OK Taxman. You pinged me. I will weigh in.
The triumvirate here is the media, schools and, lest we forget, the unions. These were the primary targets of the soviet infiltration some 70-80 years ago - we see the fruition of the communist toxin today.
The media (Hollywood, network news and print)is being neutered by the dynamic of talk radio and the internet - the media will never quite lose its influence. The unions have lost membership steadily since circa 1960's (IIRC) - the rush to socialize medicine means 100's of 1000's of new members within the govmint. The schools are the strongest of these bastions, IMO. David Horowitz's efforts at leveling the playing field are worthy of a conservative equivalent of a Nobel prize. OTOH. students do have the internet!
The Dem leadership is overrun with radicals. The silver lining is that most of these radicals are aging - the radical movement within the Dem party has a half-life. If left alone, the bahstids will wreck America in their lust for power so that they can...make America better?!?!?!
The problem that I see is that the radicals are trying to change America while the biggest force against them, the Republicans, are simply trying to stop them - "prevent defense" - they are not trying to do anything else. The Repubs have to push back- radically push back. For instance, get on a gold standard or some facsimile, rid us of the 16th amendment, balance the budget by amendment, arm every citizen (there is a social program for you LOL), go to a national sales tax, plug up the "promote the welfare" clause, etc.
Without this, I have to re-state our "beloved" Harry Reid - The war is lost.
As you so eloquently point out, we have our work cut out for us.
I agree: We must break the power the media, the schools and the unions have over our country.
I believe that the radical agenda is at the end of its run through history. The Obozo Gang is destroying its own credibility through its stunning overreach and criminal activity. At the same time, these fools are speeding the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist agenda to the ash heap.
The good news? The American people recognize what losers these people are.
2010 will, indeed, be an Interesting Time.