Totalitarian socialism seeks to combine the separate ideas of government and society

• Crooks, academics, lifelong public sector bureaucrats, and career union members have chosen to bypass life's biggest risks and dangers. Which is fine. But it is a weakness. It means such people are unqualified to tell the rest of us how things are going to be. (ed).

"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction

• between government and society.

As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the

• socialists conclude

• that we object to
  
• 
  
• its being done at all."
  

Frederic Bastiat, via poster at RedState.com