....In addition, if 'the whole thing falls apart' then we as a nation are fucked.
As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....
I'm one of you, too. I'm in my 70s and I feel fortunate that to have lived in this country when we were indeed free and had no nanny state to look over our shoulders. Why do I have to pay more for a plastic bucket because there is someone so dumb they don't keep their babies out if it. How much money, in time and manpower did it cost to mandate that all buckets have safety labels on them. Just one instance of the Nanny State. It never stops. My mantra has been for many years; Every day the city makes new laws, the county makes new laws, the State makes new laws and the Congress makes new laws. Every one of those laws is something you could do yesterday but can not do tomorrow. Old laws are never removed. At what point are all of our freedoms gone? Throw mission creep into the mix and you end up with out of control organizations like the NSA. The poeple who claim "I have nothing to hide are precisely the people who allow this to happen. They throw away their rights to say no to searching their homes and vehicles and don't believe the 5th amendment is needed. These were and are rights that were given to all of us and I am saddened to see how they are thrown away by uneducated people and stolen by power hungry politicians of both parties.