I have to disagree with that — most citizens correctly discerned that, politically speaking, Romney and Obama were the same and decided to keep Obama (letting the prohibition on more than two terms remove him) rather than having the white Obama in for possibly 8 more years. — If you doubt this, consider your knowledge of the globalists gleaned from the current election: the reason there's so much against Trump is because he's not a globalist* and because they can't control him.
Thus we can see that Romney was pushed as the GOP nomination because he was perfectly acceptable to these globalists. Remember all the dirty tricks surrounding the convention in 2012, from the scripted facade of the voice-vote for rules to the bus full of delegates (for Ron Paul, IIRC) circling the convention again and again until they had no time to participate in a meaningful way. (See this, this, and this.)
It’s a one-way trip, now. If I had grand-kids, I’d tell them we peaked in the Reagan years and that’s their legacy, only they may have to water the tree of liberty to reclaim it.
Why do you say this? You make it sound like slavery was never abolished, like no-one has ever thrown off the chains of enslavement.
The ratchet to socialism goes only one way. It’s human nature to surrender freedom for security, not to mention being able to vote money out of your neighbor’s pocket. It’s how democracies end. The only recourse is reset. We lack the requisite resolve. The Obama re-election proved that the parasites have overtaken the host.