My opinion is that just as Eisenhower warned many years ago, there is a military-industrial complex that has taken a great deal of power away from the people and their elected representatives.

I also think that Americans across the political spectrum are horribly blase about the Bill of Rights in toto. People just don't care about civil liberties. Were the 4th Amendment to be proposed today it would not pass.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.