They start with the humanitarian impulse of caring for you if you get injured but that costs money so they must quickly move to the socialist method of having someone else pay for their generosity. Once they have assumed the power to take money from others to care for you it’s only natural they will get the totalitarian impulse to control your life so as to keep the costs down. If you expect politicians and bureaucrats to act as surrogate parents and take care of your needs you shouldn’t be too surprised when they also act as surrogate parents to control your life.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.