The continuing financial collapse will be plenty of motivation.
The problem is that the takers have the numbers and the incentive. Anyone who receives money from the 'State', SS recipients, employees, contractors, Unions, Congress Critters, etc. will be opposed to any reform, they want the gravy train to continue indefinitely.
As financial concerns get worse, the Cap the Government movement will grow. The question becomes which happens first, the complete collapse of the economic system before the government is capped or the government is capped and the collapse is headed off. The main concern is if another revolution takes over. Revolutions generally end badly.
According to Malaclypse the Younger, society passes through five repeating stages:
Anarchy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Bureaucracy
Guess where we are.
Well the French one certainly did. But the American one seemed to turn out okay....
Here's a beautiful thing a Letter from Janice in Arizona from Glenn Beck's website. Janice "says it all." And my sentiments exactly.
I'm unfamiliar with Malaclypse the Younger. Yet on this model, I'd guess we're at Monarchy, moving at the speed of light to Anarchy.
What do you think LeGrande?