[Dr. Sivana]

If we are serious, we must either drive the money obsessive elitists and their unprincipled minions from the GOP OR leave the GOP and form a new party. I find the latter a more attractive alternative but understand that it is not more attractive to many here who have spent their lives as I have in the GOP.

It will have to be the former. Too many states have had one hundred years to calcify the status quo, making a new second party next to impossible (though the the SCOTUS ruling on campaign finance MIGHT provide a way around that, but with its own risks.) Changing the state laws would be hard as the GOP-E is satisfied with well-fed drone status, and the Dems LOVE playing Harlem Globetrotters (only with evil incarnations of Curly and Meadowlark Lemon) versus the GOP-E's Washington Generals.

[Finny]

It will have to be the former.

It can ONLY be the former if a miracle happens.

Otherwise, get ready for a bumpy night. That is, be prepared to take bigger risks (for bigger opportunities) and remember that adapting to survive forces "solutions" that one doesn't see until one has to see them.