"Do you think the deep state will allow it's power to be removed?"
- Do you mean by asking them nicely or by firing them one by one?
"Remember when the republicans ended Obamacare?"
- I said conservatives and you switched it to people who put an R by their name (cf. McCain) to get elected. We didn't have 50 or 51 honest, conservative Senators, nor did we have a plan.
When you fully give up hope or even trying, the discussion isn't very interesting.
Why don't we ask it another way: When will be a better time than now to start the effort to right this ship?
If you think freedom and liberty, gun rights, speech rights, property rights, etc. will be easier to attain after total economic and societal collapse, I'd say, a. I don't believe that, and b. cite your reasons. Looking around the world and throughout history, when did that work out well for anyone?
NO ONE EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY.
If history cycles itself then the time we are in is Jimmy Carter's Presidency when Paul Volcker started raising interest rates. Democrats controlled the Presidency, House, Senate and Courts, and schools and colleges and media. For a feel of the nation, they showed the headlines of the day in the opening of the movie "Miracle" and it was despair. Not only were the Soviets winning, we were becoming them from the inside out.
Skipping a few details, Reagan emerged from being a not very likely challenger with child-like optimism who never really led in the polls, to winning three landslide elections (including his exit election). One point that I'm getting at is that 12 years later Democrats had to split with the far Left of their party to be competitive nationally, and two years after that with the Gingrich revolution, the Dem President had to join the other side to govern, cutting tax rates and ending welfare as we know it. We had a 25 year economic expansion and you don't do that without a little liberty. [Then Republicans squandered all that had been gained.]
'But Doug, the country is different now.' Of course it is and now we have Hispanics coming over to our side, and blacks, and we own the vote of working people (until the next time we screw it up), and strangely, they have the mega-rich. When [in my lifetime, I'm 65] has there ever been a better time to get around their lock on the media? When have the Left's weaknesses been more exposed? Not since Carter? No. This is far worse for them right now.
