Any ideas on what Mr. Madison was talking about in my quote from Federalist 47 back up thread a ways?
He is talking about the very manner in which the current tyranny we suffer under would materialize. He noted the focus was on creating a working federal government and less on protecting and preventing liberty from being infringed and usurped by the very branches they empowered. He saw where tyranny would become institutionalized. The tyranny we have today grown accustomed to and lie to ourselves does not exist because we can go to the polls every couple years to vote for lifetime career members of the oligarchy.
Madison was adroit to understand that when the Judicial, Legislative and Executive branches are essentially run by a single party and influenced by the same ideology - that the very definition of tyranny will have been achieved. That once the government spends it's time accumulating power and authority and inventing new controls and requirements upon the citizenry and nation, that the system itself would become a danger to the existence of liberty itself. Preservation of individual liberty is not, and has not been part of any function of the federal government in over 100 years.
The Beast is self-aware - and it's appetite insatiable and ravenous, and unchecked will devour all wealth, all liberty and all life in a vain attempt to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the rulers that run it and are enriched and empowered by it.
We little people, are just slaves easily manipulated by notions of 'equality', 'fairness' and the lie that government needs to become god in order to achieve utopia for everyone - when the truth is that the rulers have intentions to only benefit a very narrow class of peers among themselves. Basically,they and your neighbors do not trust you or I with liberty and the entire function of government is now predicated on the effort to license, restrict, redistribute and reapportion all things in a manner which safeguards them and their posterity.
