The nation that built itself on self reliance and defiance of authority is demanding more authority en masse.
Donald Trump sits in the oval office. We're still involved in multiple wars for profit overseas. We live in an era with rampant police brutality, and a system that depends on keeping a high prison population.
Yet you all want more of it. You all want to take away your power and give it to the government because we are incapable of solving problems ourselves.
We are all truly slaves to the system. This is the future you chose. As Mao Tse'tung once said: "Political power grows from the barrel of a gun." Which he said shortly before disarming the population and enslaving them.
Right, that is why countries with little to no guns among the civilian population experience constant political uprisings...