I disagree. You could have said America was gone a year into the Civil War, but the North kept fighting (right or wrong) and America eventually recovered. You could have said France was gone in 1942, but the Resistance kept fighting, and France was eventually restored. America today is in far worse shape than either of those two situations, but it's still recoverable. I'm a former Scout, "be prepared", so I'm ready if too many of us choose not to work for freedom. However, I am not willing to give up.
There is still a slim chance that we can peacefully restore freedom in November of 2016, despite the inevitable and massive Democrat vote fraud. There is a bigger chance that we can restore freedom through means other than a free and at least somewhat fair election. I'm on the side of one or the other, not just giving up.
Interesting analogy. In my view the rise of today’s federal behemoth can be traced directly back to the first three days of July, 1863. Gettysburg was the price the Southern cause paid for having R. E. Lee, and it destroyed them, and America has never been the same since. The French recovered after Big One, but only as a newly constituted republic, their fifth (1958). They’ve never been the same since either.
America will not be the same after the Kenyan leaves, but I agree we can recover, at least some, if not most of what we were.
One thing is absolutely certain, Jeb must NEVER be the nominee. His family has had a stranglehold over the Republican nomination process since 1988, and it MUST be broken. The key is the nomination process itself. The Bush family is perfectly willing to allow a democrat take the WH, but not any other Republican. They will not allow the border to be closed under any circumstances whatever, and of course it must be closed. The only hope is that another republican takes the nomination process away from them, and for this I think Trump is the only hope. It has to be someone with massive money, because that’s how they control the process every time. I believe they are panic stricken right now, and don’t know the next move to make. Keeping them off balance is the first step. I would support Trump, even if it turns out he’s a Russian spy. The Bush cartel must be stopped, or there is no hope left.
I, on the other hand, am a weak sister who's terrified of everything; who has no resolve, no strength; who's idea of confrontation is to hide under sheets, trembling in abject fear. Routinely, I collapse to the floor, paralyzed by unknowable fear, in the fetal position, trembling, naked, sweating, and completely consumed by raw anxiety and a baseless terror of the unknown. Covering my eyes against a threat that is not there, my mouth agape in a silent scream, I stay under the table in that fetal position for hours, shaking, pale and whimpering, often lying in a puddle of my own sick.