The Price of Freedom: What the West Has Forgotten

Last time I left America, I became a self-proclaimed communist. I thought I was a real socialist, a die-hard one, fighting for the cause. In hindsight, I realize that I am still unsure what that cause was, but it didn’t matter because I fought for a cause, and that’s what really matters.

I wanted equality and to fight the rich because I’ve never been a fan of the upper class. After spending time in America, I really despised the easygoing, materialistic and meaningless kind of lifestyle where everything is private and no one shares any personal information, comfort, or warmth with one another. So, as a Kibbutznik who grew up working on farms, I naturally grew up supporting the hard working middle class.

But then, after living in the Czech Republic and experiencing how a post-communist society tries to grow out of its communist trauma, I also learned how Democrats around the world today are fooling their own people. How they only stand up for trending issues and neglect other, less popular ones, like the famine in Yemen, the atrocities committed by Islamist militias in Sudan and Congo, and how they have forgotten about Ukraine. How their opinions and words are copy-pasted from one mouth to another, and especially how they completely dismiss and even despise the working and middle classes and farmers.

I also noticed how even liking your own country became something taboo, or a right-wing thing, and I don’t like inconsistency. Because even Obama and other old-school Democrats used to love their country and even stand up against illegal immigration.

Yep. You heard right.

Here’s a few insights I had from New York last week: New York feels like a playground, like an escape from the real world, like a material escape from suffering. And while most of the migrants who came here escaped socialist and communist regimes, New Yorkers still voted for a socialist mayor.

The Jews and Poles who fled the Nazis and Stalin’s Soviet Union, the Chinese who escaped Mao, the Venezuelans who escaped Maduro, the Iranians who escaped the Ayatollah, the Cubans who escaped Guevara and Castro, and the Syrians who escaped Assad — all those millions of refugees bought a one-way ticket to capitalist and free America to start from scratch in a free society where freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of voting, and economic freedom are practised.

They all got a one-way ticket and left their families and friends behind because of political movements that started out as “socialist” movements and ended up as authoritarian regimes, exactly like Stalin’s and exactly like Hitler.

Once you give the state too much control, it’s over before you know it.

New Yorkers are still very naive, and unfortunately, the Muslim Brotherhood has cracked the code on how to seize systemic power. They’ve simply learned how to speak to the intellectuals of the upper classes who own the institutions but know nothing about the Muslim Brotherhood or political Islam’s expansionist ambitions (look at the map and count the 57 Muslim-majority countries).

They appoint Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed to frame themselves as “progressives” and teach them how to speak well before spreading their religion to the West, just as they did in Africa and the East.

The same people who fall for that political correctness are too busy to ask themselves how a Muslim leader can support the Muslim community on one hand while standing up for trans rights on the other. This is, in itself, a red flag because you know he’s lying to one side, as both positions cannot coexist with one another. Every single Muslim society on the planet prohibits gay rights, not to mention trans rights, while every progressive society fights patriarchy and theocracy, which are, for the most part, how Muslim societies function.

But it’s fine, I guess this is all a natural process. Every society goes through its own cycles, and sometimes people need to experience the consequences of their beliefs before they begin to question them.

New York is a liberal bubble, and it works, just like Berlin, so I don’t blame the Democrats because, for now, this is all they know. They think they can trust just about everyone, but the moment they realize that not everyone is a liberal like themselves, they’ll turn red. That’s why most veterans are Republicans. That’s why political refugees are Republicans. That’s why the lower classes are Republicans: because they’ve learned that, in order to survive in this world, you need to protect what’s good. They’ve learned that freedom is not free. And I have learned that the biggest problem with liberals is that simply not everyone is a liberal.

The irony here is that the majority of Republicans and Democrats in America want the same thing: freedom, individual rights, and to live in a free society. But while the Democrats have learned how to appeal to young people through politically correct rhetoric, Republican candidates have failed to find a young, charismatic voice who can speak to younger generations about the beauty and uniqueness of America and its traditions, and about the risks of the Muslim Brotherhood, jihad, the IRGC and Sharia law. This is absolutely crucial, as it seems that Western societies have become so accustomed to freedom, prosperity and security that they sometimes forget what it took to achieve them — and what can happen when those freedoms are taken for granted.