-——Western civilization is on a dangerous slide into tyranny.-——
Either the author is a coward or doesn’t get it.
There is no slide to tyranny. The treacherous tyranny is in effect.
Tyrants with no regard for the law and with a fear of disorder are firmly incontrol.
Isn’t it amazing that some still prattle about the danger of tyranny IN THE FUTURE? How can anyone fail to see that tyranny is firmly established? Actually, in my view, tyranny has been here for decades already. Just one small example, the COUNTY GOVERNMENT where I live says that if a family has two houses on one piece of property and they use the county water system they must have a meter for each house, they cannot run water from one meter to both houses. If they choose to have a private well they must have two private wells, one for each house! Not only that but they must have a permit from the county for each well before a well can be drilled. If that is not tyranny then grits ain’t groceries as we used to say in SC. Those who founded this nation would have been up in arms at the suggestion that someone could tell them that they could not drill a well anytime they felt like it and run the water to as many houses as they pleased.
I would make the case that if you don’t recognize it prior to the twentieth century then it was certainly established with the creation of the IRS and the Federal Reserve system a hundred years ago. If you don’t recognize the EPA as tyranny you simply are living in a fantasy with no connection to reality. Tyranny comes in many varieties and degrees, FREE is a superlative, tyranny is not.