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Fred Reed has again hit the nail on the head - don't think that the title is meant to be derogatory. This excerpt from From "Fred On Everything" shows (he's speaking of the US, of course, but you could see the same tendency in all of the world's 'democracies')
How did it sink to being a proto-Soviet surveillance state that builds vast awful Visitor Centers in the style of a Hitlerian mauseoleum? You can’t go to the john without a photo ID anymore. Something ain’t right.
Priceless stuff from a masterful writer...
