Dennis Prager always says, "The larger the government, the smaller the individual". Anyone who pays attention can see how our freedoms have been whittled away, nick by nick for "the greater good". You don't have to look very far into the past. Twenty years ago I could ride my motorcycle without a helmet, smoke a cigarette in a restaurant, and have a can of beer at the beach. Now we're not even allowed a cigarette at the beach. Seatbelt laws were once something that could be added on to a citation if you were pulled over for some infraction; now going without a seatbelt is cause for being pulled over, and cited. I could go on, and anyone here could easily add to the list. There is a mindset prevalent on the left that seems to think that the major problem with people is that they do what they want to do instead of what they are told to do. And the left ALWAYS knows better than you what is good for you, and me, and everyone. I'm waiting for someone to jump in with the argument about second hand smoke, or the canard- "if it saves one life..."
Don't even get me started on "green" anything.
Truth is, the leftist nanny state is devouring our freedoms, destroying our prosperity, lying to us, and forcing a dreary, humorless, politically correct totalitarianism on what once was the last best hope for liberty on the planet.
JWM