This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome back.

So I just want to lay out this concept and get your take on this.

I think it's a pretty solid look back to Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson's idea of what

freedom meant versus the Reaganism freedom that we've experienced ever since, basically.

You know, as America's right wing billionaires are hanging out on their giant estates with

their live-in servants giving them instant COVID tests that, you know, pay money doesn't

matter.

They're using the word freedom to describe their lifestyle in the right wing media that

they own or that they support.

The headline over at Newsmax, it was no masking Biden's disdain for freedom.

And one of our red state references, COVID tyranny, bottom line is wealthy right wingers have

been telling this for years to us and a lot of Americans have bought into it that, you

know, socialist programs and protective regulations actually diminish Americans' freedom.

Don't you know?

Freedom works and their followers and the Tea Party said that Obamacare and Medicare

destroyed America's freedom, Reagan told us Medicare would destroy freedom and that

to choose not to have health care and not to get any supporter benefits in the government

when you get sick, that's freedom.

Mitch McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate are refusing to pass a COVID relief bill

right now.

Why?

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