We've heard lots of rhetoric these past months, and we're about to hear a whole lot more. We're going to be hearing a lot of promises, a lot of proposals and plans, and - this season at least - a lot of if will have a certain apocalyptic and messianic flavor.

Regardless of your political persuasion, here's some wisdom to hang your hat on:

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.”

– C.S. Lewis