I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.
We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two.
Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.
The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.
I cannot possibly understand how fraternity can be legally enforced without liberty being legally destroyed
No ideology is more unacceptable to our way of life than radical Islam. We don't have to live in fear of it. This is an enemy we can defeat.
I would argue that security and liberty, security and privacy are not actually opposing. The only place those can be oppositional is in the realm of rhetoric but not fact.
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.
What they have done, ISIS is very well outspoken about how much they hate our freedom, who we are as Americans.
That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
