Originally Posted by minusonebit

Because people here are so dumbed down that they no longer think for themselves. I blame the government schools for most of it, turning out complete and utter retards, compliant with the whims of the people who programmed them. The fire in the belly of the American people is gone. People no longer want freedom here, they want safety and they think that they can trade freedom for it. Ben Franklin had something succinct to say on this practice.

Its a different time. If this was happening even 150 years ago, every single politician in this country would be tried to treason and hanged. Well, for that matter, it would never get to that point. They'd be hanged long before they ever made it into top offices and had a chance to corrupt the entire system. We'd see alot of hangings at the local level. Almost all of these schmucks in Washington today started somewhere on a county council, as a sheriff or the mayor of some pathetic spineless little town.

But it was the death of a thousand cuts for freedom. A little nick here, a little slice there. Hell, the first few didn't even bleed, so no one even noticed. Many more after that didn't bleed very much and only a few noticed that America was no longer healthy. Now we are cutting veins and major arteries and blood is flowing by the gallons, but the smaller cuts siphoned off so much blood collectively that America is now light headed and has begun to embrace its death. There will only be a few more cuts needed to inflict terminal injury.