Late night PING!
Socialism
The Road to Slavery
Socialist Government
Plantation Mentality
This caught my attention: The Gracchi began social programs and influenced the passage of social regulation that slowly began eating out the heart of the Republic and created a snowball effect of consequences to the economic and social system.
A few hundred years earlier, Aristotle said, "The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state."
If only the self imagined philosopher kings on our Supreme Court these past 75 years had a shred of humility and sense of history, we would be far and away distant from our current troubles.
I know a couple days late with my reply, but ...GREAT POST!
Thanks for sharing.