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I'm with you - I'd love to see a major housecleaning in our government and a move to roll back its size and scope. I'd love to see our government resume the role it was originally intended to serve. But I don't see how it can happen. The frog has been stewing for a very long time, and the distance he has to hop to escape the stew pot is much greater than it was. We are not united in purpose, we are weakened by generations of overindulgence, lowered expectations, moral degeneracy and a poisoned and thoroughly politicized education system. We are addicted to all the "benefits" big government provides - as we were intended to be by that very government.

To use a movie analogy from the Matrix films, most of us would gladly choose the blue pill and simply remain connected to the Matrix as if nothing were wrong. Only a few would be brave enough to choose the red pill and thus see the Matrix for what it really is and escape their enslavement.

Would that few be enough? And even if they were, to what would we return? On the whole, we as a people are shockingly ignorant of our own history, and the kind of government the founding fathers intended and tried to engineer hasn't existed since approximately 1862. There is no living memory of how it worked, and hasn't been for generations. Plus, that government was not without some serious problems of its own - which is in part what led to its being changed in the first place.

Perhaps you think I'm exaggerating, but I don't think I am. Our government has created a system - slowly, over many generations - which is self perpetuating. The bureaucracy has been designed to keep itself going no matter what party is in power at the moment. And congress has made itself virtually invincible - it is very difficult (and expensive) to defeat an incumbent, and so members of congress tend to be members for life. And the people have - for generations - had a "can't fight city hall" mentality.

Sure, we still have elections, and they do have an effect. But that effect is limited by the fact that we really only have two parties, and those two parties are not as far apart as their partisans like to think. Realistically, the only difference between them is size and scope. Essentially both are prostitutes, but one is more expensive than the other.

Sure, there are "third" parties. There are quite a few of them actually. But not one of them - or even all of them together - have the power to effect any real, meaningful, lasting change.

The saddest part of all this is that the government - especially our current government - views people who even talk about such changes as terrorists. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if this very post was flagged on some government database as being potentially subversive. If a new Ronald Reagan (let alone a Thomas Jefferson) were to arise today, he would be equated with Timothy McVeigh and locked up for our "protection".

Well, that's enough of my soap box philosophy for one morning. Think I'll take my blue pill and have some coffee and maybe smoke some hope and change. Yeah, that's the ticket.

It is now time to touch the Monolith...