please, please don’t feel so nihilistic, we can get back on track as a sovreign nation. Yes, We Can. (hmmmm...)
Maybe McCain/Obama/HRC would not be the final blow from which we cannot return. Or maybe we have already absorbed it--it could have been LBJ and the Nixon years. I don't know. But I've seen a lot of politics over a lot of years. The one thing that remains unchanged is that the amount of money flowing thru the US Congress's hands ALWAYS goes up, the number of people paid by the Federal Government to interfere in others lives always goes up and the size of the CFR always goes up. Even during the Reagan administration, this was true.
We are well on our way to being just another Oil Thugocracy, where various bad guys fight for control of the oil money and call it politics--perhaps we are there. But for us, the oil is the American economy, which produces 3 Trillion dollars in tax revenues every year. No person or group can stay uncorruputed by that much money and power nor could they manage it properly even if they remained so.
This is a roadmap to a totalitarian state and each increase in budget, regulators, etc makes the next increase more inevitable and easier to achieve. Frankly, I see no way off. I've been hoping for 50 years now that something would derail it. But the process hasn't even stopped for breath. Now, the barbarians are inside the city gates and they are thinking control of $3,000,000,000 a year sounds pretty good, and half of our population cannot even see the problem.
Frankly, I think we passed the tipping point either in the New Deal or the Great Society and the only question now is how bad and how fast? The pathetic 2008 contest is just a step on that path; but a telling one.
I'm too old for revolution. But I hope to live long enough be able to cheer on the next Sam Adams from the sidelines. And, I hope my son lives through it. The alternative is a slow, inevitable descent into a nasty, atheist, nanny-state globalist, totalitarianism.
So why don't I tell you how I really feel, huh? :) I wish you were right.