Countries that undergo a peaceful regime change from free and open to closed and less free, usually do so by accepting the gradual substitution of one set of values for another. They abandon what I call the Four Fs and begin accepting the Four Gs as their new belief system.
The Four Fs are: Freedom, Family, Free enterprise, and Faith, and these are the essential cornerstones of a free society.
The Four Gs are: Government, Groups, Grants and Grabs, and Godlessness. These are the essential cornerstones of an unfree society and part of the gradual shift of all the Western democracies from free and open to more socialist and closed societies.
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