Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.
Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
Americans are fed up with how things are going in the country right now. They see more job losses, rising debt and plummeting home sales. They feel let down by a government that passes one 2,000-page, trillion-dollar law after another instead of focusing on addressing the problems Americans worry about every day.
When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Americans have discovered fear.
Too many Americans mistrust their government. And unnecessary government secrecy feeds this mistrust.
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.