I’m not very hopeful either, for the reason you describe.
Still, the Assembly of States will meet this coming December. Perhaps there is a flicker of hope.
If the states do not decide to do an end run around our oppressors in DC, and soon, the grand experiment in American republicanism will be over, and the world can expect a new Dark Age.
I think with Obama’s efforts at effecting demographic replacement of our population by facilitating the invasion from the south. The days of America are indeed numbered. We don’t succeeded we will soon enough be made aliens in our own homes.