BILL GREENE

In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville expressed concern that America’s democratic republic might be vulnerable to a new despotism that seduces citizens into surrendering their freedom in exchange for relief “from the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.” Democratic-socialism is a seductive mutation of despotism in which the democratic majority delegates control of more and more resources to government overseers.

In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville expressed concern that America’s democratic republic might be vulnerable to a new despotism that seduces citizens into surrendering their freedom in exchange for relief “from the care of thinking and all the trouble of living.” Democratic-socialism is a seductive mutation of despotism in which the democratic majority delegates control of more and more resources to government overseers.