Stalinists are very courageous when they have the power of the state behind them. For far too long we have put more and more power into the executive branch and filled it with apparatchiks whose interest is to centralize more power in the state. We are left with a neutered congress and ineffectual court systems with no physical power to challenge the executive and a population interested only in who is on tv and what freebies they can get from government.
That pretty well sums it up. The frustration keeps mounting. We are sitting back watching our freedom disappear just waiting...always waiting until the next election. Only to be disappointed, even if we win.