I have to say, I disagree with throwing the principle out the window. <br> <br>I think the way to reach people isn't necessarily going to be a big loud violent revolution, but a very subtle touch involving patience, reason and an open mind, to get people, and in turn politicians, to stop leaning towards these socialist police-state trends. <br> <br>It's the kind of subtle cultural revolution that is already underway because of the Internet and gaming, but it's coming to a standstill the more America trades it's liberty for safety that just doesn't come guaranteed when the American government, which never does anything efficiently, tries to protect the public from itself in the name of politicians feeding off the People's endeavor. <br> <br>And I think as we go into the next generation after mine, you're going to see alot of people not willing to turn to religion to fix these problems either and decide everything for them. <br> <br>America needs a fine-tuning but it could easily spiral out of control if it doesn't get it and a Democratic president favoring socialist policies the government can't support because of our culture, racks up the national debt even further. Causing more abuse and fucktardery by the Fed that will throw things out of whack even more. Honestly, I'm beginning to think that in some cases, corporations don't use lobbyists because they are greedy pricks, nor that it's the most efficient and necessary way to survive, but that the truth lies somewhere in between. <br> <br>This cigarette tax thing is just a symptom of a bigger problem. I'm just crazy enough to pray a group of *artists* are what can point these problems out objectively without being rabidly attacked by their political and religious opponents, rather than a scientist, politician or priest who is born with the charisma and misguided intentions to gain the power to set us back a few decades, similar to when the Library of Alexandria was burned down in ancient times. <br> <br>Yeah, I'm rambling, but I think that wall of text comes closer to why Death_Claw has the views on things that he does. It's getting to the point that I personally abhor public/government workers and instructors below a higher education level, as much or more than the military becoming more puppets for agendas instead of real defense. I'm not even out of college and already I'm trying to think of how I can avoid the majority rather than change it, and keep not necessarily total freedom with inalienable rights, but live in a society that doesn't presume to protect me from myself because of a very large mass of uninformed, ignorant people that don't think critically. <br> <br>...Yeah, it's 3 in the morning and I'm thinking too much.