"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny." — President Abraham Lincoln, April 18, 1864, Baltimore Sanitary Fair.

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names, liberty and tyranny." — President Abraham Lincoln, April 18, 1864, Baltimore Sanitary Fair.

This quote from Abraham Lincoln is especially relevant to America today. Just as then, the first Republican president took on the Democrat Party and their delusional and contradictory definition of the word liberty. Our nation went to war to honor and preserve the true meaning of individual liberty. In America today, we are confronting the very same issue of the true definition of liberty, for which Lincoln delivered an accurate, concise exegesis that is relevant for today. It is vital that in this coming midterm election cycle, we clarify this delineation once again. The Marxist message is one of "free," but it is imperative to understand that free does not equal freedom.

I will give it to the American Marxists who, in the deep bowels of some basement, in their pajamas eating Cheerios, came up with the word "affordability." If there is something........

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