This is clearly all speculation, but I do
know that there are different factions in the U.S. government, especially in the intelligence
community. The NSA actually monitors not only citizens, but businesses and other intelligence agencies / politicians, which makes sense because they
gather so much Intel.
I also heard about a communist faction of the CIA - that happened when the U.S. didn't notice they were given Russians instead of German scientists
and specialists after the spoils of war from World War II.
The last thing I will mention is there has been a lot of social engineering going on in America (we are like test subjects for determining better ways
of government, I think this actually was with good intentions in the later years but it started out in the 1900's as a way to use Freud's psychology
to help fuel business profits - in the later years, Skinner came along, and I'm not really sure what happened (that's only because I wasn't paying
attention during that particular week in History and Systems, not because it isn't easy to research).
So, in my opinion, it is possible that the government is worried about effects stemming from the 60's and 70's involving individualism (which would be
cultural decay), or possibly trying to help progress individualism - to do this, they would need a way to allow individualism (which is a good thing)
without the bad effects of cultural decay...
So this is where we get the gun control and the laws that help with this objective.
However, those are seen as restrictive by the conservatives, especially religious conservatives (who are against individualism and wish to maintain
the male hierarchy and control).
Then, you have individuals similar to myself, who think that having an armed populace is important as a safeguard in case things go unexpectedly with
the good intentions of the government, for example, some future leader takes advantage of the unarmed populace and expanded executive powers, etc.
If you look at Obama, he has a lot of powerful feminine traits - he is clearly allied with a group that wishes to help promote individualism and
making decisions based on science - this would bring us closer to the Ancient Greeks, which were the last empire in history to actually be okay with
gays and women and treat them well, really.
At any rate, all of this, combined with social decay resulting from people being too stupid to figure out right and wrong without being told
explicitly by commandments that have never been explained
(in other words, these people aren't able to figure out right and wrong by
thinking about how they affect others and theselves, so their incompetence in that regard really is dangerous, especially if they become atheists
later, although it is dangerous if they are religious as well - religion, religion, religion. It limits good decision making capabilities).
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