Liberalism with its geometrically increasing reliance on federal administrative laws and regulations is a gradual encroachment of slavery. Thinking of the healthcare bill, once again politicians offered enchanting material security, while obscuring subservience to rules vastly increasing their power. That legislation attacks our Bill of Rights by confiscating speech and religious freedoms, personal life without access to courts and trial, and Ninth Amendment personal freedoms guaranteed, but not enumerated by our Constitution.
To me pursuit of happiness has always meant spiritual prosperity within the hazards and uncertainties of personal freedoms. However, I can certainly see how slavery could be an attractive tradeoff for someone unmotivated spiritually, and persuaded to see only material poverty. They would not perceive the enormity of human poverty associated with having to beg an elected official or bureaucrat for relief from a law.
I’ve always pointed out to people that after the Communists shot their way into power in 1918 in Russia they consolidated that power by creating a health care system where none had existed previously. This way they could determine who got it and who didn’t, in addition to having an enormous data base on everyone. These are the same people Saul Alinsky and all the other Marxists in America have admired and studied. So has Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This is what the Marxist/Socialist Democrats are trying to do here.