All good.
Pat nails it.
Pat makes some serious sense in light of events in the last 23 years.
Is that actually true?
As I recall the story, the Nazis got roughly 33% of the Reichstag, then Paul Hindenberg appointed Hitler Chancellor, then they completed their takeover of the government through trickery and thuggery.
I wonder if we are becoming such men.
A good beginning might be a FR thread from the Year 2004 and the links provided therein.
Because our schools have not taught the ideas of liberty versus competing ideas of tyranny, understood at America's founding, but censored from the nation's textbooks for decades now, we are adrift and in danger of losing the battle of ideas.
America's Founders understood the competing visions and what John Quincy Adams identified as the various "laws of nations" and how the Declaration of Independence's philosophy and the American Constitution fitted into such a world.
A reading of his complete "Jubilee" Address, delivered in 1839 by invitation of the New York Historical Society, would be a beginning, as well as his writings referred to in the thread cited above. Both are linked in that thread.
Not so, Pat -- liberals' was the rude awakening. For Obama, it was the flowering of his life's purpose and the fulfilment of his father's sordid, evil dream.
For us conservatives, it's been a sad denouement and one "we told you so" moment after another.