>One of the things sapping the gray matter of the American mind is the blurring of reality and fantasy. Just my thought.
Can you blame people from wanting to escape a reality where:
- The higher-law of a Constitution is routinely ignored in favor of the lesser-law,
- The ‘public servant’ known as a police-officer may break into a house w/o a warrant [think SWAT-teams and ‘wrong address’ stories]
- The ‘public servant’ known as a police officer may assault, kidnap, or simply execute you for exercising your lawful rights [COSTCO, the MI open-carry, etc]
- The ‘public servants’ known as the Legislature may, contrary to both popular wishes AND Constitutional authority pass laws [TARP, Obamacare, etc]
- The Supreme Court may decree what the Constitution says, thereby becoming a super-legislature; they have virtually eliminated the 5th Amendment prohibition against unjust compensation for property [Keelo v. New England]; they have created new-law out of whole-cloth [the illegalization of anti-abortion laws in Roe v. Wade]; They have made the 4th Amendment of no effect by allowing no-knock warrants & allowing police search & seizure on “probable-cause” (proper reading of the 4th Amendment is that the warrant authorizing police action may be issued on ‘probable cause’)
- The politicians try to “spend our way out of debt”... using my money, not their own.
- The idea of standing up to/against authority is an anathema to the “average citizen” because they have been conditioned to believe that the very position of authority justifies that person’s use of ANY authority. [i.e. school bannings of weapons, despite the fact that is a FEDERAL OFFENSE under this law: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000241——000-.html ]
I go outside and pull weeds.
We wouldn’t be in such a mess now, if we were grounded in reality instead of chasing escapes.
Murkowski is a self-centered, selfish, loser. Amazing how many politicians (Barney Frank), have been in office for decades because Americans were not paying attention.