I am vaguely aware of the events after 1918. Particularly how those commies in the UK managed to force the government's hand on all sorts of socialist crap.

I am aware that freedom isn't free but we aren't paying for freedom around here only funneling more stolen money into the bullshit government, the local one not Ukraine's. I want the government here to be arming us with automatic weapons and anti-armor rockets not sending them abroad. That would be paying for freedom but instead we are paying for more surveillance, more bureaucrats, more regulation.