Well for me it was heartbreaking. It was 2008. I was full of Hope and praying for Change. I voted for Obama. I figured he was probably lying about most of what he said but, hey, if he even went in that direction it'd be terrific.

In the preceeding years he violated every singular solitary compaign promise he made, legally sanctioned the indefinite detention of American citizens, started killing with drones on foreign soil, and surveilling with them domestically and in a fascist flourish began signing into law bills quite literally written by corporate lawyers. He makes Bush look like a Weather Underground operative.

The police state, in the time since, has become completely out of control. I see another news story about police brutality or straight homicide with a badge every day. They're passing out 13,000 Mine Resistant Armored Personell vehicles domestically this year. Our post office is putting in orders for machine guns.

While marijuana is slowly approaching legalization, fascist authoritarian market restrictions in Canada have already handed their entire medical market over to a small handful of supercorporations and legislation to do the same is already in the works here in California, where I cultivate medical marijuana as a livlihood. So my American Dream of 40 acres and a bong is on shakey ground, too.

But then again, I'm American, and America isn't a Democracy, it's an Oligarchy. Your nation is also most likely an Oligarchy, though I can't say as I know.