How is envisioning a better long term plan for a better future for our citizens, looking at what the Heritage Foundation/liberals, neolibs, cons and neocons have done, moves and counter moves, learning from the successes and failures from each side, developing a long term plan for the direction we envision, then finding and running candidates, learning from successes and failures, and adjusting our plans accordingly a set-up for fascism? This is exactly what founders, despite their shortcomings did when when they drafted the Declaration of Independence, planned and executed a revolution, which was replete with risks and sacrifices, then developed a new socioeconomic model (liberalism, in the global sense of the term), drafted a Constitution, ratified it? They envisioned a system far into the future and potential risks and a rough map of sidestepping those risks, which is why, when questioned by a citizen on the type of government we’d been given, Franklin answered, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

We are on the verge of losing it because the most liberal of liberals have been playing checkers, and the most greedy and ruthless have been playing chess. We get too caught up in immediate battles and lose sight of the bigger picture. Too many concessions have been made. I don’t know if we can save our republic; but I think we can save our country, and we need to think about these issues and develop that plan and move forward playing chess, before it’s too late.