What did the leaders in Rome do? They distracted the populace, by having games in the Coliseum, to hide their own deviousness.
Its our Media that are the real traitors - refusing to do their jobs and report the news, and instead following their leftist agenda to engineer it.
Its their job to keep the frog in the pot and happy till the water boils and they do it willingly. The School teachers do the same thing to the children- ensuring they never learn to think for themselves, that they value dependence. We haven't gotten the govt we deserve because they are using human frailness against us, and have been for so many years, that half the population can't recognize freedom, desire it, or even understand why we are willing to die for it.
Democracy only works with an educated populace and the left deprived us of that. That isn't my fault. And is isn't the fault of anyone here. This rot started in the 1880s with the first nationwide effort at public schools. It started with HOW Lincoln won the Civil war and reformed the union. It started with the public election of Senators ( and sorry ladies) women's suffrage. It continued with FDRs Blue Eagle Laws and entitlements, with the Baby Boomers embrace of SSI, and then made worse by Johnson and his great Society programs. By Nixon the dollar was off the gold Standard. I was three then. Does anyone think we weren't full off the rails by then? Reagan was an odd blip, a deliberate pacification perhaps, to lull those awake back to sleep. They own the levers, they controlled the media then - absolutely. There was no internet. You know only what the big three and the NYT told you. Yes, we are getting the govt we deserve, because THEY made these people what they are - deliberately and with malice. .They made them things who willingly admit that "live and let live" is a philosophy they will reject. They are Reavers. Narcissists, Monsters. Sociopaths.
With the public schools, intelligentsia, Labor Unions, Hollywood, journalism and govt all working to at first import and then create and turn out these vermin, these feral humans, at the greatest rate possible and its our fault now in the modern day we cannot stem the tide? No I don't think so. Yes, vigilance may have stopped them- probably did, but then they waited and tried again, after more of their rot had spread in other areas. This battle was fought and lost before we were born. The cancer got its beachhead, and took root, and spread, speaking the fair words of the devil, wearing civility and kindness as its costume. We never had a chance, because our society was so tolerant, because we were so free. Hopefully in the New Republic it will mean a death sentence to suggest the Constitution be understood in any terms but the original, a hanging offense to suggest another mans labor can be confiscated for the "common good of all", and Nullification will be included in the Constitution such that any law nullified by 25% of the states results in the automatic death of all representatives who voted for it, all Jurists who upheld it, and the President who signed it.