>>This is exactly the kind of mentality that I loathe.
That doesn’t make what he is saying less real. It just means that you will “shocked, shocked I say!” when it happens.
>>I refuse to even think the left will EVER prevail.
The Left can promise weak-minded people all sorts of things. It also controls the media and education system to insure that the supply of weak-minded people is steadily growing.
>>Honestly I believe the country is more likely to split up than it is to become a dictatorship.
It could split up. That is our best possible outcome. But when it does split up, WE are going to have make hard choices in who we let in to OUR part or else the process will begin all over again. That means our kids and grandkids who believe that our kind are primitive in our thinking. It means people whose demographics makes them susceptible to Leftist propaganda and people whose choice of faith group is not compatible with cold, hard freedom and the responsibility it requires of each of us.
>>Americans aren’t as easy to control as bureaucrats would like to think.
Remember that “Americans” at this point covers a VERY broad range of people. Some are controlled by ideas and peer groups. Some are controlled by the past. Some are easy to control with free stuff. Some are controlled by threatening their wealth. Some by threatening their livelihood or their comfort. Until we are willing to discard all desire for wealth or comfort and are willing to die while killing the Progressives, modern Americans of all sorts are VERY easy to control.
Christian convictions got many founding fathers to embrace austerity and trials.
If America gets too mushy to do that, it’s not going to see a revival.