For the politically inclined...

Take a look at the comments on this page.

That's the best description of current politics I can find, Reb. 

Tolgak wrote: The size of the government alone isn't what makes the eradication of rights easy, it's how easy that size is manipulated by the crazies out there.

Very true.

Part of this is the danger in trying to combine pop culture with politics. For years both the Republicans and Democrats have attempted to dumb down their messages to reach an increasingly less educated class of people.

So they've created celebrities-such as Palin, or to a lesser extent Obama (let's face it, alot of Obama supports you talk to on the street have no idea what he supports or is against)-to feed off these lesser idealogies.

Politics is a puppet show. Someone in those comments made a very good point-political orientation is insignificant. Government wants to G-R-O-W. It's like a plant, it needs to become larger. It sees itself as the answer to a question no one asked.

I said in a previous thread that the battle isn't between the political parties-that's become a smoke screen of sorts. The people are convinced that if they support left / right things get done.

The battle here is preserving states' and individual rights. Keeping every last one of those amendments in tact is vital. The constitution works as a massive connect the dots of rights. Privacy, for instance, is an implied right that the Supreme Court interpreted through several amendments, including the third and fourth. However, if your patty can convince you even one of those rights are worth sacrificing, you may fail to see the bigger picture that the whole Lego set can collapse under that one right.

Agh, I'll stop. I guess I'm just really fed up with the idiocy of what used to be such am awesome country. It doesn't help that I consistently deal with morons on a daily basis through work and school, lol.

Like I said

I think you don't realize that this country has been dealing with morons who don't understand the need for rights since it's inception.

I'm pretty sure we'll make it through anyway.