Ok,
I have been thinking of this for a few days now, and it just is not getting any easier to swallow. I don't even know what to say.
I look at our society and see a nation, not ruled by laws, but instead ruled by "regulation". We, the citizenry no longer have a say in our government, but instead are at the whim of whatever bureaucrat decides their ideas are right and we must all live with them.
There are several people complaining about "income inequality" but what is not discussed is "power inequality". We live in a nation where one person can decide how we live our lives. That sounds much more like a monarchy than a constitutional republic. Did we do this to ourselves?
The better question is ... what do we do about it? There are so many battles to fight on so many fronts with this form of government, that it is becoming impossible to defend ourselves from the raging culture war that I don't even know what to do. I have written local officials (live in Illinois so that is pretty useless). I am thinking of moving my company and the business I manage out of the state of Illinois to somewhere else and am looking at that now, but as for the nation I was born to, aside from the power of my vote, it is getting hard to win this defensive battle for the soul of the American people.
I want to fight, but with so many battles, it is hard to not get hit when being fired upon from all sides.