Sadly, we—people today and in previous generations—deliberately or unknowingly have voted away large chunks of our right to be in control. Most of the time, the matter at hand was sold as “so important it should be free or subsidized or regulated.” We’ve given up the right to control much of our hard-earned money to instead be taxed to receive “free” or subsidized healthcare. We’ve compromised our right to be in control of planning and saving for retirement in exchange for government Social Security in old age. We’ve voted for, or implicitly accepted, myriad regulations preemptively addressing the bad behavior of a few but violating the rights of everyone. And we’ve accepted government (public) schools as a fact of life, although the system takes away the right of parents to control the education of their children.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right 