"the soul...it must be broken...and the man is yours, you won't need a whip, he'll bring it to you and ask to be whipped...Make man feel small...kill his aspiration...kill integrity...you stop all incentive to....excellence...just say that reason is limited...suspend reason and...anything goes...not judgment but public polls...no individuality will be permitted...kill the individual."
-Ellsworth Toohey’s speech, from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead
Amen, my FRiend...that is precisely what they seek to accomplish by appealing to the worst traits of human nature to ensnare our citizens to their wretched shackels.