What's coming is coming, regardless of whether Romney wins or Obama wins. Only the speed and acceleration will vary. The lineaments of the future conflict were set decades ago, and they are about to play out. Romney-Ryan will be the last showing of the traditional flag, but that flag is not the same flag, in terms of values, as half a century ago, much less two centuries ago. I continue to say that culture and demographics set the future and have already pre-determined the shape of the struggle ahead, regardless of the people in political power. I don't believe, personally, that we can fix what's wrong, we can only prepare for divorce and try to mitigate the pain that will come with that.
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I note that the moderators of the "debates" have been set. Schiefer and Lehrer, whom most of us thought died years ago, are back, along with two newer representatives of the progressive media establishment. Here, in microcosm, is the real problem: this is a democratic Republic, but one in which the people in power are scared to death of real questions, uncensored, being asked by We the People. So it goes.