Please read Paul Krugman's op/ed today because it goes deeper into the American right's perversion of the idea of "freedom," as exemplified by the High Plains Moocher Cliven "Hoof" Bundy episode. Here's Krugman's seminal observation (to whet your appetite to read more):
"... the Bundy fiasco was a byproduct of the dumbing down that seems ever more central to the way America’s right operates."
