1. We did not arrive at this point in our history overnight. It took a VERY long time for those who, from the beginning, have sought to undermine the foundations of this most noble brush with liberty in the history of man.
2. Ultimately it is we the people who are at fault and not for lack of very adequate warnings from those who preceded us as to what it would take to maintain a republic such as ours over the long haul.
The seeds for the destruction of our republic were planted at her birth. They received enormous cultivation during the mid-nineteenth century. And they have grown exponentially over the last forty years.
The thing is, the enemies of our republic have become much more emboldened, their tactics much more overt, and the symptoms of the decay much more apparent, that even a few of the complacent among us are beginning to notice what was there from the beginning ... and what we failed to eradicate, despite the clear blueprint provided for us.