Let's Deal In Essentials

"Look, it’ll be hard enough for my generation to reduce the size and scope of the federal government, reform the tax code, and reform social security, and to do so in such a manner as to affect a cultural change as deep as the one FDR and Truman accomplished in their era. Asking for all the rest of it too, is just asking for too much. We’ve built up our current political culture over the course of a whole century. Changing it--if it can even be changed--will probably take just as long."

That's Dale Franks.

"Argue for your limitations, and you can have them."

Beyond that, I'm just going to point out that the political (legal) underpinnings of racial segregation represented what can fairly be called a conservative tradition since the beginning of the Republic, and a carefully, consciously, conducted campaign of civil disobedience had the whole thing headed for the ditch in much less than a decade.

There is absolutely no reason on earth why people should resign themselves to living under this gargantuan leeching monster of a government for the rest of their only-ever lives.

Franks is entirely correct about the Libertarian Party, although for reasons that he doesn't touch. They have to do with conceptual integrity to principles and a "utopian" regard for "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

Mark my words: No nation in world history has ever voted its way out of straits like these, and this one won't, either.