Can't; &, they'll destroy anyone who tries.
What'd be infinitely easier (and make a lot more sense) would be for those who feel betrayed to do something totally innovative, completely unsuspected.
Take over the 'Rat party.
Sure would restore the orginal meaning of the word "Liberal," wouldn't it.
You (or anyone else) think that sounds crazy?
Well maybe it is, at that.
While it's no less crazy believing (& blindly supporting) a "conservative party" who's purporting to be advancing conservative ideals when in fact their own actions indicate they're doing anything but.
I think a (damned) good argument could be made to classify people who'd support such a position, too.
...as acute "schitzophrenics."
Now compare the above piece of wisdom, uttered by a (supposedly) average American (but we know better), to this one, written by a (supposedly) astute political pundit:
George W. Bush may be the most conservative person to serve as President since Calvin Coolidge .... George Will
Malarky.
Many (although by no means the majority) of Bush’s foreign policy decisions are those of a genuine conservative, but domestically he has cavalierly and completely abandoned his conservative base. He talks of shrinking the size of government, and yet regularly endorses increases in federal government power, and citizen reliance on Big Brother entitlement handouts.
And anyone who would point to his tax cut as an example of conservative leadership needs to think a little deeper. Such tax cuts are politically convenient, superficial façades – when they are accompanied by non-essential spending increases. Spending increases that are not accompanied by methods to pay for them are tax increases in disguise, since the new bills must be paid by borrowing (i.e., firing up the government printing presses and dispensing more fiat money). We should all be knee-jerk appreciative that our Fed chairman is always so accommodating, as Congress continues to loosen its well-worn purse strings.
The President and Congress do not seem to realize that we are broke. In debt up to our ears (and that debt is growing at a frightening half trillion dollars a year -- a faster rate than at any time in the past three decades). And Greenspan and his cadre are simply winking knowingly and handing us more blank checks .... and we continue to deposit nothing into an account to back them.
Not only are we mortgaging our (and our children's) economic future by spending ourselves into oblivion on entitlement programs (both bloated old ones, and ‘innovative’ new ones) that would have curled the focus-on-limited-government Founders’ hair, but we’re contemplating committing ourselves to all sorts of economically- and manpower-expensive interventions in international disputes and unrests. Picking and choosing which hills we intend to defend was never more essential. While the defense of some may be noble, when noble and practical don’t coincide, noble can prove to be fatal. And a dead person (or nation) of character is of no use to anyone.
The things that frighten me the most about the so-called conservatives who occupy the most powerful positions (both government and media) in this country is that they have abandoned their conservative base in three serious ways: (1) they are not seeking to eradicate the deadly welfare state mentality -- and, in many ways, are fostering and nurturing it; (2) their attempts to decrease the size and power of the federal government amount to lip service -- and, in many ways, they are covertly advocating, and accomplishing, government’s expansion; and (3) they are increasingly willing to sacrifice the concept of individual freedom on the altar of national security.
We true conservatives don’t have a home anymore. Libertarianism beckons louder each day, but it’s not where we belong. And the two most powerful factions in the country – the overt leftists, and the conservatives-in-name-only, have a stranglehold over policy and liberty. There’s little left to do but protest. We aren’t going to recruit enough into our ranks to successfully revolt. The average citizen could care less.
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Going back to watch the Tour de _____ (can’t say that awful word). Obsessively watching that grueling contest once a year not only gets my own endorphins running, but takes my mind off of the above (cycling escapism? :)