56 percent of Americans questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll said that the U.S. government has become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.
What happened to America "Home of the Free, land of the brave"?
The founding fathers must be "rolling in their graves" if they were to see what America has become.
As I remember saying elsewhere, the first thing any newly born government does, is make revolution against that government illegal. So, while I agree completely with you, we both may be late on the curve in catching on.
Since revolution is illegal, the government then has the right to suppress that revolution. Since the military power of the U.S. Government is so broad and overwhelming, sedition then becomes impossible, and perhaps suicidal.
Any government faced with this preponderance of force, is ripe for abuse of that power. To invoke the old cliche, "power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
China rather prefers a brute force approach to this type of abuse of power, while the US Government just withdraws privileges, little by little, bit by bit from an apathetic and unsuspecting public. Get them thinking about Kim Cardashian and Michael Jackson, while they legislate away the few rights we have left. People have become individuals, from the promise of individual liberty as promised by the constitution, when concerted action would be better for their well being.
