Watching History Happen

With the Installation of Bolton you can see more of the trend of operating outside of the government "of the people, for the people and by the people." Connected with things like invading sovereign countries Iraq (Poland); taking advantage of the attacks of September eleventh (Reichstag fire); restricting civil rights and liberties via the Patriot Act (Reichstag Fire Decree); the establishment of DHS (Gestapo), encouraging people to spy on their neighbors; the "for us or against us mentality" and "restoring the US" (The Third Reich) ; the suppression of "deviant art" and the ostracizing of homosexuality (Nuremberg Laws)
Though it is all right before our eyes, right now, people are more concerned about who will win Rock Star INXS. Seventy five years from now people will be looking at US and British citizens of the first decades of the new millennium and ask, just as they did of the German citizens and the Italian citizens of the of the 30s. "How did you let this happen?"