Freedom was never there, what people called freedom was the freedom to stand atop the bloody backs of others and we’ve always been okay with that. That’s the society we live in and that will always continue, just today this time it is on your front lawn.

Elaborate. There are a couple things I think you could be saying, but I’m not sure which if any it might be.

I will also say that I was very imprecise with that sentence. I should’ve said “… which is why we have always lost or gained freedom.” There are many ways to understand freedom, but regardless of the specifics, people have had more or less of it at different points in time.

The freedom to exert state control on society through voting, or the enforcement by anyone of informal social agreements in a non state system are restrictions on absolute freedom. That absolute freedom to our self determination. Societies can and have restricted some freedom to prevent it from taking freedom from others, but they often only maximize the freedom of very few at the expense of everyone else’s.

Your understanding of freedom is unclear to me, so I can’t really agree or disagree.