Ignoring the constitution, flagrantly tearing down the checks and balances that are in place to moderate unbridled greed in the guise of capitalism, and now ignoring international law by executing without process.

You summarized the crisis (yes crisis) succinctly.

War on Drugs. I was a young adult when this 'war' began. It was a Nixon ploy to distract from the real war in Vietnam. We thought we had it bad with Nixon ("if the president does it then it's legal"). Multiply that by 100. Nixon met resistance and was called to account. No one calls this administration to account.

I feel sorry for the 50+% of Americans who are too smart and responsible to be panted with the scarlet letter that comes with the actions of the current abomination of and administration.

Not enough of us stand up. It is scary, because there are potential repercussions for speaking the truth--and who knows what these repercussions will be in the future.

I don't know if you follow @preparedwombat, but he is good on this. I get my charge (and sometimes depressed) when I read his blog.