, and they are never liberating...Read all!