Mark Levin has written
two brilliant books, Liberty and Tyranny and Ameritopia, in which he describes, in
painfully clear detail, the century-long decay of America from a constitutional
republic populated by free people into a quasi-statist, soft tyranny inhabited
by an entitlement-entranced, morally dubious, security-obsessed population that
is increasingly subjugated by a seemingly benevolent but, in truth, oppressive federal
government. For example, in the first book, Levin wrote:
So distant is America today from its founding
principles that it is difficult to precisely describe the nature of American
government. It is not strictly a constitutional republic, because the Constitution
has been and continues to be easily altered by a judicial oligarchy that mostly
enforces, if not expands, the Statist's agenda. It is not strictly a
representative republic, because so many edicts are produced by a maze of
administrative departments that are unknown to the public and detached from its
sentiment. It's not strictly a federal republic, because the states that gave
the federal government life now live at its behest. What, then is it? It is a
society steadily transforming to statism…....
Finally, the Great Depression.
Unfortunately, the US dealt with that calamity by taking the first huge steps
on the road to serfdom. There was no rebirth of liberty during the event and
precious little afterward. The economy improved but our slide into political
and cultural suicide began in earnest under FDR, and was not at all reversed in
the successive Truman or Eisenhower administrations.....To Read More....
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