+ 1 This is the real argument right here. If you completely understand this^ and disagree.. YOU are living in the wrong country. "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams
Yes, nice words. And yet, liberty has routinely denied to many groups in our grand history. Only now are we getting close to that which Samuel Adams described.
Not quite. Today all men share one thing in common. We are all slaves. And what's worse, we asked for it.
Perhaps it is you that feels enslaved. Many conservatives do these days, and the ability to exploit women and brown people wane.
Our government is such a broad statement, do you mean local, county, state or federal government? What you said is so broad as to be nonsensical.