Plus your talking about divide and conquer? What do you think the GOPe is doing to the Tea Party? Sowell is a good man but completely wrong in this instance.
Slow walking is all we can do. It started with the imposition of a federal income tax a century ago. Reagan's term was a long slow walk to ruin. He abolished no cabinet departments and tacked on amnesty. Clinton increased the speed. Bush II increased it a little further. Obama installed a moving sidewalk. At this rate, we will begin teleporting ourselves to ruin instantaneously.