All it takes is electing the proper people to stop the insanity.
Well, yeah, but there's a nickel's worth of problem with that proposal.
Here comes the first two and a half cents' worth: the percentage of people living in the United States who positively care about America has been on the way down a long, long time. I don't mean to say the America haters are now in the majority; I do, however, mean to say their numbers have been increasing, and the number of people who are indifferent to America have been increasing at an astronomical rate. How long did the expressions of patriotism following the attacks of September 22, 2001 last? If the mere
expression doesn't last long, that ought to tell you something significant about patriotism itself.
Here's the other two and a half cents' worth: the people who deeply, sincerely, truly belive America needs to be transformed into a socialist workers' and peasants' heaven on earth have spent the last century and some while worming their way into education, the purported "news" media, civil service and regulation at the federal, state, and local levels, all the soft purported "sciences," and vote counting. They're in the process of assuming command of medicine throughout the United States. They're a minority, but they've positioned themselves at the switches.
I laughed at South American banana republics as a junior in a high school world history class. "How could people be that
dumb?" I wondered, and "Couldn't they
see they were being cheated?"