Eggplant,

What you describe is certainly one possible, perhaps even likely, outcome.

However, there is another possibility. It is possible that the sovereign citizens of our nations (after all, the citizen is still sovereign) will band together and change the Constitution in such a way as to circumscribe the Federal Government.

I have suggested, in earlier posts, that this is a Constitutional process, and therefore full-scale revolution is not necessary for dramatic change. What is needed is for a critical mass of citizens to decide that they will lobby their state legislatures to call a Constitution Convention under Article V of the US Constitution. The states, by controlling the process, can force the Federal Government to shrink both is scale and its scope.

The time when this much be done is quickly approaching, IMHO. If the Federal Government reaches the “tipping point,” the only mechanisms for reform will be revolution and secession.

If Obama wins (not a foregone conclusion, mind you), the concentration of power in Democrat hands may be the catalyst for serious, structural change.

The problem with effecting such a change has always been that the average person – Joe the Plumber – had no real interest in making it happen. But that may change with Democrat domination of the Federal Government.

Time will tell. But regardless, as true conservatives, we should only undertake such actions when there are no other options that are feasible. Which, it is sad to say, may be true sooner than any of us thought.

Or hoped.

L3