The label doesn't matter, the power matters. They will use whatever label works at the time to gain the power to do these things. That's why the most important thing for protecting freedom is that the government never be allowed those powers in the first place. That's why Ben Franklin said what he said.
The founders were good to know that government power should be restricted, but they failed in that they had giving the people the ability to hand power over to the government, ultimately they had just put in an extra step to the descent into tyranny, it was a matter of time before the people would become willing to elect in tyrants and give their support to changes being made to the system's design that paved their road to serfdom, from the beginning, it could be predicted that we'd have laws that flagrantly violated the constitution and bill of rights (under the shady nonsense justification ftom "progressives" that these were "living documents" that "needed to change with the times"), and the people would not only refuse to oppose these alterations, but they'd loudly support them, even going so far as to march in the streets to demand them. Given enough power, the people will demand their own servitude, and turn any nation into a state of slaves and masters, the elites who take the masters role will be waiting, ready and willing to take up their eager slaves on the offer.
There's literally no systemic way to avoid it if the citizenry want it. How do you stop it if the powerful want more power and the citizens want to give it to them? You can't. There's nothing the authors of the Constitution could have done to prevent it.
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