Maybe not. But if so we should fight. Thus far, we have not. We should fight our own battles. Not cower and cringe and expect some one else to fight them for us.
We should fight our own battles.
1) How did it go in Germany? First they came for the Jew, but it was not my battle, then they came for............. When they came for me, there was no one left to help.
2) Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
I think our Founding Fathers were virtuous. But it was when they jumped the mental hurdle that the British were going to take everything away from them that they finally went to war.