Somewhere in there is the same solution to every problem -
more control over our lives, less freedom, reduced standard of living.
EVERY problem has this as a solution.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H.L. Mencken
(nearly a century ago -— when the press was skeptical of politicians)