[rogerv]

Really? You don't have any questions about power and its abuses? I'd be very interested to hear how you have found peace with all that.

[RightWhale]

power and its abuses?

Is that in reference to the modern state?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Really? You don't have any questions about power and its abuses?

Deplorable logic. It has not yet been demonstrated to my own satisfaction -- or to the satisfaction of most posters here -- that conservative government (in general) or this administration (in particular) has any problem re: "power and its abuses." Unlike, say, the Clinton White House.

I'd be very interested to hear how you have found peace with all that.

The same way many of us "find peace" with the concepts of vampires, werewolves and mean, mean ogres: by adamantly refusing to lose sleep over that which has not yet been intelligently demonstrated.

[BJungNan]

Really? You don't have any questions about power and its abuses? I'd be very interested to hear how you have found peace with all that.

This is a conservative forum. You don't think people here have a problem with overbearing government?! Just what do you think a conservative stands for?

[iconoclast]

You don't have any questions about power and its abuses?

The concern about power over me and my children and grandchildren is precisely what makes me a conservative.

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
Barry M. Goldwater

Clearly many, if not most, folks immigrated to this country to avoid the oppression of overbearing government.

The "oppression/abuse by persons", individual or corporate, is not to be compared with the oppression/abuse of the uncombatable powers of government.

[oldcomputerguy]

"power and its abuses? I'd be very interested to hear how you have found peace with all that."

It is called studying history.

People always think the worst things are happening now and that the future is going to hell. It has always been that way, and the world has still survived and even prospered.

There is an ebb and flow to life and we achieve the centerline as a nation by bouncing off opposite guardrails.

Most of the things you are worrying about will work themselves out if they need working out. When they become bad enough, large numbers of people people will know it and rise up. Until then they are not bad enough to require action nor worry.