Ok say you want to trick a populous into thinking they are moving forward in civil rights and personal liberty while taking away all liberties? first you distract them with a war so they think they are in big danger, now this has to me long running war with no definite enemy just hazey discriptions of people protecting their own homeland from invasion. next make the populous think they are shucking off that horrible leader for what else but a first time minority representative, and if anyone dislikes his policies we will just call them rascist bigots discrediting their entire argument, now while the people are arguing amongst themselves lets just forget to repeal the patriot act, increase spending till it cripples our economy, making everyone dependent on the state for jobs and income, and now we have even more revenue and an even more controllable populous, which will now do whatever our approved media programs tell them.