Ten years of fear is enough
R. Lee Wrights"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going
Way to go!!!!!!!
I normally wouldn't piss on a "libertarian" if (s)he was on fire. However, this little ditty hit the mark. Sadly, being tucked in at night by Big Mother has become a national passtime. "Creative governance" - real or imagined threats, internal and/or external) has been the modus operandi of U.S. adminsitrations for all of my life (more than 50 years). It is what the proto-dictators do best, and always have. One would hope that it wouldn't wash in the 21st Century.
We are, sadly, living in a culture of weak-kneed, mindless entitlement junkies. To defend against anything, individually, just isn't on the agenda for so many U.S. citizens. Most don't even know they've been raped until the baby is delivered