Dude... This is the United States of America
Land of the free and home of the brave. It is incumbent upon us to live every day in cringing fear of SOMETHING and eagerly give up basic rights so we can live to be afraid of something else tomorrow. There's always a boogie man in the closet. Sometimes it just looks like a Tea Partier...
A very few people own most of the economy and virtually all of the government. These few will do what they want, when they want and the rest don't really matter.
We are just being stampeded into agreeing to more regressive changes in increments. The ones who want the changes can then say "Well, you voted for <some faux Democrat> and he pushed through <some Republican initiative>. You have no right to complain. This is all your fault." And technically, they're right.
What to do? damnifiknow...
