Why do you think the slimy Republican Uni-party slugs care about any ones rights? Have they behaved like they wanted to protect any ones rights?
Not much since Eisenhower. They did let the AWB sunset, but that wasn't pro-active. All else has been pretty much ineffective or smoke and mirrors.
Much of what they have done has had such glaring opportunities for abuse, yet people were roundly howled at for opposing those measures (like the Patriot Act).
People need to always look at such measures and imagine what their worst enemies would do with that power, unchecked, and then act/vote accordingly.
So much got through because people thought it would be used for "good"...and has since been turned on us.
No. But get outside of Washington, DC and things get closer to the people and more conservative. Repubs have made gains in state houses and state legislatures and in a lot of county/city governments.
Sure, the lib states like Illinois, Kalifornia, NY remain problems but broke states can't attract industry and jobs and their influence will continue to diminish - I hope.
What we need is a Republican strongman to brush aside the GOPe DC liberal clones and the MSM. A conservative version of 0bama or Hugo Chavez that govern fearlessly and as may be needed to revitalize America - to make it great again, so to speak. An updated Reagan, maybe. So that's a Trump....or a Cruz, as I see it.