I think most people are beginning to feel the same way. There are enormous issues facing this country and they're all coming to a head in the same time period. If you look at history it either means a paradigm shift in a society, such as russia had a few years ago, or we slide further into tyranny. At this point I think its pretty hard to tell which way we will go. The elites tend to like to operate in secrecy and while they certainly want to remove some of our unalienable rights, they usually don't publicly say so. But its clear the rich want to invade every aspect of our lives through either government intimidation or through financial ruin.
And don't kid yourselves. If we want to retain these unalienable rights we will have to fight for them. Its nice to be pro peace or anti violence but history teaches us that nothing is ever resolved attempts at peaceful resolution. It would be nice if democracy could be made to work but it seems to always break down when money becomes an issue.