Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.
Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.
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.
Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.
There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.
The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.