Alas, I agree. Although it probably goes much further back. It just significantly increased with the Patriot Act. It's kind of human nature.
It's just that the system of checks and balances set up in the US Constitution actually works pretty well. Not well enough (not nearly), but surprisingly well. But it did start getting really bad with the Patriot Act.
I have really been hoping things would improve, and I still do hope so. But it's hard holding out hope.
It has gotten quite bad before in the past. The 40s had internment of US citizens, the 50s had McCarthyism. I believe even up through the 70s it was common to take the children of natives away from their parents and give them up for adoption without parental consent. And the complicated changes with regards to how Blacks have been treated in the US are far too complex to summarize.
Sometimes rights do increase. Sometimes things do get better. It could happen.
I hate being monolingual with no aptitude for language acquisition.
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Date: 2010-11-28 10:31 pm (UTC)It's just that the system of checks and balances set up in the US Constitution actually works pretty well. Not well enough (not nearly), but surprisingly well. But it did start getting really bad with the Patriot Act.
I have really been hoping things would improve, and I still do hope so. But it's hard holding out hope.
It has gotten quite bad before in the past. The 40s had internment of US citizens, the 50s had McCarthyism. I believe even up through the 70s it was common to take the children of natives away from their parents and give them up for adoption without parental consent. And the complicated changes with regards to how Blacks have been treated in the US are far too complex to summarize.
Sometimes rights do increase. Sometimes things do get better. It could happen.
I hate being monolingual with no aptitude for language acquisition.