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As a historian I see cycles. They aren't always exactly the same but reasonably close. We are in a Progressive cycle like that of 1902-1921. Some are longer---the Republican cycle (which was pretty liberal) after the Civil War lasted almost 35 years, and before that, the Dems dominated---in a way we can't comprehend---the US from 1826-1860---with virtually no credible opposition.

It wouldn't call it a suggestion but an understanding of where we are, and until the majority begins to shift, nothing will change. In the meantime, we need to make sure that we don't throw away what few hard-won victories we have in desperation "Hail Mary's." The wheel always turns, but it is possible to break the wheel.

Oh! A Historian! Pardon me.

So you also should know that only about 30% of the colonists supported the revolution enough to put their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor on the line to win our independence.

With that said, your cycles are not born to an equilibrium of the balanced pendulum swing. The pendulum has been culturally weighted to the left ever since the fight was over and those who refused to accept a ruling of individual liberty have been picking away at it ever since, for their own self aggrandizement. Ergo the progressives of many names through the years but still the same in principle.

On a sliding scale, we first went to almost a pure anarchist bent with the Articles of Confederation by the second Constitutional Congress. That didn’t work very well because it was almost institutionalized anarchy as for a union of states and the federal government was nothing more than a referee with no powers to settle disputes.

So now we find ourselves in the situation of sliding quickly to totalitarianism that the founders knew would happen over time and their trump card was Article V. Obama is just the worst of the worst but he also admittedly holds the Constitution in disdain as a “document of negative liberties” for the government and not the people for which it was written. Please tell me what part of the Bill of Rights has he not violated in his little journey to destroy what he views as an imperialistic society called the United States born from his ultra hated colonialism?

He has no respect for our founding and anything else that came along afterwards, good or bad. We also have a Congress that is totally impotent for being Representatives elected to do the people’s bidding but instead are on a constant mission to accept the bidding of crony capitalists.

So with all of that history, Mr. Historian, what is your solution, or are you just another of today’s 60% of sympathizer for the Crown? Or worse, a chicken little with a neck brace that can’t even look up to see if anything is falling out of the sky, or not. I know! Punt!