I’ll probably get flamed for this, but I’m hearing a lot of self-imposed amnesia. Doesn’t anyone remember the “Contract With America” a few short years ago? All those “conservative” firebrands who took over the Congress along with Newt Gingrich? How long did it take for them to drink the Kool-Aid? The best thing to have come out of that ballot box “revolution” was ironically Bill Clinton signing the Welfare Reform Act. The worst was a deaf, dumb, and blind CIA which led to 9/11. Remember Porter Goss and his short-lived attempt to “clean out” the agency? I think it lasted about one week before the entire circus tent folded in on him. “Bloodless” revolutions make great headlines and sell advertising, but they don’t get the job done. It didn’t then, and it won’t now. “Pied pipers” and the cult of personality may sell movies and Americans are very comfortable with those things, as our adversaries know and exploit, but they won’t rescue a nation in distress. Call me a fatalist, but at some point after the ballot box “high” wears off, and the smoke clears, and the “pied pipers” have broken attendance records, the American people are once again going to have to reconcile themselves to reality. The Kool-Aid in D.C. will have been passed around and the “freshmen” will have partaken of it. For those who will refuse to drink, we will be treated to a series of scandals and disclosures leading to their “resignations”. Remember the Republican Party is quick to fall on its sword, it has such an exaggerated sense of loyalty to Marquis of Queensbury Rules. So, the eight hundred pound elephant in the room will remain: Is serfdom and a total loss of sovereignty and liberty a fair price to pay for keeping all of our little comforts, and being told by the Supreme Court that Sharia law and the U.N. really have our best interests at heart?
Excellent point and one that’s been on my mind lately as well. But since we are eventually going to have a real revolution, one with real shooting and bloodshed, we might as well give the peaceful revolution one more shot. If the Washington elite cannot see what is coming, then they deserve to reap the whirlwind.