Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
...KEEP HIM ENTERTAINED

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.