1. Omnipresent/omniscient. The state is increasingly everywhere and monitoring everything you do so that none of us have any secrets any longer. After all, what do you have to hide?
2. Greatest source of wisdom. This results in the state becoming ever increasingly all knowing, with the assumption that once all knowing, the wisdom to deal with such knowledge will just come naturally because without God, people think that the human being is naturally good, so why worry about it? Nothing in the private sector can even come close to the wisdom of government in dealing with our never ending problems which is why they run the show. And to procure such wisdom, all we need is science. And even though science is not a source of wisdom, man is inherently good so it will naturally come. After all, we are all evolving and all evolution is to our benefit, so history becomes that much less important as a learning tool because we have progressed so far!
3. Omnipotent. The government becomes all powerful. Historically, governments tend to trend towards collectivism. Over time, power is increasingly centralized to the point of one person, or group of people, ruling over everyone else. It is an innate desire to be ruled by a king no matter the objections heard to the contrary because history bears this out. Most governments have been ruled by despotic single rulers, and those that are not have trended towards that, like Caesar declaring himself emperor of Rome to the chagrin of the Roman Senate or the Executive Branch in the US ballooning into the 4rth branch of government, taking over many of the jobs originally done by the Legislative branch and now ruling by Executive edicts, etc.
4. Ineluctably. We have all heard of the long arm of the law. With the government becoming exponentially omnipresent and all powerful, escaping it's clutches is increasingly problematic.
5. Benevolent. The state is looked upon as the only real source for helping those in need. Why without the state, we would all be starving in the streets without health care and with no hope. The state, therefore, is the source of all "love" and only source of hope. The state must continually save us from ourselves, and since they believe human nature is ultimately good, at least in government, there is no reason for concern for the opposite effect.
Maybe none of this would be an issue if we ensure our government represents people and not money.
Human nature is corrupt and the more power a person becomes the more corrupt they become.
Have you ever seen the movie Lord of the Rings? It is a movie that represents my point about human nature. In the movie, a ring gives you all kinds of powers, so when you use them, you become addicted to it and the longer you have the ring the more sick and twisted you become in your obsession with the ring. Even the most mild mannered and "good" person who has the ring will undergo a change if they wear the ring and if they wear it too long they reach a point of no return.
This is the problem with government, and the more centralized and powerful it becomes, the worse the condition of those who wear the ring.
The US was based upon a limited government where states ran their own affairs. Now it has been transformed by the Progressive era into a centralize Leviathan where the states bow to the Federal government as the Federal government now dictates everything from what doctor you see to who will educate your first grader and how and what kind of toilet you will flush.
The system, as a result, is unfixable and inherently corrupt and is only getting worse.
So do yourself a favor, turn on Netflix and watch the movie.
