The fact that many or most Americans do not fear the government is not something to celebrate. The erosion of rights under the Constitution is shocking - if most people understood or cared - and Obama has become worse than Bush.
While Congress hotly debates budgets, just hours away from a fiscal cliff, they have no trouble at all passing a bill (twice) that allows for indefinite imprisonment without trial by a bipartisan majority (NDAA). Don't waste your time protesting to your "elected representative", they won't bother answering ( my experience). And they easily pass a bill to search your email without a warrant - take note of the fact that no one even bats an eye that the FBI went thru tens of thousands of emails from the most prominent military leaders in the country recently. Not even their position saves them...... And most astounding of all? Take a good look at the track record of people crying for gun confiscation and note how disgusted and aggrieved they normally are in preaching that the government is corrupt and unresponsive. Like Michael Moore and his 9/11 work. The government is evil but let's give up our guns? Really? Oh, and the US now puts a higher % of its people in prison than Russia does.
