A good article. A good analogy.
Unfortunately, sometimes renovation is not the answer. Sometimes the foundations are so decayed and crumbling and there is so little worth preserving that it is necessary to tear down and start from scratch. Starting from scratch can be faster, cheaper, easier. Starting from scratch can give you what you really want without being hamstrung by problems that exist in the current structure.
It is possible to build a brand new building that has all the features that the old one used to have, the features you used to cherish, but which have crumbled or decayed. But the new building will be shiny and new.
I often forego clicking on links to townhall.com, the spammiest, most cluttered, pop-uppiest website in the world. I clicked on this one, and after I closed several pop-ups, an image of a reclining person emerged from the bottom of the page, and the page froze. No scrolling up or down allowed. Then more pop-ups.
The Bush’s renovated the GOP and we’ve been losing with Compassionate Liberalism. Reagan won without being mush, not ignoring Conservatives/Libertarians and not blithering about compromise to appeal to mushy moderates.
Speaking of change...
...It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder
Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property.
But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.
This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
Bastiat - "The Law"
DEFUND the plunderers. DEPOPULATE the plunderers.
RINOS and ‘Rats shouldn’t be in a house, senate or white house. They tear things up and bring in diseases.
Getting enough people to care that even Democrat poll packing (if not more sinister things) isn’t enough to win, certainly is part of it.
Mitt, the one chosen to be the high profile standard bearer this year, got a late start and sometimes came across as lukewarm. There was nothing fundamentally impossible about a stronger campaign; the people simply did not DO it.
The GOP is are already screwing up. Legal action against polls with massive voter fraud should be job one. The GOP will spend millions on ads but not that? The next step is to occupy these polls during future elections with lawyers and ex-military poll watchers, while targeting out own strong counties with massive (and legal) get out the vote efforts.