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Even with the rapid growth of the massive federal bureaucracy since World War II, it is difficult for Americans, accustomed as they are to the idea of a government constituted to protect liberty, to conceive or imagine the full scope of a truly invasive totalitarian government. This is a potentially deadly lack of vision. The Germans of the Weimar period, it could be argued, were similarly blind to the dangers of full-blown tyranny; and the sorry result was the cold-blooded murder of millions. Failure to recognize the approach of tyranny led directly to tragedy.
Like the Germans of the 1920s, Americans today face just such a potential tyranny. This time the ...