I've come to the same conclusion and I don't like to come to such conclusions easily. At some point the evidence is so overwhelming you have no choice but to.

The ultimate battle is for freedom though sometimes it's their freedom at the expense of our freedom.

What's most disturbing about all this is that they don't need all this authoritarian power because they're right and know how to fix things. They need it because they're wrong. They need it to do things people wouldn't normally go along with. They need it because if they argue on equal terms they lose.

You have a situation where the worst driver in the vehicle is trying to grab the steering wheel.