Four years after Jimmuh we got Reagan. Two years after Bill and Hill we got a congressional majority. And they never did anything like this.
And he had more political capital than any incoming president ever.
He came right out of the gate with rabid leftist proposals, the crowning jewel of them being that awful porkulus bill.
He showed the American people right away that he blatantly lied to them in his campaign. He lied more blatantly than any other candidate has ever done and he continues to lie while blinded by his own arrogance.
This has got to backfire on the Dems. It's got to.
Please do not “wait” for the country to "come to Jesus". This is a result of 40 years of MSM/DNC/Academia/Hollywood propaganda. It worked.
It is not going to happen.
I would guess there are about 20% of patriots left...maybe 30%.
This is what we have to work with.
That assumes a pendulum that swings back and forth. But that's not the reality of it. Government grew under Reagan, and government grew under the Republican legislature, and when has the federal government shrunk? There are some aspects of the current agenda that almost guarantee an entrenched collectivist power structure.
People may become unhappy with the government, but history and the experience of other countries shows us that people usually clamor for more of the government actions that caused the problem.
As years go by, people accept certain assumptions more and more, and I find even on Free Republic that many here can't comprehend the idea of government not doing certain functions. What is the response herre if someone says that government schools should be phased out? What if someone suggests that we should phase out driver's licenses? Drug prescriptions? Etc. People come to accept that next level of government regulation as normal and necessary. How did we ever get along before it was put in place?