We are ultimately an oligarchy of multinational corporations and their attorneys if you must know the ugly truth. You must remain drunk each evening, watch sports, purchase lots of consumer goods and petroleum products, and don't rock the boat.
hehehe... so... why'd you leave your home planet, really? What color is the sky there?
At least their motives are transparent; their sole purpose is to make money. When financial gain is the motive, you at least have a negotiating position, modest as it may be.
But when judicail fiat and political ideology rule your life by people that are 'doing it for your own good', you are totally screwed. Those peoples motivation is power, and that's not negotiable.
I agree 100% with your assertion and in fact we're far worse off due to the fact that we live in this stautory twilight zone where our we're constantly bombarded with codes, rules, regulations, etc. from city, county, state and fedgov entities. I've heard there are over 60 million codes, reg's, etc. on the books across the country which brings new meaning to the adage that "ignorance of the law is no excuse".
It should be obvious by now that the vast majority of these codes, etc. are designed to exert ever more control over our lives by faceless gov't. entities and/or to extrtact even more $ from us through taxes, permits, fees, etc. In either case I'm quite sure none of this was ever envisioned by our founding fathers.