News is slow today, and my Internet connection has been slow as well.
Over at Power Line, they have had a series of posts by Paul Rahe, the author of the book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift.
Rahe examines the writings of Montesquieu, Rousseau and de Toqueville and how they "anticipated the propensity of the modern liberal republic to drift in the direction of "soft despotism"- a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self government."
This has now happened in the Western World now that the United States has arrived there.
The posts on Power Line add to that. There are three of them:
Obama's Tyrannical Ambition;
The Servile Temptation, Part I; and,
The Servile Tempation, Part II.
It is just impossible to break these down into "fair use" quotes and maintain the integrity of the posts.
I recommend you follow the links and read them.
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