My answer to a question that was posed regarding whether our nation is being destroyed

I believe that this once great nation has already been destroyed.

Once, we were a nation of individuals. The leaders were well read, literate, opinionated, and passionate. They had faults, and both good and bad ideas. There were always disagreements, dirty politics, subversives, and monarchists. But the majority of the founders felt it necessary to place the new government in its proper place. To ensure that it would not encroach upon the rights of its citizens, nor to attempt to provide anything other than was absolutely necessary to function as a uniting government. They realized that anything more would lead to tyranny.

Today we have much, MUCH more. Today we have a nanny state. a Federal government that even Hamilton may have been sick to see. Today we are not individuals in a self-governing union. The states are denied their 10th amendment right to make their own laws. Every issue becomes a national issue. Abortion, education, euthanasia, gay marriage, ad infinitum. Laws are made nationally that should be left up to the states. In fact, many "laws" regarding these hot-button issues are not actually laws. They are edicts passed down from a tyrannical court system that has usurped far more power than was relegated them by the Constitution. The Presidency can issue executive orders. The Legislators are interested only in obtaining and retaining power. All three branches have ceased to check or balance the others. This is tyranny.

We are a nation of sheep. we do what we are told, we pay confiscatory taxes that would have sparked revolution had they not been introduced piecemeal. We have no right to own property because if we don't pay the taxes on the land, the government can take it away. Indeed, the property we are allowed to occupy can be taken from us at the drop of a bureaucrat hat if they think that knocking down our 2 bed 1 bath home and putting up a strip mall will net more taxes for the "public good".

No longer do we govern ourselves. No longer does freedom ring. Big Brother is realized in the way we are forced to think. You must be "politically correct" or suffer the wrath of a tyrannical government.

One by one our constitutional rights have been stripped from us, while at the same time we are told that all is well. We are assured that we need a bigger government. More should be done. People need to be taken care of. It's for the children. It's for our safety. It's for our own good.

Yes. The damage is already done. The United States has been successfully destroyed. In it's place is the United Bureaucracy of Blissful Socialists.

And that's the trouble. Too many people like it this way.