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Anything unsustainable won't be sustained and will reverse of its own accord. And no, I am not blaming conservatives, for anything other than being a bit foolish and aiming at the wrong things. With plenty of realistic criticisms to level, to instead shriek about tinfoil nutter stuff does us no service, it just makes us look ridiculous and out of arguments. For which there is no need - see e.g. Mark Levin's book (though he too indulges in partisan hyperbole in his title; it is the sickness of the decade).

American isn't bankrupt, it is the richest society in world history, if a bit less rich than a year or two ago. And civilization isn't going away.

I explained several years ago the right tack to take on the unsustainable policies of the left, and it isn't standing on the street corner shouting doom, doom, and betting against the US economy. The US economy has buried everything ever thrown at it with worse policy responses than this, it is a fool's bet. No, the left has no workable foreign policy and no workable sense of security. The right should remind people of that and then wait for the left's feel-good non-policies to fall apart. Notably on Iran.

But short-sighted men think they have to chase yesterday's headlines to be relevant or heard, so they pretend an ephemeral economic circumstance is permanent and all important. It isn't, it too shall pass. After which you'll be left with your partisan hyperbole and the American people won't get what the big deal is anymore. In the meantime, though, with nobody much watching, Obama will have let Iran get nukes while defunding the military etc.

Mark Levin's book has the right take.

They just need a candidate who can get elected.
Someone other than those previously touted.

Hyping any Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy memes does not seem to have any advantage for conservatives. The best defense against Obama and extremists is a good offense. His tax policies, deficits, and dissing of America and American values ought to be sufficient to make him a one-termer. But it's up to the GOP to find a good candidate. It's entirely possible they will repeat the mistakes of '08 and nominate a dud again. It is unlikeley backwoods survivalists worried about phantom UN helicopters will be to blame for that. You have to balance out the negative factors of the kookier fundamentalists and defeatist moderates very carefully. As well as the liberals in large cities who worry about them excessively.

It doesn't seem like too much criticism of Obama is a real problem in the current cycle. Is he as scary and demented as some would want to believe, with reeducation camps ready?No, probably not. But the analogy may be that out of order. They are following a reeducation campaign with statist socialist themes. He thinks in statist terms. The Orwellian/Big Brother 1984 jokes are on target.