With all due respect, GfS, I would make one small, but all important correction.

"...and they ALL fell, miserably, and from Europe our forefathers fled, and attempted to start a free country, where the individual was sovereign...but alas, the idiots keep popping up, trying to take us back down, and repeat the same bullshit..."

If they were idiots, they would be easy enough to outsmart. Don't underestimate them. They know what they are doing in the same way a cunning and predatory animal knows what it's doing.

That's the key. They're predators.

Don Firth