[RedHeeler]

Great post, nathanbedford. I must offer, that US President Ronald Reagan had an audience of rational, literate and concerned voters. Where are such voters, to be found, today- tomorrow or in the near future? The present polling booths are a labyrinth of soul-less corruption. I am not without fortitude, and fully believe that re-sustaining Our Republic is possible, if only by survival of the fittest.

[nathanbedford]

In addition to changing the subject, the Democrats like to change the forum which, when coupled with the cultural changes you have described, makes it very difficult for Reagan's message to penetrate.

By changing the forum I mean that the left tends to drag issues from the smallest most democratic political unit to the largest least democratic political unit such as from city to State then to federal and on to the United Nations. They also try to change the nature of the forum along the way so we go from a representative system at city level, perhaps a mayor council arrangement, to a bureaucratic entity which may or may not be elected, such as a zoning board or a Housing Authority. As we move up the food chain in size we find the left pushes political questions away from the people off to ever more remote bureaucracies or to unelected judges.

The ideal forum for the left is a totally unelected, supranational bureaucracy with power that extends down to the city level.

I suggest we take a page out of the left's penchant for forum shopping and do a little bit of choosing of forums ourselves but in a wholly constitutional context:

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A process which would place us in a far more sanguine demographic landscape with much better chances to prevail.