Since outright slavery has been discredited, 'democracy' is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

President Bush says Islam is a 'religion of peace' that has been 'hijacked' by a few nuts. He would know.

...[T]he Constitution conferred only a few specific powers on the federal government, all others being denied to it (as the Tenth Amendment would make plain). …

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.