Long Throw

"Of all the ideas that became the United States, there's a line here that lies at the heart of all the others."
--Benjamin Franklin Gates (National Treasure)

It has long been understood that individuals are prone to cede some amount of liberty and freedom to an abusive government before pushing back. When scribing the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson was careful to note such:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

However, when that breaking point is reached, notes Jefferson:

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

Ben Gates, I think you nailed it...

The abuses and usurpations are mounting at an accelerated pace. I find it difficult not to wonder whether the health care issue pushes things over the top.