[JasonC]

Democracy works. It has beaten every other political scheme ever devised, at fairness and at wealth creation and at liberty.

One lost election, or one president too friendly to big government (largely out of a hopelessly misplaced longing to be liked), don't change history.

Nothing will make the left's economic policies actually work in the long run, and whenever they are in office, they are judged on their results, not their jive talk. They always fail that test, and they are failing it again as we speak.

Have a little more faith in the American people. They've done a heck of a lot in 235 years...

[Erskine Childers]

I know of no instance where socialism, once established, was fundamentally reformed short of something approaching a general collapse. The USSR, Eastern Europe, Yugoslavia and so forth come to mind. Even the great Margaret Thatcher, who accomplished amazing reforms in Britain, did so only in the conditions of near collapse and then with only marginal long-term success (Britain is far more socialist than even we are to this day, as you no doubt are aware).

I have no faith that a majority of American voters will vote away their entitlements. Ain't gonna happen. Not ever, short of a major crisis.