[ancorevard]

We need a larger time frame to put our world in its proper perspective.

Freedom, including freedom of the press, is an anomaly in the history of the human race. That it came about is pretty much a miracle, there is nothing natural about it. And there is nothing natural about keeping it. You have to fight hard not to loose it.

The US in this perspective has been a large force for freedom in the world. But that can change any moment. There are forces within US that wish the Constitution would just go away.

That said, the US government is still a far far cry from being the totalitarian dictator the Chinese Communist Party currently is in China.