The average Limbaugh-swilling Joe really thinks he's being a good American by supporting all this, whether tacitly or explicity. Of course, the truth is this cretin is probably too stupid to know what to do with freedom or even conceptualize what it means, much less recognize its loss.
It's a terrible time - one can only hope for Fate to step in and sweep these people away.
(BTW the most alarming thing of all is this - a miserable mean-spirited chicken-shit deserter is the CIC.)