If that is the case, then the message isn't getting out to anyone other than the dittoheads -or- people who will listen to the dittoheads parrotting.
I don't listen to Rush; he doesn't fit my schedule. Same with Hannity. Besides, I find Rush to be too liberal for my tastes...
So, if talk radio is the only communications outlet, the message is DOA to those who really need to hear it.
If you figure that 20% of the people are hard-core partisans on either side of the aisle, that leaves 80% who really need to hear the message and have it presented in an easy-to-follow style.
But they gotta have power in order to reform as well.
This is true, but one does not reform by expansion hoping to shrink at a later point. That is a ridiculous and dangerous strategy with a very strong probability of failure.
At this point, likely, the only way to truly reform the system is seeming to be crashing it entirely. Depression II would likely wipe out all the social programs because with the existing debt, there would be simply no way to fund any form of massive deficit spending. Likewise, no way to fund a war to attempt to drag the economy out of it.
Now, I don't recommend crashing the economy just to prove a point, but it seems both parties are complicit in the looting of the American Taxpayer and ignoring our Constitution. It is no wonder the public is disinterested in politics and views most politicians with utter contempt.
I don't know what to do to reform the system that will work, however, so I have to play the "wait and see" game and look at every single issue and every single candidate on their merits and place support to those efforts and persons who wish to shrink Government and return to traditional Constitutional rule.
We have gone from the Rule of Law to the Rule of Men. History shows a fall is not too far in the future from that. I refuse to accept that outcome so I fight it. It may be futile, but I can tell my children that their old man gave it his best.