I don't know. We are merrily paying up to 50% of our income in taxes, watching a federal leviathan grow every year despite which political party is in power, and inflict itself into every corner of our life through regulations and programs that have no basis in the Constitution; We defer to "political correctness", allow left-wing legislators to pass thought crime laws (also know as "hate crime laws"), and have allowed a federal law which makes certain types of political speech a crime; we have let the 2nd Amendment be 'infringed' upon in numerous ways; we permit black robed tyrants to legislate from the bench and we tolerate Supreme Court justices who admit to considering European law in fashioning laws here in the US; and some huge percentage of us think that the government should be in the health care business, which will give them intimate knowledge of our individual cellular structure down to the DNA, etc., etc.
But we did get a file name changed, and we didn't have to "water any trees" to do it ... so that's something.
I meant "us" at FreeRepublic, and others in the blogosphere, not America at-large.