Transition into a socialist nanny state moves it further from a nation of, for and by the people

The United States of Socialist Republics

By Daniel Greenfield
Monday, March 22, 2010

What exactly was the difference between the United States and the USSR? Both were political unions occupying large land masses. Both believed themselves to be unique political experiments which would redefine the nature of human governance around the world. Both even believed that government existed for the benefit of the people. Yet beyond the specifics, there was one fundamental difference between the two. Not simply in how they were governed, but why they were governed.

In the United States, government existed through the consent of the governed. Government was simply a mechanism through which the people ruled themselves. In the USSR, by contrast, government derived not from the people, but for the people. Not “Ofâ€