"Why should I trade one tyrant 3000 miles away for three thousand tyrants one mile away? An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."
--Benjamin Martin (The Patriot)
In this discussion of the Establishment's pushback against Rand Paul's efforts to force expiration of the Patriot Act's surveillance program, the author observes that "liberty is only theoretical to our political class."
Indeed, politicians generally use liberty as a positive substitute symbol for its opposite--despotism.
The author correctly concludes that "the political class benefits from the decay of liberty, not its growth."
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