[CarrotAndStick]

And I don't pride myself in being too much of an optimist either. What I'm saying is that America is far too advanced to backtrack from the privileges it enjoys now.

[StolarStorm]

The leaders of Rome thought the same way.

[RetiredArmy]

We don't have to backtrack. The socialist are simply giving it away. I see it more and more each day. I shake my head at it knowing that this country, as it was founded, is dying. Personal freedoms being given away, taken away, by the government, courts. Personal property being stolen away, sold to the highest bidder for more tax money. More taxing without anyway to stop it. It is sad, I agree. I agree that we could take it back. But, it would take a war. A real war. But, people have no stomach for it. And, the imperial federal government would send in it's storm troops to stop anyone who is taking about it. Thomas Jefferson said a little revolution now and then is a good thing (or words to that effect). That would get him arrested today by the same federal government he helped found. Today, he would be a target of the left-winged hate groups. Bet on it.

[The Duke]

What I'm saying is that America is far too advanced to backtrack from the privileges it enjoys now.

You mean like the privilege of not being shaken down at the airport? Oh, wait, we backtracked on that one already!