I hope Steyn is wrong...

...but I kind of doubt that he is:

I keep getting e-mails saying, "People will reach a tipping point and they'll no longer put up with this stuff." I doubt it. Right now the way to bet is that once free societies will retreat incrementally, one trivial step after another, into a totalitarian hell.

The funny thing is that the whole "WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!1!one!!1!eleven!" thing that the left was shouting over the past eight years was essentially right, albeit for the wrong reasons. It's easier for the vast majority of people to just say, "Well, the government will take care of it, so I don't need to bother." And while the tea party protests and eruptions of anger at town hall meetings made for lots of satisfying news coverage, I'm afraid that the people involved only represent a vocal minority.

In other words, I'm pretty sure we're fucked, at least in the long term.

Oh, and if you want to see the latest Nanny State idiocy Steyn is talking about in this instance, be sure to click on the link.

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