Interesting article, but revolutionaries such as Lenin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, and Obama do not rise to dictatorial power through reason and debate.
Anyone who thinks it cannot happen here is a fool. Anyone who thinks the situation is not already destabilized in preparation for just such an event isn’t paying attention. Remember that Marius, Sulla, and Caesar each led destabilizing dictatorships PRIOR to the irrevocable fall of the Republic under Octavian. After the years of infighting and the Civil Wars, the Roman people were actually happy to see the Republic go - in exchange for order.
I think at least in part Liberalism is going to implode this cycle because many Liberals will be throwing an infantile temper-tantrum over the fact that Obama was not able to deliver up their Socialist Nirvana within four years.
What concerns me about the death of liberalism, is how much more damage it will do before it is truly buried. Like some diseased corpse catapulted over the parapets in a medieval seige - no longer able to raise a hand against it's enemies, the rotting corpse is still able to inflict tremendous damage, and to do so in an insidious, honorless fashion.
Unhappily, “liberalism” is a synthesis of ideas in search of a methodology. The current methodology of liberalism is clearly in its death throes. But ideas, once successfully promulgated and entrenched, are almost impossible to kill. To use a familiar metaphor, the shadow once vanquished will take a new form and begin to grow again.
Amusing that we run out of money just as their groomed and chosen messiah was inaugurated.
I'm not sayin... I'm just sayin.
Dead like a rattlesnake maybe.