Our demise as a We The People Constitutional Republic can actually be traced to its beginning in 1913, with establishment of the private banking cabal euphemistically called The Federal Reserve.
By the government handing our money creation into the hands of these private bankers, we started the cascade which now includes things like The Patriot Act and numerous executive Order abuses by presidents from both political sides.
There is a very credible argument that can be made that Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to have the government creating our money. Kennedy went so far as to have new bills being printed which closed off the federal reserve from issuing our money, had he succeeded.
BTW, if you go to the link and to the 1hr 35 minute mark, you will see that old devil Rockefeller admitting he and a select few have been building their new world order which is about to be completed. He thanks the media (verminous scum) for keeping the reality hidden while the construction has been on going.