[BenLurkin]

Right.
There's no argument, the statists just go ahead and do it.
Most Americans don't even know what has happened to what used to be their Republic.

[cgbg]

the statists just go ahead and do it

Foxnews needs to learn how to count:

(1) Federal agencies--then and now

(2) Federal budgets--then and now--as percent of GNP, adjusted for inflation, whatever

(3) Federal civilian employees

(4) State budgets (see 2)

(5) Politically protected "minority" groups--then and now

etc., etc., etc.

There is a clear trend--just count!

[DesertWalker]

Most Americans don't even know what has happened to what used to be their Republic.
I think they do. Even the socialist/liberal people I have talked with in the past 3 - 5 years acknowledge something is seriously wrong here, for many different reasons.
America is floating along on some weird brainwashed hallucination, the result of mass media efforts (Yes! It IS a conspiracy - the tin foil hat guys were right all along!).
As I study history, I have noticed that there are certain breakpoints in cultures. We are near one, but not quite there yet.
What will cause the change (I'm thinking of catastrophe theory here)? I don't know. Clearly, public education is a walking corpse. Justifiable mistrust of our legal institutions is almost universal, if you "listen between the lines" to people who actually give an opinion.
Yes, I think almost everyone knows, and are just waiting for the other shoe to drop.