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I’m trying to come up with a list of tests. One would be, “Are Rush, Sean, Laura, Michael, Mark and the rest still free to rant their spleens on national radio shows?” As long as they are, I’d say we’re still mostly free. If teh left finds a way to silence them, I’d make a big check mark in the box. And I’m still free to write and sell “radical anti- government” novels.

I'm not sure that is a legitimate test. It shows a reliance on deterministic thinking (which is historically justifiable) while our opponents show they are very comfortable operating within a stochastic framework.

There's a reason articulate radio voices get largely ignored, while the mostly amorphous Tea Party activity is treated like an insurrection.

Modern politics, for all practical purposes, is a specialized branch of "marketing and advertising" when understood as a social science.

Coke and Pepsi have no desire, indeed they have very good reason NOT to desire, the elimination of their statistically insignificant competitors. As long as such "competitors" exist, certain hands will be stayed that would otherwise be working against these quasi-monopolies.

If we want to save our way of life, we need to start punishing "intent and dissent" as well as "action." That's how our opponents have been so successful.