Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

Nothing annoys a 'progressive' like refugees from Communism, who give the lie to the Great Socialist Dream.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). Unfortunately, only a tiny fraction of the U.S. population today - subtle logicians like you - can grasp such nuances. Too bad. The Constitution wasn't meant to be a brain-twister.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.