Nice take! ;-)

How is the will of the People to form a government if elections are rigged and the voices of the opposition censored from the press?

You are confusing rights with powers, Fred.  Freedom means NOT being regulated by anything other than our own will.  What you are describing is authoritarianism.

Social media is the fettered press of today.  All information vehicles have been targeted for appropriation and propaganda dissemination.  WE the people need to always be discerning and watchful — it is not hard to see once you can make the distinction between acting and reality.  They don't call it television "programming" for nothing — including 'entertainment.'

Yes, please, Mike!  How about a fresh posting about the "statist theocracy that infests this land" for 2022.

Not surprising you don't understand.  Liberty and Socialism are completely incompatible.  I haven't met a socialist yet that values Liberty for anyone else but themselves. 

The socialist does not care for Liberty but for Power.

It's because you are delusional, Fred.

*sigh* The socialists are the grand appropriators of all, constantly laying claim to what is not theirs.  'The Socialist in Nature' does not exist.  While one man can live alone in Nature, a lone socialist cannot and remain a socialist.  A person who takes responsibility for him/herself is not practicing socialism but independence and self-determinism. 

A socialist lives off the taxing of others' labors, takes a portion (sometimes all) of people's property to pay the government to live in better conditions than the governed.  Note that this taxation cannot be refused by the taxed, it is theft and even servitude.

The socialist engineer derives his/her pleasure in playing God — socialists worship their collective power which justifies their every claim. They do not see themselves as thieves because they already claim it as theirs anyway — it's 'their' money and 'their' property because their ideology says so.

The Socialist is a self-deluded, narcissistic nihilist, with an insatiable thirst for lashing out at anyone who has been blessed with (and possibly worked for) more than they.

There is but one simple way to distinguish a socialist from a republican.  Simply answer:

"Who is responsible for the condition and quality of your life?"

You have met those of reasonable sensibilities, but a pickpocket sees only pockets.

Expect the truth to be actively suppressed by those with power...

Sounds like Kamala-speak.  A bunch of platitudes, not really saying anything, no specifics.  

Yep.  It's not difficult to understand — this is a classic tactic.

It's not Climate Change either — it is a CON!!  And the method used by the globalists to lay claim to the Earth and all within it.  It is to rule the world, and there are a LOT of players.  Don't buy it, their aim is to reduce the population and that means YOU and your progeny.  Waffler is one of their biggest advocates.

Very prescient, RBE!  Are we still in denial?

Nailed it!!

Now, you are just trolling...

You wish.

Correction: False

That's ONE idea, Fred.  Do we have a choice as to whether we want to join the Borg or will we be assimilated?

Right then — no more BS.  The naked truth about geopolitics and the lust for power.

Democracy is the herding of dupes by knaves for fun and profit.

Fred, you are channeling Rockefeller:  "Competition is a sin."

Little by little, are you coming to the realization that your philosophy is nothing but another form of authoritarian rule according to you?  No one can play?  No one can compete?  Now I am sure you are alone.  What a miserable existence.  No joy of puppies frolicking, otters swimming, children playing.  No joy of achievement or innovation.  No mastery because someone will be better than someone else at something.  All must be equally bound, labors yoked, "no playing" — a soviet gulag is the end.

I agree that we need to grow up and take responsibility for our lives.  But this is not a burden -- it's a blessing and an opportunity to awaken to what's really happening and our role in it.

Exactly!

The enemies of freedom are not the government, it is the people who do not value their freedom, that have become subservient dependents that obey arbitrary authority — perpetual children.  The 'educated' are the most dangerous.  Confusing Power with Freedom supports the fallacy.

Right on, Carlton!