It's been going on ever since WW2. What scares me is the current level of arrogance. Clearly, the New Ruling Elites have stopped even caring what we think. Their self-confidence shows how far things have gone.
Were We asleep at the wheel?
Is this a rhetorical question? Yes, of course we were. They played us, and they played us well. On the one hand, they distracted us with bread-and-circuses. On the other hand, they turned us off to politics with the phony mud-slinging and empty partisanship. Both Demopublicans & Republicrats used emotionally divisive issues like abortion, "death tax" and "gay marriage" as a smokescreen to hide the fact that they were working hand-in-hand to turn the United States of America into the Welfare Department of the "Global Community."
Is this a rhetorical question? Yes, of course we were.
Not all of us were asleep...Some of us have been preaching about this for decades...
And there will be a great many FReepers who claim to support a 'Free Republic' who will say this is a great idea...But doesn't any one wonder how many other 'things' the American Sheeple have been duped into believing???