What amazes me is the patience being shown by patriots.
So many millions of guns, and so many furious patriots, and not a shot has been fired in anger in defense of our liberties. In an earlier age, there would have been multiple insurrections by now. Amazing.
Either we truly have become a nation of sheep, too law-abiding and scared of the law to ever hurt another soul, or else the crushing tension we all feel has not yet reached the breaking point.
Both options are scary as hell.
Not sure what time frame you refer to by "an earlier age".
However, clear indications were reported that fundamental adherence to the original Constitution was being lost while T. Roosevelt (the first progressive/marxist president) was being permitted to run amok without consequence...They were ignored...
Just as other strident warnings, as the cancer grew until fully metastasized, were widely reported in the 1930's, 1940's, early 1964, and 1988. The only product of all these warnings was a collective national yawn.
Thus a destructive cancer in the Republic's body was allowed to go untreated in the early stages...Now it is stage 4 and terminal with absolutely no possibility of cure...