[Gene Eric]

I just caught this excerpt on C-Span, Mike Pence speaking earlier today at a Federalist Society Convention:

People no longer feel like they're being asked; [they] feel like they're being told. Our nation finds itself too often of late in a position of a dog whose duty it is not to ask why, the why is too elevated for his nature, just simply obey. But America is not a dog. and does not require a 'because I said so jurisprudence'.

[metmom]

People no longer feel like they're being asked; [they] feel like they're being told.

I'd correct him on that. We ARE no longer being asked; we ARE being told.

It's well past feeling like it.

[brytlea]

Yup, we are not sheep to be herded around. We are supposed to be a free people with elected officials. I suspect (At least I hope) the the uproar over this is just the tip of the iceberg (altho on my FB page, when I posted an article) there were still a lot of bleating sheep, “We have to be safe!”