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that sound you hear is the sound of a cultural paranoia by people who have lost their grip on the reins of power, and on reality, and who fear the worst is coming.

I do fear the worst is coming.

You know, the way people who disagree are able to coexist and share power is that they have a contract with one another. You may not like everything I'm going to do when I'm in power, but there is a limit to what I am able and willing to do because I have committed myself to that contract.

And though I don't trust you, and I'm not going to like what you do when you have power, I can live with it for the same reason, there is a limit to what you will do with your power because you have committed to that same contract.

But once that contract is broken, I can no longer trust you to have power over me.

We have a one-way ratchet, because our opponents are not bound by the constitution and will do what they will. We still are bound by it, which makes it impossible to reverse the damage they do even when we do manage a return to power.

If we are not all committed to constitutional rule of law, we don't have a constitution and we are no longer in a state of law. By definition, if you are not in a state of law, you are in a revolution whether it is declared or not, whether it is violent or not. The revolutionaries are in power and we are looking for a non-violent way to remove them. Its not going to be easy when they control the media meaning they control the conversation, and they control the schools meaning they get unfettered access to your own kids.

They seized the key strategic ground early, and now getting ahead of the curve is increasingly tenuous. Every day we wait to take back the strategic ground it becomes that much more unlikely we ever will. We have work to do.