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Re your reply. There is a talk show host in Boston, Jay Severin, who uses the word "masturbatory" to characterize such ideas where there is no realistic thought going on. Ideas are great but you know what is said about ideas and a**holes, everybody's got one and they usually stink.

It is not an idea that will change the political landscape but a movement following a strong individual with ideas that can attract more followers leading to a victorious election. The set of ideas alone will never win without a mechanism and leadership, if you will, to see it through to fruition. I suspect, you like I have had many ideas in our lives but they have passed us by because we were not of mind or means to see them through.

There could be a great party of a thousand folk with great intentions but without any influence until they can attract several thousand times as many believers. Ideas don't lead people, people do.

"Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement in history has been led by one or just a few individuals with a small minority of energetic supporters." – Leonard E. Read

"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a more just master." – Sallust

"When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence." – Gary Lloyd

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." – Stanislaw J. Lec

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." – Justice George Sutherland (1938)

"I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue." – Daniel Webster

"Given man's nature, freedom will always be in jeopardy, and the only question that need concern each of us is if and how well we took our stand in its defense during the short period of time when we were potentially a part of the struggle." – Benjamin Rogge

"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot." – Mark Twain

We disagree. I never thought hard core party people would change parties. If you want to see what stinks, look at the direction of your party and you will know.

As to realistic thought,,,,,,if you think your party is taking you where the country should go, you are the one touching himself. Unless you want the continued slide of course.