American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

As soon as people drop the reins on government, government will leash the people.

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way.

Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to prevent crime by trying to disarm law-abiding citizens. The worse government fails to control crime, the more the politicians want to restrict individuals' rights to defend themselves. But police protection in most places is typical government work - slow, inefficient, and unreliable.

Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.