Sadly, what we’re rapidly becoming as a nation was long ago predicted by a Frenchman visiting our shores by the name of Alexis de Tocqueville. What he sensed during his stay was a sort of mad public rush for people to, well, not be different, but to become a faceless part of the masses. This led to his fear that government would someday cater to this mass psychology by becoming "an immense, tutelary power."

Under this power, the people would be ruled by "a network of petty regulations–complicated, minute and uniform," he wrote. Unfortunately, we’ve been so ruled for quite some time now, certainly since FDR and the New Deal, but the regulations get more onerous each time the Demofiends trick the public into giving them the reins of government. (It’s no wonder that gun and ammunition sales have skyrocketed since last November; the Second Amendment should be the next to fall. The Tenth was already eliminated by FDR.)

De Tocqueville predicted the American people would ultimately submit to a government that assumed "sole charge of assuring their enjoyment and of watching over their fate." This government would define people’s happiness and at the same time "be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness."

Of such governing, the Frenchman wrote: "It does not break wills; it softens them, bends them, and directs them." Ultimately, the people resemble "a herd of timid and industrious animals, of which government is the shepherd."

Had he been able to predict the exact time of this transformation, he could’ve picked 1932 as the starting date and 2009 as the finalization date.

That’s what we get when 52 percent of the voting public goes the way of "timid animals" who want to be herded toward their happiness by an American Hugo Chavez masquerading as a democratic president.