Steyn: "The U.S. is no longer a land of republican virtue and self-reliant citizens but it’s not headed for the sunlit uplands of Scandinavia, either"

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/304888/american-twilight-mark-steyn

JULY 7, 2012 2:00 A.M. American Twilight The lamps of liberty are going out. By Mark Steyn "America is seizing up before our eyes, and the action necessary to reverse the sclerosis is stymied at every turn by rapacious unions, government micro-regulators, dependency-spreading social engineers, and crony capitalists who know how to weave their way through the bureaucracy."