As the ancient curse goes "May you live in interesting times". Some of us have enough life experience to realize that we are watching something truly extraordinary and the other 80% are sleeping through the whole thing. At this very moment the major corporations who own and operate our government (executive and legislative) and media are orchestrating the careful dismantling of a great and iconic nation that took 300 years and the deaths of millions of patriot citizens in great wars. This Neocon/Democrat plan has been forming behind the scenes for the last 15 years. Break the middle class and form a new pan North American entity with a ruling class (the professional politicians see themselves in this role) and a massive lower wage class that will no longer challenge for upward mobility but look to the state for their well being in every way. A recipe for a new Nirvana (if you happen to be in that new ruling class). This is the dream. We are starting to see signs that the great middle class is now just starting to feel that they can rise up and do something to stop the professional politician class.