Obama will raise taxes, therefore denying my right to my
property.
Obama does not recognize the right to
life of an unborn child, who is still very much alive.
Obama does not recognize the right to my
liberty to decide what to pay my employees.
Obama on employment discrimination. And minimum wage.
Obama does not recognize my
liberty to employ who I want to.
Obama on increasing employment of people with disabilities. And also union workers.
Obama does not recognize my
liberty or property to trade freely with the people I wish to trade with.
Obama on free trade.
Obama does not respect my
liberty or property with regards to the Social Security system, which pretty much takes my money and throws it away.
Basically you seem to ignore the fact that
everything Obama wants to do increased the role of the government in the lives of the people. The people become dependent on the government for their well being (i.e. Social Security, taxes that take away your property that makes you more dependent on the government for your well being and then gives it to those already dependent on the government, the support of giving food stamps instead of tax breaks in the current economic climate, forced support for public education, public works, public programs for such things as poverty, old age, and the environment, and other things where you must support the government or else you suffer such as his healthcare plan that relies on taxes that you have to pay and benefits that you can choose to take (there really is no choice.)
And somehow you dismiss this as not being authoritarian because "McCain does it too" or "authoritarianism is only secret trials, observation, and arrests" or that "taxes are a fact of life."
This is still authoritarianism, the government has more authority over you. These are the purposes of government.
1.) Protect the rights, life, liberty, and property, of all the individuals in the nation.
2.) Defend the country from foreign or domestic invasion or subversion.
3.) Protect the free market from the forces of monopolies, and regulate the natural monopolies whose existence is beneficial and cannot be competitive.
4.) Provide a system that represents the people, so that the power of the government is put in check.
5.) Ensure that no one person or group in the government becomes so powerful as to prevent any of the previous purposes.
OBAMA WANTS TO EXPAND THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT, HE IS THEREFORE AUTHORITARIAN. HE WANTS THE GOVERNMENT TO HAVE MORE POWER OVER THE DECISIONS YOU MAKE AND THE WAY YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE.