As a Canadian, I often look with sadness at the seemingly unstoppable sliding of our friends in the US into a situation, much like an abusive domestic relationship. Much like these situations, the movement, didn't come suddenly, but was developed with a slow, item by item drift into a situation where everything you say or do, is subject to aggression.
1) One of the common features of an abusive situation, is the aggressor blames every event on the victim, which then leads to punishment. When you view the actions after the Libyan atrocity, the first instinct of the administration was to blame America (the movie). It also was obvious in Bammy's apology tour, where rather than point out that he was talking to murderous thugs, he blamed the victim, (you).
2) Another common feature of dysfunctional relationship, is the abuser, actually getting the victim to buy into the meme, that they are the cause of the abuse, its quite common to hear battered, wives,children and sometimes husbands, claim that they deserved the beatings, because of their own actions. When you see a nation, slavishly following the PC speech codes, you see a people who have bought into the self blame dogma. For instance, nobody blinks an eye anymore when an innocent remark, about blacks, women, Asians etc is responded to, by inappropriate levels of violence, legal action or being ostracized.
3) Restrictions on travel, relationships or personal liberties. One common feature of an abusive relationship is the dominant partner will strictly limit the victim on whom the may associate with, restrict their ability to travel so as to limit those interactions, and forbid certain activities which gives the victim a taste of personal freedom. By limiting your ability to travel through economic means, (you can't afford to travel) or making it as difficult or humiliating as possible (TSA anyone) or further attempts to control the one thing that sets, America apart from the world, personally owned firearms. The last, is the one thing that gives your individuals a hope, until such time as you are forced to give up you symbol of personal freedom, you cannot truly be dominated and abused.
After 32 years in the fire services, I have responded to uncountable numbers of domestic abuse situations, in the majority of these, if it is a long term pattern, you'll see these features.
There is a very real need for your nation to throw off the abuser and move on. Largely this can be done, by tossing the abuser out the door, the next step, is cleaning out the enablers in the system, remember, the enablers such as the TSA, EPA, and various other alphabet agencies are only the tools the abuser, don't find out like we did in Canada, that the enabler agencies were so embedded, that it'll take decades to clear them out..
