[arthurus]

So wave your magic wand and revive Christianity in the Republic. A Convention is something that can be done. I am not optimistic about its chances of success. I am not even sure that the Sultan would allow it to proceed. We are past the point where what is illegal or unConstitutional or untraditional is any bar to the actions of the Executive. What the Sultan thinks he can get away with is the only stricture. Republicans are telling him he can get away with just about anything he wants to do. Really it is up to the middle class forcibly changing things in a manner it is not appropriate to describe. But the middle class clings desperately to the shreds of middleclassness as it slips away and cannot bring itself to reach for the tools it has so assiduously collected.

[palmer]

A lot of the "middle class" has signed up with bread and circus. I am talking about Reagan Democrats having ditched their Christianity a decade or two ago and replaced it with the religion of Big Government. Nothing good can come out of a convention of fundamentally immoral. No political bandaid can cover up the wounds of moral decay. An immooral people cannot create a lasting moral political system.

My suggestion is to wait for the collapse and recreate civilization from the rubble. The first sign that would be possible is the total destruction of the media (cable, over-the-air, etc).