Changing soft tyranny into hard tyranny

How do you change soft tyranny into hard tyranny? Daniel Greenfield writes,

Instead of one great revolution, there are a million smaller revolutions stripped of overt ideology and pretending to serve the public good.

Health care is nationalized. Gun control is implemented. Education is centralized. Environmental panic is used to enforce rationing. The successful are taught to be ashamed of their success. They are taught that they didn’t build that. The state did.

The new bureaucratic collectivism sets out to control the most minor habits of every man, woman and child. People are told to spy on their neighbors. Children are taught to report the politically incorrect habits of their parents. The media asserts that all property and even children belong to the state.

Each of these is a miniature revolution. A string of these revolutions over time transforms the soft tyranny into a hard tyranny.

The creeping pace of the soft revolution forces the inner totalitarian to practice some discretion, mummifying his tyrannical aspirations in the embalming fluid of political correctness, but no flood of words can conceal the inner contempt behind the false benevolence of the tyrant who makes policies that deprive the people of their freedom for their own good.