…the standard liberal view of the populace as a whole, whether the subject is health care, taxes, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of speech, or whatever. That being that we are, individually and collectively, too stupid to be allowed to run around loose. (I’m sure the European nobility of the Middle Ages felt exactly the same way about their serfs.) Thus, we must be ruled by the “enlightened elite’”- for our own good, naturally.
Last week, I heard a woman (someone, somewhere in the vast labyrinth of government) say that “personal responsibility” is Republican “code” for ragging on poor people.
An astonishing statement, to put it mildly.
From their condescending arrogance and view of themselves as center of the universe, dispensing free lunches to their “lessers”, so called progressives simply don’t grok the power and value of the individual and that nothing handed to someone on a silver platter (a home, a job, an education, lunch 
) has much value, as opposed to working for same and achieving same on your own merits.
It isn’t too far fetched to say that today’s collection of liberals is actively working against the principles of freedom and individual initiative at the basis of our Constitution. Or that all of these measures coming out of government these days are designed to radically overturn those principles.
