[Libertarian Billy Graham]

unspun to you: In America, Caesar is us folk!

Is now.

Sorry, I strongly disagree. The "government" does not equal the "people." Our constitutions make a clear distinction between the government and the people. For example, in Article I Section 8 of the federal constitution, the people delegate a few powers to the government. In Amendment 9, the people retain all rights not delegated to the government.

I remember hearing Professor Murray Rothbard digress one time in his History of Economic Thought class. He said his wife had Larry King on the radio on the drive to class that evening and Larry told a caller, "...but, but, in America the government is the people." Rothbard couldn't help wondering, "If the government is the people, does that mean that when the government kills us like they did at Waco, that we are committing suicide?"

[tacticalogic]

Relative to what we had then, we're a lot closer to it now. If you can come closer to describing that change while maintaining the distinctions between "the people" and "The People" in four words or less, be my guest.