It saddens me to say it but "Bread and Circuses" will keep the sheeple from standing up to the ever increasing big government encroachments on our liberties and our "Unalienable" rights. As long as the government doesn't interrupt the cable service and the welfare checks (including social security, medicare, farm subsidies etc.)keep coming in the mail there will be no revolution, no major public outcry. Oh sure, there will be the occasional nut case who holes up in his "Compound" and has to be subdued (burned out) by federal agents for refusing to pay his taxes, digging a well or draining the marsh without permission or for having too many of the wrong type of something or other that the feds have decided is illegal. You'll hear all about it on the ten o'clock news. But there will be no popular support for getting back to the constitutional Republic this country once was unless the welfare checks and the ESPN suddenly stop.
Call me cynical, but I truly believe it.
You may have a point there. A well fed slave is a happy servant, I guess. But one can always hope.