The Long Slide

Where have we gone?

1. Our government can now arrest and hold people without trial, indefinitely.
2. Key portions of our government are now no longer transparent, and can't be questioned.
3. No business or action can any longer infringe upon any minor group, in any manner.
4. The government now does, defacto, control matters of life or death related to health (and older Americans are now going to have to just get used to the problems that arise with aging according to one government mouth piece.)
5. States can no longer initiate law to move enforce law that is federal responsibility to uphold, but on which the federal government refuses to move.
6. The federal government can seize private companies and operate them without any legal standing to do so.
7. The federal government can seize computer records of any entity they desire, without any warrant, or judge's order. And then can do the same to any person connected in any way to that organization. And no one can talk about it having happened.
8. Social Justice, Ecological Justice and Collective Salvation have replaced Individual Right, Constitutional governance, and God inspired living.
9. Our president has close ties with people from the Weather Underground, Student Democratic Society, the Communist party of the US and other extreme radicals. How is it one person can have so much connection with such individuals (and have placed so many of them so highly in his administration) without he not having their views?
10. Have a president who has seized funds from a company, for a "disaster" that can no longer be found? Where is the oil from the spill? Even the press is now wondering where the oil is...
11. Have a government run more and more by appointed czars, many of which have not been "vetted" by the Congress.
12. Have judges "making" law.
13. Have states that abrogate the Constitutional structure of the Electoral College which will ultimately silence small states, and rural areas. Large states, and large metropolitan areas will determine presidential selection.
14. Have a "free press" which has shown itself, definitively, to be a mouthpiece for a party and a candidate.


When will we, as a people, say "enough" and stop this slide into madness??