Interesting, this quote comes to mind:
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville#Misattrib...
It's the same ephemerality as saying someone is a hater of "Freedom".
It makes an easy soundbite but what does that even mean?
Certainly, it's an over-generalization, and the word freedom is used specifically to evoke an emotional response, but I don't think it's devoid of meaning.
An unfortunate side-effect of having a democracy with 300 million plus people in it, is that to a certain extent these sort of over-generalizations are a necessary part of coalition building.
Coalition? You mean "fear fueled mob"?
Not sure what you mean by a bottom up government but the buzzwords are flowing I'm assuming it involves something along the lines of privatizating everything.