1043 reasons to be leary of government

The U.K.'s Daily Mail, via Hotair, offers this insight into the consequence of our romanticism of power.

Now there are 1000 laws that will let the state into your home

It has never made any sense to me why people think that power is something to authorized lightly, except that they haven't thought about it enough and are convinced that it can do and can be trusted to do more than it can.

But here are 1043 reasons to be leary of the nanny-state, invasions of home and privacy, and otherwise seriously skeptical of government power.

When all is said and done with this political period, given the incomparable level of freedom, voice and participation that citizens of liberal democracies have in their government, there is only one person or group that we need blame for this period of regressive and repressive encroachment on liberty:

Ourselves.