It never comes because we fight it. If you stop fighting it, and let it gain ground, it is an inevitability. There is a reason why back in Lincoln's day, the preservation of Liberties for fiture generations was extolled to a near religious degree. The transfer of fewer liberties between generations is hard to notice, as the incoming generation is removed from the state where the apparatus was not around.
This is why Jefferson wanted sunset dates on everything, so every group would have to fully come to grips with why things are the way they are instead of going with Madison's view of a state of affairs where "deference to the dead" was the norm and an eventual State where all the laws in existence were handed down or made on the basis of the lives of people who are long dead.
Governments should serve the living. Not the dead. Governing is hard. Anyone who jumps into it thinking otherwise is a fool.
This is why Jefferson wanted sunset dates on everything, so every group would have to fully come to grips with why things are the way they are instead of going with Madison's view of a state of affairs where "deference to the dead" was the norm and an eventual State where all the laws in existence were handed down or made on the basis of the lives of people who are long dead.
Governments should serve the living. Not the dead. Governing is hard. Anyone who jumps into it thinking otherwise is a fool.