[Osborn F Enready]

I think if society respects the law, as in, they can see and agree in overwhelming majority (more than 75%) that the laws are not only sound, but necessary, than society is not much affected except in the reinforcement of the soundness of the system.

I think it sucks to have anything less than a 100% support for laws, but in a nation of 300,000,000 people agreement is almost impossible on anything but basic rights, with even some disagreement there if you ask socialists.

That is why I think our nation is bound for one of three things.

*Servitude, if allowed to continue as it is now, infringing rights at random with no constitutional backing whatsoever.

*Revolt, to remove that corrupt system mentioned in the first sentence above.

or

*Fragmentation, with the union being dissolved by various states or groups of states that no longer will tolerate so much federal control over their citizens. This may be the most likely, but depending on how it happened, the most costly in blood and material.