And this is what imagined tyranny would sound like if it was actual tyranny....

[BaiHu]

Saving even one child so he can place him into bondage a moment's later is Harry Reid's MO.


"I will vote for assault weapons ban because maintaining law and order and saving lives is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.

http://www.businessinsider.com/harry-reid-assault-weapons-ban-gun-control-senate-2013-4

[RoyGBiv]

Alexis de Tocqueville (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville)


Tocqueville warned that modern democracy may be adept at inventing new forms of tyranny, because radical equality could lead to the materialism of an expanding bourgeoisie and to the selfishness of individualism. In such conditions we lose interest in the future of our descendents...and meekly allow ourselves to be led in ignorance by a despotic force all the more powerful because it does not resemble one. Tocqueville worried that if despotism were to take root in a modern democracy, it would be a much more dangerous version than the oppression under the Roman emperors or tyrants of the past who could only exert a pernicious influence on a small group of people at a time. In contrast, a despotism under a democracy could see "a multitude of men," uniformly alike, equal, "constantly circling for petty pleasures," unaware of fellow citizens, and subject to the will of a powerful state which exerted an "immense protective power". Tocqueville compared a potentially despotic democratic government to a protective parent who wants to keep its citizens (children) as "perpetual children," and which doesn't break men's wills but rather guides it, and presides over people in the same way as a shepherd looking after a "flock of timid animals."

Prescient