We are not the country we used to be. Militarily, we are still the tops. But in so many ways, we are a weakened, and broken nation. It's almost like their was a plan to bring us down from our position of awesome strength.
This is when the unobstructed expansion of the federal bureaucracy began. With the war out of the way, Washington turned it's attention to the domestic issues, armed with it's new found power to regulate anything they could "find" that "substantially affects interstate commerce". We've been infantilized by the nanny state bureaucracy of the New Deal.
“This is when the unobstructed expansion of the federal bureaucracy began.”
It was also when taxes were taken DIRECTLY from the paycheck. Men came back from a war, and when they started working for that paycheck, the taxes were automatically taken out. This was not the case before the war. I guess everyone was so happy that the war was over, complaining about their taxes seemed wrong somehow. But this one thing was allowed the extensive growth of the federal government to this very day. We citizens have no power to have a “tea party” if we wished too. Remember the threads about the amnesty? All people could do was call their “representative”. The greatest generation came back to a country that did not exist in terms of the freedoms they fought so hard to keep. Without one peep.