The Left, From Progressive to Oppressive

Michael Ledeen "As Tocqueville forecast, liberty gets tied down by an endless network of regulation, and we become enslaved without ever seeing it happen. That is because we get to vote, and console ourselves with the thought that our rulers serve US. Meanwhile, the Left has legislated (or, when that is impossible, simply ordered) the big State, and staffed it with their own. History is replete with paradoxes, none more anguishing than the perfection of the oppressive State by people claiming to act in the name of liberty." See Abraham Lincoln's prophecy above.