I hate to say I agree with you.
Well, I hate to have to say it in the first place. I think our greatest failure today is a failure of imagination. Much as some people never become financially successful in part because they can't even imagine success, we have forgotten our own history and the extreme measures and sacrifices that this nation's founders had to endure to make it possible. The impositions of the imperial crown upon the American colonists pale in comparison in many ways to the injustices perpetrated by our present-day government. It has become hostile toward its own citizens, much as Loeffler's "dragon". Can anyone seriously say that if the likes of Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, James Madison, John Adams, etc. were around to see this today, they would not immediately go about drafting the Declaration of Independence, Part II? Somehow I seriously doubt they would see a society that had fallen so far that it was debating homosexual "marriage" as a redeemable one.