An Ill Wind Blowing Though the Nation

There is an Ill wind blowing through this country. Sometimes incorporating the language of national security and international competitiveness, sometimes the language of equity, it is relentlessly stripping us of our personal freedoms and civil liberties while lowering the standard of living of the majority of the population while leaving the concentration of wealth at the top untouched. Wherever we go, whether it is on the job, in school, moving from place to place or participating in recreation or civic activity, we feel the weight of its surveillance and if we protest, the iron hand of police power. The United states of America, 2102. This is NOT what Democracy looks like