Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest theoreticians of liberal democracy of all time, understood the dilemma well. He clearly saw what finally became obvious to me when I moved away from America and all its rhetoric about freedom and liberty, and experienced first hand a culture that at one and the same time, had both freedom and tyrany. Jefferson clearly understood that you can have a nice, neat, tidy, orderly society, or you can have …showed first 75 words of 779 total…

…showed last 75 words of 779 total…of their means and their power. Conservatives are not much inclined to do that. They call it "social engineering." Of course other nations long ago came to understand the power and utility of "social engineering," but conservatives won't look beyond the American borders. They naively think that social engineering doesn't work (while actually proposing to engage in it themselves - while not calling it that). The only alternative is to "lock 'em up." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**