Personal Responsibility Of Freedom In The United States

Freedom is “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without restraint.” To have freedom is to have to right to do whatever you want to, basically. The most prominent example of freedom would be the freedom of the citizens in their country. In the United States, we practice our freedom everyday with our freedom of religion, speech, and press. Freedom has allowed the citizens of the United States luxuries that a large portion of the world does not have. Because of this freedom, we are allowed independence, which requires us to take personal responsibility for our actions. Many people want freedom, but because of independence, don't want to take personal responsibility for their actions.
An example of this “freedom-without-responsibility” idea is the american politics. In America, we have the right to choose our own president through democracy. The american people get to vote on whichever candidate that we like. The votes are tallied and whomever the most voted-for candidate is gets to be the president. This seems like a great example of the american people exercising their freedom through a fair, polite system of voting, but that is not always the case. In America, not all of the citizens are required to vote. For example, in the

Here we are in America, a country build on the ideals that everyone has the right to be free and vote for their leader, and almost half of Americans don't vote? That like taking everything that every american soldier has fought to protect and flushing it down the toilet! What is even more intriguing is that 62% of the american people said that they have “always not supported Barack Obama and his policies.” If 100% of the american people had voted on that November day in 2012, President Obama would not have been elected and then 62% of americans would be more accepting of our president. Talk about not taking personal responsibility of your actions because of