Helmut Schmoke wrote a long book on ENVY and published it in the 1960's. The means by which a state absorbs the freedoms of the electorate is the appeal to envy which everyone carries with them, some to a greater degree than others. Obama has spent 6 years pounding on the ploy of envy. The key in envy, as it turns out, is that those who envy don't want what the others have but rather want the others (the millionaires and billionaires) to have as little as they have. Socialism gets that goal much closer and of course, Communism was the best at making certain that nearly no one had any reason to envy anyone else. Rousseau said it better.

Which candidate seeking the high office of President would not move to the front were he or she to espouse a Constitutional Amendment requiring that each member of the legislature and administration, past and present, would have to be obligated to the same laws as the rest of us?