"Call me immune to the loss of freedom, I expect it to get worse not better in the future"
I look at the growth of government as a force, or a wave, and something that can only be somewhat re-directed, but not stopped. The election of bush instead of gore did stop it on SOME fronts, but not others. The 9/11/01 attacks had a huge influence on it, and so it goes.
The bright side is that the war on guns was on life support after the 94 AWB, and apparently is now dead-awaiting-recussitation under a hypothetical future democrat administration. On many other fronts, the growth of big brother goes on.
I guess to really stop this in its tracks, you would need an extraordinary social stressor, like widespread hunger, failure of the banking system, etc., and even then it might not be enough, or we might end up with something far more oppressive.