Soft Tyranny

He mentioned terms such as "soft tyranny," "soft despotism" and "tyranny of the majority" to describe how these events would happen. Basically, through gradual, small changes in policy, the United States would be fundamentally transformed into a state controlled completely by the government.

When a soft tyranny occurs, there is usually a majority in the governmental houses. The system of checks and balances doesn't matter because they generally all agree on the same principles. This allows these representatives and policymakers to impose whatever will they wish upon the population.

With the sign of the pen, many policies that have existed and worked for years to protect the United States against itself and its enemies have been overthrown. Relativism is rejected and the difference between right and wrong, bad and good, just and unjust are obfuscated.

Soft tyranny requires us to sit by and watch as our culture, principles and values crumble to pieces. Government power is now more important than human rights. We rely on global action rather than act, even if it means the lives of many will perish.

Tax revolts and other insurrections are often because of the influence of a soft tyranny. We are seeing it even now in the streets with the various "tea parties" which are a stand against the government for the fiscal irresponsibility it has brought in the recent months. Fascist and marxist tactics are consistently the center of a soft tyranny. Whether it be price controls or other regulations which cripple a free market society, we gradually stray farther and farther away from what our country was built upon.

Individuals that believe that socialism is the most efficient way of running an economy have been clouded by the ideals of their teachers. While capitalism rewards success, socialism rewards failure. These individuals will stop at nothing to use any crisis such as the housing bubble to impose their policy upon the people.

From supreme court decisions that break the constraints of the constitution such as Roe v. Wade, to the reversal of policies that defend out country against terror and oppression, we have given up small liberties over time in the same manner that happens in a society touched by soft tyranny.