I hate to say it, but I think Franklin is going to end up being right about this system of government not working.
He said it would only govern a moral people, which we were, but we aren’t any more.
We need to go to a parliamentary system with a coalition government. At least you could vote your conscious and it would mean something.
Right now, the GOP is the only place you can go if you’re a libertarian. That’s Paul’s shtick.
Can you imagine what Franklin would be thinking today, if he could envision an “immoral” people then?
That's right. Blame our fellow citizens (along with the illegals who cast their fraudulent votes). The "GOP-e" is just a symptom of the real problem, which is that the majority of voters (republicans as well as democrats) support big government and de facto socialism. Both parties pander to voter greed. Of the two, the Democrat party is the more extreme. Sink the GOP ship, and we're left with an unrestrained Marxist dictatorship without counterbalance. Conservatives can either salvage and repair the leaky ship or abandon it to the enemy.