Is the US headed towards a socialist government?

[kandrathe]

In addition to being stupendously exaggerated (The largest fraud? On any nation? Ever? Really? Perpetual servitude?), I'm really starting to wonder if you actually believe in the idea of democracy, or simply equate liberty directly with low taxes. This amendment, and every other, was passed by an *elected* congress, using authority explicitly granted to them under the Constitution of the United States. If any other *elected* congress chose to repeal that amendment, at any time since its passing, that would have been within their rights as well, and yet they have not. I am also tickled by the dissent from Brown on that case:

Not low taxes, but more the intrusion of the government into every aspect of peoples lives. It would not surprise me if part of the new New Deal included something like a way to cut down on unplanned pregnancy, and disease. Let's put a tax on the sex act. Make it illegal to not declare your intimacies.