The American Ideal Of Freedom

The U.S. government has bloomed into an extremely invasive party on the lives of American citizens. This “big brother,” who watches over and regulates our every move, masks itself as a democracy. We Americans take stride as if we’re living it large with a freedom unknown to the rest of the world. However, our country is not run “by the people, for the people” as President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address claims. On the contrary, Americans live in a nation under the false presumption that we are indeed free. The U.S. government has done a tremendous job of brainwashing it’s own citizens by shouting empty promises during the birth of the country. The American ideal of freedom was defined by those who would be in power as the elite. Thus, we truly believe that we are free and powerful as the few elite are the puppetmasters of our lives. Only a mastermind could generate such a deceitful political system. Throughout American history, the government put harsh rules and regulations on its citizens while declaring that that is what freedom tastes like. And of all things that freedom could taste like, it’s mayonnaise. The FDA recently directed its attention to a vegan mayonnaise brand for restricting federal regulations. It is terrifying that we have let our governmental system have as much authority as to be able to tell us what we can and can’t eat. Instead of allowing citizens the freedoms in which they were promised, the elite that compose the government oversee their every move and every bite. In what way is that freedom?

Instead of allowing the American government to be a distant but ever-so-present “big brother,” we Americans should fight for what we were promised in the wake of our country and redefine what it means to be free. Until U.S. citizens take action, we will continue to live under a government controlled not by us, but them.