For many years, successive American governments have been abusing and grossly neglecting their position as the supposed protector of the American people. To use an apt analogy, the American people find themselves in the tragic role of 'battered wife' to their 'violent husband' of a government. Statistics show that battered wives that fail to find the will to remove themselves from a destructive relationship, who return time and again to their husbands, who refuse to see reality and delude themselves with the belief that things will get better - that 'he is a good man at heart' - succeed only in reducing what little respect their violent husbands had for them, and ultimately extinguishing it completely. In such scenarios, and particularly when the husband is of a psychopathic nature, he can come to see his wife as entirely less than human, a 'thing' denuded of any humanity whose only purpose is to be used and abused as his deranged mind sees fit. It goes without saying that the fate of a person (or group of people) viewed as less than human by another more powerful person (or group of people) is often dire.
