billt,
Reality is what you accept. We can sit here and complain about what is going to be done to us or we can figure out what we need to do to prevent those things from happening. Sitting and complaining have gotten us to where we are. We need to act to stem the tide. We are not helpless sheep. I, for one, did not spend 47 years of my life defending this nation to sit back and accept the reality you present. And, I'm betting you don't want to either. Why don't we become the squeaky wheel and show our strength? The Tea party flexed its muscle once and forced people to listen, then they lost their zeal for revolution, got complacent. The American spirit cannot be that fickle. First, groups like the NRA and GOA have to unite, put aside their petty differences and fiefdoms and all of us march on Washington, clog the streets, etc. and let them government boys know we aren't just a bunch of lobbyists spreading free money. There are other coalitions to be built to expand that movement to rural America, cheap labor, oil, coal, gas, food farms, dairy farms, cattle farms that can create inroads into the Democrat monopolies. If we wait 4 years to try another election gambit, that is just what the Democrats want. They will erode this country into a dependency state from which we will not recover. Let's start something now. Let's not wait and see. Dreaming? You bet I am. To do otherwise is to die.
In a past thread, some of you asked how we convert this forum into something more meaningful. Well, let's figure out how we spread our thoughts outside this forum to start a movement. Tom, FQ, m58...put our brains to work on something "meaningful".