Wow, our country truly is lost!
It is if the people don't wake up. Think of all the institutions that claim they are trustworthy, then ask why you believe them.
The press claims it is trustworthy. Every government agency (not just feds, state and local too) claims to be trustworthy.
If the threshold for "allowable conduct" is "everything short of criminal" (which is at bottom the ethical standard of government actors), then world is much more harsh and dirty than most people appreciate.
One underlying principle of the constitution is limited government, and that is for good reason. Government will abuse every.single.power it is given, every.time. And it will see to it that the abuse is not punishable as a crime. The government broke the compact with the people, the constitution, generations ago. The government opened the borders to invaders, and 9 robed weenies on the Supreme Court made homosexual marriage into a constitutional right.
Damn well seriously broken - by the very people who supposedly have position to defend it. And the public yawns, or even asks to be put under an even heavier hand.