The Left is the party of control freaks.

Governments are analgous to family life, writ large!

Pearl:  “Earl, go fill up the car. It has less than a quarter of a tank.”
Earl:  “Dammit, I`m busy in the garage w all these other projects, besides the damn car has got a fuel warning light.  Bring me another beer.”
Pearl: “But, but, the radio says the river next to us may flood over the banks, anytime!!!!!”
Earl:  “Shaddup you!  The radio don`t know dick and, besides, the gas stations are open all night...”
Pearl:  “EARL, WAKE UP!  Water is pouring thru the windows----
Earl and Pearl:  “Glub, glub, glub, glub.......

That is how government works.........................

That is one of the best and most concise articles on the subject I’ve read in a long time. This is another reason we need to put lots of effort into our local races in addition to the presidential race. We desperately need to put intelligent, wise people who will fight this modern version of communism that is trying to take our rights and resources a bit at a time.

It is time to end it--it was time ten years ago when Clinton turned the south western coal fields into a preserve so that we can’t touch it--it was time when Jimmy Carter was screwing us while wearing a cardigan sweater it was time when Anwar became a household word.

I think we will have to fall into a deep recession before our ‘leaders???’ get their heads out of their asses.

I must off!

If politicians were intelligent, I’d say we are holding our energy reserves for the future. Unfortunately, most of them have the attention-span of a 3 yo and the intelligence of an Afghan puppy. *SIGH*

Edd, I think you are very right--I think however it is going to be a long time as politics come and go but the DC establishment is in place for years to come.  The State Department isn’t run by anybody but insiders and all of DC is a liberal/socialist mecca.  The best we have every been able to to is stave off the decline.
I fear it is game over and lights out and no amount of voting or being involved on even the local level is going to change much of anything.  My bet is that within a few years the (un) fairness doctrine will be the law of the land, if you do not fit the liberal mold and play ball you will find yourself unemployed, homeless or in prison.

Game over-lights out and folks we are fucked.  For all the talk about “rights” be it 1st amendment or second--or any of the top ten they have pretty much been proven to be at the beck and call of a controlling few and it is NOT us.  We hitched our star to the Republicans and that was just like marrying the wrong woman--you don’t control a woman and you don’t own a woman you can only hope that she will love and respect your beliefs as she does her own--if not disaster ensues. 
We are travelers at the gate, in the city is disease and on the path is famine and we must go one way or the other because we cannot live our days here at the gate.

Sierrahome—I’ve been saying that for some time.  There’s a ratchet effect to the legislative process, and it only ratchets one way, toward ever-increasing control over everything, including civil liberties.

In 50 years, the US will be a socialist state along European lines—regardless of which party gains power in the near term.  Americans are getting used to government handouts; too many want the nanny state.  Nobody (especially our Marxist-led schools) is bothering to explain what’s at stake.  The abstract notion of personal liberty is always trumped by the perceived need for short-term security and shelter.

In 150 - 200 years, history books will note the curious American experiment with classic liberal democracy (if they’re allowed to note it at all).  “Curious” because such an idealistic system is not—given the broad sweep of history—the historical norm.  Centralized government is the norm, whether it be run by a tyrant or a bureaucracy.  The American dream will be noted as an abnormal blip in history, a period of madness—“what were they thinking?”

Yep, we’re fooked.  Barring an armed revolution that burns away the accumulated underbrush of wooly-headed polictical and social philosophy—a massive “technical correction to the market"-- the ratchet effect will win out.

Am I pessimistic?  Yes, but the advantage of pessimism is that you’re pleasantly surprised when things go well.

Another way to look at it is that we lack the civilzational confidence to fight for what we believe in.  And I mean fight in the literal sense.

Bob1, we the few....
I’m thinking a revolution is not far off.
I hope it occurs before it is too late, if it is not already.

Another way to look at this: all systems tend toward entropy.

“ the advantage of pessimism is that you’re pleasantly surprised when things go well.”

well, yeah.  and the advantage of optimism is it gives ya something to get up in the morning for.
I’m not interested in simply being a witness to the decline of Human Freedom.