Your post is lucid and could be quite prophetic.
Your thoughts give me great pause.
We all need to work with ferocity to turn the tide and see to it that limited government conservatives get elected to office. This requires very hard work, and it really comes down to educating people. I'm afraid it may be too late. I believe permanent damage was done even before I was born. The '60s generation' will be known as the origin of our undoing as the free nation that our founding fathers intended.