but when most of the population is supine, unorganized (nor willing to become so), thus "un-contending"
--isn't that just another variant of social pathology?
(Especially when the ones who Are organizing for next Action: are seeking to intensify and expand loss of remaining liberties--and threatening to do so via guns and anarchy by-any-other name.)

ie.. a question I can't begin to answer seems relevant to this mass-unconsciousness:
Are the mercenary sports franchises, the Tee Vee pot-boilers, shopping and other soporifics,
precisely while more and more civil Rights are daily eroding..
actually the kind of 'liff' which a plurality of Muricans Will tolerate indefinitely?

(That such a question would even come up..is, I aver:already a kind of litmus and not the sort which just indicates H+ or OH- ion concentrations.)

And if one makes that deduction: does that realization not further increase the distrust of all anonymous people 'around one'--local and nationwide?

And suppose you could get 100K marchers to DC? a State Capital? under the rubric 'return our democracy'--and much of the infotainment/meeja dubs these, 'commyunists'? [Again!!]

Do You 'trust' Your 'neighborhood' ?? (beyond the %tiny you may often associate with.)
See, I think that the First-casualty of these early/successful attacks on basic rights has already sowed new levels of Mis-Trust. Inexorably.



Bottom-line *for Me* is: the growing evidence that you Could Not Pass THE BILL OF RIGHTS 'now'==ALREADY.
(And likely the case: quite BEFORE 2014)

We're in a lot more trouble-with-a-capital-T than.. pool-playing in River City.
(And nobody is Feeling Lucky, near as I can 'tell') :-/