As long as the 2nd amendment is adhered to it will never get as bad as the author seems to think it will get. I read a Robert Heinlein back in the 1970's on how the government had made marijuana totally legal. The rationale was it was better to have 25% or more of the general populace stoned so as not to care what the government does. The enemy was a group calle Pan-Asians, actually Chinese if you read deeper. My point is that what one person writes about what might happen is mere specualtion on their part. Take the money, I mean profit, out of politics and the politicians will disappear to be replaced by civil servants as defined in The Federalist Papers. Semper FI