I was in withdrawal. Seriously.
Dependence Day.
The opening paragraph is rather frightening, but it makes the point. We are in danger of gradually losing our liberties and our unique identity;
"If I am pessimistic about the future of liberty, it is because I am pessimistic about the strength of the English-speaking nations, which have, in profound ways, surrendered to forces at odds with their inheritance. "Declinism" is in the air, but some of us apocalyptic types are way beyond that. The United States is facing nothing so amiable and genteel as Continental-style "decline," but something more like sliding off a cliff..."
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