Luis wrote:
[[ Essentially, government is a machine that preys on the sentiments, wants, needs, and fears of the people to sustain themselves in power. To do it, the incite class and race, sentiments of entitlement and fear of the evils of an out-of-control government, even as they grow the government and help it spin out of control. They garner power by telling us that they will go fight for our ideals, when they have very little intention of actually doing that. ]]
I'm gonna be castigated for saying this, but I think the best chance this country could have for a fresh start -- and for a "new birth of freedom" -- would be for some foreign adversary to attack us and "drop the big one" on that city on the Potomac, obliterating it into ashes.
We'd lose the Smithsonian, the National Archives, and some famous monuments. But everything else there.....
As I said, a fresh start...
(with apologies to DC Patriot and any other GOP-B'ers in or near that place -- get out while there's still time!)