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I’m starting to warm to your way of thinking.

At worst, even if saving and “galting” (or as you put it, “starving the beast”) don’t bring Barry down, it seems like the honorable thing to do anyway.

It’s very clear that the Dems economic strategery is doomed to fail. Even if they had good intentions it probably wouldn’t work — and they so transparently do NOT have good intentions.

I don’t have overwhelming confidence in the success of your strategy either, to be frank, but just might work and there’s not much to lose in trying. The only other *effective* alternative I see (not that I’m advocating it!) is bloodshed and that would be a major bummer. A third party strategy is doomed to fail IMO, and the (R) party is far too firmly dug into the big government pork barrel at every political level.

So what the heck.

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I'm constantly reminding people to avoid fighting the current battle using the tools & technique of prior conflicts. Not only is advocating violence/secession illegal, but it is impractical and will NOT get the job done. It will not achieve our objective, which is to restore a representative republic. My RAD blueprint:

Repeal the 17th
Amend the Constitution to add Rep term limits
Disband the FED & IRS

We have a perfectly legal, moral and valid means of bringing forth political change. We must work together to bring forth the financial collapse of the welfare state, and its ability to direct and control citizens' lives. It will not be without cost, however - there will be hardship. But, consider for a moment what prior generations have faced; I do not believe our challenges will be equal:

...all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it ... and the war came...

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."