Fact is, some of us have been paying attention for a long time and trying to stop the juggernaut which has led us here.
We have seen how both parties have advanced down the road to totalitarianism, right foot, left foot, each passing measures which would not have been tolerated by the following of the other, which might have led to the flash point.
The frog pot is steaming, and both 'parties' have been stoking the fire, slowly and carefully, always able to blame each other just enough to keep the majority of Americans from seeing through the scam.
Doubt it?
Take a look, without the rose colored glasses of party bias.
There is the Constitution on one side, and our 'two-party' system on the other.
Why else, when the changing winds of political power have ranged from completely favoring one party over the other, have the borders not been controlled? Not since Eisenhower recognized the problem enough to have "Operation Wetback", despite all the alleged advances in technology and fighting more than a half dozen far flung conflicts, has the border been more controlled by a subsequent administration. Even with the creation of entire agencies, with the dodge around the Posse Commitatus act of militarizing domestic police forces and agencies with military tactics and materiel, up to and including drone aircraft and armoured vehicles, not once has an administration been able to claim that it has held more control over our borders than the previous one, but those agencies and their tactics and materiel have been used against Americans.
JFK: The end of School Prayer, the start of Vietnam.
Left foot: LBJ: The Great Society, The War on Poverty, the end of the silver standard, the GCA of '68
Right foot: Nixon: the EPA, the DEA; declared the "war on drugs"; finished off the gold standard (currency no longer pegged to precious metals), opened trade with Communist China.
Left foot: Carter: The original CRA, Inflation
Reagan: Escalating The War on Drugs
Daddy Bush: The 1986 act to deprive anyone but LEOs and Military of new Class III firearms, creating a dual tier society in re the RKBA. First Drug Czar (head of ONDCP) later formalized under Clinton, involvement (official) of the CIA and Military in drug interdiction (graying the line between Military and police). First mention of a New World Order.
Clinton: Revamped the CRA, Government assaults on citizens (Ruby Ridge, Waco), the 'assault weapons ban', denial of terrorist attacks from foreign sources and placing the blame on Americans, starting the meme of the 'bitter clinger domestic terrorist', CARNIVORE, ECHELON, The Gorelick Memo.
GWB: The DHS, TSA, Expansion of domestic policing power at the Federal Level through new agencies; The War on Terror, warrantless wiretaps and monitoring of domestic communications, The subversion of the Constitution for "safety".
Obama: Czars, czars and more czars; Looting the treasury (actually, adding unprecedented debt) to launder money through Unions and other parties; expansion of police state powers usurped by the Patriot Act, seizure of health care, auto manufacturing and other private sector commercial assets, waging war on our ability to produce our own energy through regulations enacted by agencies, incurring unprecedented debt to buy votes.
This is only touching on some of the high points, but anyone who will discard their 'Party" blinders and take a real look will see that even the most revered presidents of the past 60+ years have backed legislation which has undermined the Constitution or set up the framework by which their successors have done so.
What cannot be advanced by the Left has been instituted by the Right, and frankly, I don't care what the parties claim, the damage has been done by both, and always for our 'increased safety' or the most humanitarian reasons.
Unless and until people are willing to discard the pep-rally 'he's a good guy because he is a _____ party member' crap, and realize an pig can call itself an eagle, this will continue until we have no Republic--and we're close now. The founders would not recognize the leviathan we call government--it far exceeds their worst nightmares.
In the current political atmosphere swarms of the uninformed will go vote for the pig because it said it is an eagle, or because the newsreaders on the TV told them so. Until it becomes something where people will look more deeply than the color of the jersey the players are wearing, and see who is doing what with the ball, we all lose.