Michael Hoskins:
See Spengler in today’s Atimes. He hits the nail, hard, often and dead center.

It is a tribute to Richard Fernandez that a couple of years ago, rumors were all over that the man running The Belmont Club WAS the shadowy Spengler..

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Storm-Rider – Good suggestions, but keep in mind that America appears to be in complete political gridlock, with 60,000 professional lobbyists and 80,000 lawyers representing the Parties and special interest groups richly paid to block significant structural change demanded by the people.

The Constitution is Un-Amendable in the face of any organized political opposition. The last significant change in the face of opposition was in 1962, eliminating state poll taxes.

Besides Storm-Riders Constitutional changes, lets say we also desperately need a Presidential line item veto, and a Presidential succession plan if DC is nuked such that some surviving nutball like Maxine Waters or Ron Paul does not declare themselves the automatic Speaker, thus the new President…Or God help us, if, as been the case for 27 years with Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, and Ted Stevens as the President Pro Tems – the 4th in line for sucession – the oldest Senator of the majority Party, got the Presidency.

Unfortunately, I don’t see anyway the USA can fundamentally reform and return power back to The People and away from the lawyers and Ruling Elites that set up the laws in bckrooms and courts that negated The People – without going to the one higher power than law. That would be Revolution – led by the military in a time of National Emergency. Not some cluster of Left-Wing armed terrorists or Rightwing militia types..

Only force can trump law and the control over all laws now by an unaccountable Ruling Elite. Only that will enable fundamental Constitutional fixes.

It would suck, because it would signal that the Republic and it’s institutions – which worked so well so long for The People – ultimately failed. And had to be fixed by Revolutionary means – then returned. But it had to be done twice before..when England’s Glorious Revolution and Triumph of Reason…was not enough, then with the Civil War that also used force and authoritarianism to repair some initial great flaws in the Constitution and Multi-Culti dispensations that had festered for 80 years.

Jefferson suggested that sporadic Revolutions were indispensible to “nourish with blood, the tree of liberty.” He planned, and HOPED, that the American Revolution would only be remembered as the 1st American Revolution. We have had two real revolutions. And 4 quasi-Revolutions where the country became authoritarian and the threat of force was held out to intimidate. Jacksonian Democracy, counter-Reconstructionism, The New Deal, finally the Civil Rights Era.

We need another one.