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I was listening to one of the many talk until you are blue in the face "shows" the other day. A statement was made that this type of thing goes on all the time.

I am 36 and every year it seems to grow worse. I can't decide whether it is my personal perspective (father of 3 and middle aged) or is there really a shift taking place.

Things seem to be changing at a rapid pace, and it's hard to seperate truth from exageration.

Just hangin' on for the ride...... and I don't even have cable TV....

:-\

Our freedom has been under attack for decades, small erosions of guaranteed (HAH!) rights under the constitution have occurred in myriad ways. Nothing new there except for the frequency of abuse and the degree of disdain shown for the rights being taken by those not immediately effected.

Look through some of the illegal invasion, questionable police shooting and WOD posts here on FR and you'll see several sterling examples of "conservatives" who couldn't care less about others constitutional rights as long as they aren't effected personally. It's that very "As long as it's not me, I couldn't care less" attitude that emboldens scum like those sitting on the SCrOTUS(and the legislative and the executive branches) to make outrageous decisions like this.

It is growing worse and there will be no end to it. There will be the occasional last stand by lone free men (and women) that ends in a hail of submachinegun fire from a JBT, but nothing organized. And those dead martyrs of conscience will be vilified by all as crazed psychopaths for daring to resist. The media and our own brainwashing against resisting authority will guarantee their demonization.

We, as a nation, have lost the stomach for hardship and hard decisions and there will be no resistance to this or any of the other blatant acts of tyranny that will be shoved down our throats in the months and years to come. Blood should be spilled in response to the many egregious breaches of the compact between our government and the once free citizens of this nation, but it won't happen. And I'll be sneered at by many as a reactionary nut job for even entertaining the thought, let along putting it into words.

My heart aches for you and others who have young children. Just imagining the nation they are going to inherit makes me sick. Watching ones children being born into slavery must be the worst thing a man can possibly live through. Having known freedom himself(or the illusion thereof) has got to eat at ones soul when he looks into the faces of his babies and knows they never will.

/disgusted rant mode off

I am 36 and every year it seems to grow worse. I can't decide whether it is my personal perspective (father of 3 and middle aged) or is there really a shift taking place.

Things seem to be changing at a rapid pace, and it's hard to seperate truth from exageration.

Just hangin' on for the ride...... and I don't even have cable TV....

36 is not middle aged, because I'm older than you and consider myself middle aged - if 36 was, then I'd be just "old", lol.

Anyways, my view is this. I'm the same Conservative/Republican I was 30 years ago. The Party, on the other hand, is not the same party I joined.

I haven't left the party, the party has left me.

The fact that you have recognized this just in your lifetime tells me I'm not crazy, and it tells me that something is wrong.