I think the answer to that question lies in these two words: pain threshold.
The people will finally stand and force the government to back up when their pain threshold is exceeded. I'm convinced that Obamacare will do just that.
I hope you are right. But we have the whole frog in the boiling water analogy thing to deal with. Most Americans, it seems to me, are oblivious to the fact that we even HAVE a government, much less that we have an oppressive one. I see all these zombie mini-series, and all I can do is shake my head and say, I have been living in a kind of zombie-thon for twenty years now. And there just aren’t enough silver bullets in the barrel.