I disagree with the premise of this article. The forces that grow Statism are largely independent of the culture. The very basic nature of organisms to survive, grow and displace competition also applies to human social groups like corporations and, unfortunately, the governing class in this country. The founders did everything they could to build in checks and balances to avoid this – but the barriers have been breached.
Growth in government is from within and since beyond some minimal overhead functions, it produces nothing that sustains life, it must parasitically attach itself to the host private sector. It takes Mother Nature quite a long time to evolve stable symbiotic relationships, and many hosts have been killed off by their parasitic would-be partners. So both must die off (see USSR) and then another pairing gets to try again until successful.
