[backhoe]

Amen to everything you wrote, and especially this:

We're led by fools, charlatans, and worse.
We're going to pay very dearly for that.

When I was growing up in the fifties, it wasn't just conservatives, but even Democrats and liberals, who understood that the right to speak freely, bear arms, and be secure in your home ( and all the rest of that BOR stuff ) was essential to being and remaining a free, sovereign, and self-governing people.

The "let's outlaw transfats" lunacy is just the latest and worst manifestation ( or is that infestation? ) of the Nanny-State we are sliding into.

Not with a bang, and, alas, not even with a whimper.

[Lurker]

even Democrats and liberals, who understood that the right to speak freely, bear arms, and be secure in your home ( and all the rest of that BOR stuff ) was essential to being and remaining a free, sovereign, and self-governing people.

I remember reading Hubert Humphreys thoughts on the 2nd Amendment a couple decades back. They would drum him out of the Dem party today for what he said back then.

It seems that neither Party wants us to be a free, sovereign, and self-governing people any longer.

Me? I got other ideas about that.

L