Dread; verb: 1. To be in terror of. 2. To anticipate with alarm, anxiety or reluctance.
The above definition from the American Heritage Dictionary, though just a line on a page, captures the emotion of today's concerned patriot. As a lover of Freedom, I, and many others, recognized what a disaster this administration would be, but progressivism, pre-Barack, was obscure, and few sensed peril in the words "hope and change." Progress and fascism were the taint of academia whose reach, though benighted, waned before virtue... There was always the Constitution. Designed to bar evil men from evil acts, "chains" were its yoke; law and common sense. It states on our currency that we trust in God, and it didn't seem plausible that freedom had a lifespan, for freedom is life and makes its home here.