"Once our government does become involved in something...."

"Once our government does become involved in something, intellectual and institutional inertia tends to keep it there for good.  People lose their political imagination.  It becomes impossible to conceive of dealing with the matter in any other way. Repealing the new bureaucracy becomes unthinkable.  Mythology about how terrible things were in the old days becomes the conventional wisdom." -Page 74 of The Revolution, A Manifesto