These last several years seem like they were nothing more than the sad, slow decent of our country into the cesspool. Until recently I had no idea just how far we’d fallen.
Others believe we have not fallen at all. The see the demise of freedoms and liberty as tyranny’s coin of passage. The price of admission if we are to achieve ‘world peace’.
Here is an interesting ‘organizational’ chart that I saw while poking around. It’s a little flawed, but does introduce an interesting way to view how freedom crushing policies can emerge. (have emerged?)
If we can imagine the membership’ of the Policy Makers is fluid, then the rest of the diagram is much more representative of reality.