Everything is incremental. There should be a "yet" in that sentence. Maybe they will be when posting to Free Republic becomes a traitorous offense to the nest Democratic administartion. Remember MM, any power you grant to Republican administrations eventually will end up in Democratic hands.
Anytime it boils down to Republicans and Democrats, what you're essentially talking about the the "good cop-bad cop" game being played on a national scale. All that either really wants to do is bust your ***. Only real difference is the methodology.
This will not change without a viable external threat to their power base, i.e., a third party. It might not change at all. Y'all just might have to get used to that boot on your face, forever.
Do you really believe the repubs are different from the dems? They just do it slower and on a "piece meal" basis.
Pres Bush put 48,000 more employess on the fed payroll to feed from the public trough for life. Isn't that what the dems wanted?
He signed the government "education" bill which contains most of what the dems wanted and he admitted he did not read the bill. He signed the p.a.t.r.i.o.t. law which will come back to bite us vis a vis; section 802 which is not sunsetted. Most astoundingly, not one senator or congress member read the law because it was not even printed at the time of the vote.
Don't be diverted by the "war" and watch what they are doing on the home front. Dictactors are made by people who follow blindly and when the dictator(s) are exposed as dictators, then those who follow blindly make excuses for them.