Tyranny, Injustice, Corruption, Oppression, and Statism

It is to be contended here that the 21st century will be eventually known as the Great Age of Tyrants.  What Lord Acton intended to do regarding the story of the idea of liberty is needed even more so for trying to get people to correctly understand the reality, characteristics, and essential nature of tyranny and its various evil consequences. 

A book, at least, is vitally required to present the horrible story of tyranny, which would go well beyond just the disputes, of past decades now, between the once many learned discussions of authoritarianism versus totalitarianism, as to the either related or different features of each.  Even, e.g., the discussion statism, as a term, does not adequately fulfill the higher task of getting at the true essence, so to speak, of tyranny, ancient, modern, and, now, postmodern, and, relatedly, the cognate qualities of tyrants.

There are many forms of tyranny.  All would seem to logically incorporate various degrees of injustice, corruption, and oppression.  As Aristotle rightly knew, however, the real and actually important political  question is not so much rulership by the one, the few, or the many, as to the three main or essential possibilities; it is, much rather, a critical and decisive matter of whether or not conditions defining of tyranny basically exist or not.  The possible existence of a democratic despotism, e.g., is really no less actually statist, despotic, oppressive, or authoritarian simply because it is promoted, tolerated, and/or supported by the majority of a people.

And yet, such a work related to the important subjects at hand, including the recent volume: Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark R. Levin still present problematic features and issues that do not finally get at the vital heart of the politically serious subject of tyranny. 

He does not recognize, for instance, that American conservatism is, ultimately speaking, still a true form of Liberalism and, as such, the results of his impassioned advocacy that he longs for would not actually achieve fruition in the sense or, moreover, to the very marked degree that he naively and absurdly suspects. Liberalism, as an ideology that definitely supports modernity qua Machiavellianism, etc., aims toward the promotion of tyranny to support its Godless, secularist-materialist goals and ends obsessed with obtaining absolute power on earth.

Yes, he would wish to stop the neo-enlightened despotism done in an American style called, sometimes, the Obamanation; however, conservatism keeps, generation by generation, moving inexorably farther and farther to the ideological Left; there is no firm and truly unchanging foundation as to the practical realities of domestic politics in this country, regardless of any assumed principles involved in the definition of conservatism.