Abuse of Powers

The Democratic Underground makes a case for why our current government should be abolished.

…Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends (our unalienable rights), it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government… When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same objective, evinces a design to reduce {the people} under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government… from the U.S. Declaration of Independence – July 4th, 1776