The past few years I've been reading a lot of bios about my heroes from the '50s-'70s. Over & over I notice every day things we took for granted back then that would get the SWAT team called on you now. The frog is boiled. It's like the Berlin Wall fell and East Germany came here.
I would quibble with one thing you said. It's not just the liberals who caused this. The statist Republicans hate liberty every bit as much.
My grandad would tell me stories when he was a kid growing up in Queens, NY and how at eight he’d hop a subway to Manhattan to visit his mom at work; or the time he’d ride the subway to Canarsie, go to the beach and ride back. Never once hassled or anything. To him it was no big deal. Now a kid can’t go two blocks to a park to play without the cops showing up at the door. It’s the insane liberal world we live in today.