I agree with Liberty Valance about your sobering look at politics in America---
Boy have I been unrealistically idealistic in the past---this past few years and analysis' like yours make it so hard to want to keep going ....
I appreciate the post, but alas, it isn't very optomistic right now....
You know, liberals were consistently doing demonstrations for years, and they have abortion rights, tax and spend policies, the nanny state, separation of church and state.....things that most voters don't want, yet politicians backed it, passed it.
Special interest is, by definition, the minority, or they wouldn't be "special." And special interest groups get plenty of what they're asking for. Money and noise win political support. That doesn't necessarily mean more votes. All special interest needs now is a judge.
It's always been easier to sit on your a$$ and complain than to get out there and hold a sign, or deliver a letter.
right now there are 3 groups, center, right and left.
What you need to do is to win the center and right and freeze out the left and we have done that.
If you think you are upset the US is not more conservative, just imagine being a lefty. Most of them are nearly suicidal.