By the time this is published online, we here at The Price of Liberty assume that you’ve already celebrated the day. Hopefully with family and close friends and neighbors, and hopefully without too much stuffing of yourselves with food and drink! And have enjoyed the company and conversation and other activities.
For lovers of liberty, every year, there are many things to be thankful for. Whatever threats, whatever actions that governments and their supporters and advocates have taken in the past year, we still can be thankful for the liberty we do have.
Especially for those who do not celebrate Christmas (at least as a religious holiday) nor Easter (again, at least as a religious holiday), Thanksgiving is the family holiday. (FYI, no one at TPOL treats those festivals as religious holidays.)
We can be thankful that many, many attempts to steal that liberty from us have come to naught in the past year. Not as many as we would like, of course, but many got nowhere.
We can be thankful that, despite many efforts to the contrary, violent war has not again come to the shores, plains, and mountains of the Fifty States. Whether civil war, a new war between the States, or any sort of uprising. And that such warfare has been limited worldwide to relatively small areas.
We can be thankful that we have seen much evidence that the ideals of liberty are shared by more and more people. And for the opportunities to teach more people about liberty and freedom.
Each of us, readers, friends, neighbors, people in our communities, has many things to be thankful for.
Thankful to whom? For those of us who believe in a Creator Who sustains the universe, that is first thankful to God. We believe that we should be thankful all the time, but it always helps to have reminders and time devoted to expressing that thanks.
But we, and all those who do not believe in YHWH, can and should be thankful to many other people around us. To those who provide us goods and services, especially. Even when we pay for those goods and services! Especially when they provide those things with grace, in a professional and compassionate way, and even with a smile.
And we can be grateful to those people who invented and built and maintained all that we have on and around this planet right now. That allows even the poorest Americans to live better than 99.9 percent of every human who has ever lived. And at least 95% of today’s world population live better material lives than 99% of every human in the past. Including those people today who are living under tyranny far worse than Americans endure.
Are things bad? Yes. But we need to remember (as stated by H.U. Westermayer), “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
Our thanks to our readers and correspondents, and to clients and customers, coworkers and volunteers. We bless the Lord for letting you be in our lives.
For those needing more of a Thanksgiving fix from a libertarian perspective, enjoy these links:
From FEE. Why libertarians should give thanks, especially in times like these.
Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.
The Price of Liberty 
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
By the time this is published online, we here at The Price of Liberty assume that you’ve already celebrated the day. Hopefully with family and close friends and neighbors, and hopefully without too much stuffing of yourselves with food and drink! And have enjoyed the company and conversation and other activities.
For lovers of liberty, every year, there are many things to be thankful for. Whatever threats, whatever actions that governments and their supporters and advocates have taken in the past year, we still can be thankful for the liberty we do have.
Especially for those who do not celebrate Christmas (at least as a religious holiday) nor Easter (again, at least as a religious holiday), Thanksgiving is the family holiday. (FYI, no one at TPOL treats those festivals as religious holidays.)
We can be thankful that many, many attempts to steal that liberty from us have come to naught in the past year. Not as many as we would like, of course, but many got nowhere.
We can be thankful that, despite many efforts to the contrary, violent war has not again come to the shores, plains, and mountains of the Fifty States. Whether civil war, a new war between the States, or any sort of uprising. And that such warfare has been limited worldwide to relatively small areas.
We can be thankful that we have seen much evidence that the ideals of liberty are shared by more and more people. And for the opportunities to teach more people about liberty and freedom.
Each of us, readers, friends, neighbors, people in our communities, has many things to be thankful for.
Thankful to whom? For those of us who believe in a Creator Who sustains the universe, that is first thankful to God. We believe that we should be thankful all the time, but it always helps to have reminders and time devoted to expressing that thanks.
But we, and all those who do not believe in YHWH, can and should be thankful to many other people around us. To those who provide us goods and services, especially. Even when we pay for those goods and services! Especially when they provide those things with grace, in a professional and compassionate way, and even with a smile.
And we can be grateful to those people who invented and built and maintained all that we have on and around this planet right now. That allows even the poorest Americans to live better than 99.9 percent of every human who has ever lived. And at least 95% of today’s world population live better material lives than 99% of every human in the past. Including those people today who are living under tyranny far worse than Americans endure.
Are things bad? Yes. But we need to remember (as stated by H.U. Westermayer), “The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”
Our thanks to our readers and correspondents, and to clients and customers, coworkers and volunteers. We bless the Lord for letting you be in our lives.
For those needing more of a Thanksgiving fix from a libertarian perspective, enjoy these links:
From FEE. Why libertarians should give thanks, especially in times like these.
A Thomas Sowell Thanksgiving message from The Libertarian Institute
Thanksgiving, redistribution, and libertarianism at the International Libertarian
The Libertarian Christian Institute on Thanksgiving
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Follower of Christ Jesus (a christian), Pahasapan (resident of the Black Hills), Westerner, Lover of Liberty, Free-Market Anarchist, Engineer, Army Officer, Husband, Father, Historian, Writer, Evangelist. Successor to Lady Susan (Mama Liberty) at TPOL.