People may love freedom, but they don’t always love the responsibility that freedom demands

Liberty is not merely the absence of coercion but a learned skill and a habit of self-governance that requires active participation and responsibility. This is the central idea of Alexis de Tocqueville’s psychology of freedom.

Freedom, Tocqueville warned, can be quietly eroded in democracies not by force, but through the voluntary surrender of personal responsibility to the state, leading to a “subtle surrender of freedom” where people, seeking security, relinquish their autonomy.

This psychological shift, driven by a desire to avoid the burdens of choice and the anxiety of uncertainty, results in a passive citizenry dependent on government, ultimately undermining the very foundations of a free society....<<<Read More>>>...