It's the same ol', same ol'. Their slogans are always directly opposed to their actions. The French revolutionaries, the forerunners of the Bolsheviks, also advocated 'liberte, egalite, fraternite' - but you got your head chopped off for being mildly moderate. That's neither liberty nor equality, as the man who gets to decide that you need your head chopped off is always more 'equal' than the rest of us.

Ideally, there would be a balance between different powers - so that no one is able to dominate the other and all of us. In America, in my view, the greater threat comes from private individuals and corporations than from government. They censor at will. They dominate the government through lobbyists. In my own Europe, I agree that too much government is the problem almost everywhere.