Gradualism and the Road to Totalitarianism

A little more restrained than the more usual Foxy offerings, well worth a listen. It was interesting to listen to 'gradualism' being described as a 'thing'. I'd never thought about it in that way before but yes, introduce a series of questionable but on their own justifiable changes over a period of time, the sum total of these changes can be an unacceptable movement of personal freedoms to an ever more powerful state. We can see this in the 'progression' resulting from Tony Blair, fairly tentatively at first, suggesting "with freedom of speech comes responsibilities". 20 odd years on we have 'hate speech' laws, their introduction being gradualism in action.