[don-o]

So, even if that were true, does that mean we should just keep going down that road, or can we spend our energies treying to roll it back?

I know you are busy, but I really respect posters who will past a snip of what they are responding to. It helps in a running discussion.

The constitutional republic exists now only as a theory. We had one, but failed to keep it.

I don't see how it can be recovered. Can you?

[Chad Fairbanks]

Sure I know how to do it - but it's going to take time, energy, focus, and a lot of hard work to do it - but it CAN be done.

And, I hate to sound cold and callous, but if some innocent people have to suffer in order to preserve what little of it we have left, then that's a price we are going to have to pay... :(

[billbears]

I don't see how it can be recovered. Can you?

I think it can, eventually. But to do so you have to have an educated electorate who thinks rather than feels. And a couple of Amendments need to be thrown right out. Is it possible right now? Doubtful. But I think it's possible in the future