Maggie's Farm

Here is my problem with the GOP candidates. Most or all of them would not do those things we must do to prevent or mitigate our economic and social collapse. Romney for example, would be a Obama light. He probably would not actively try to repeal Obama care and would probably continue to bail out failing banks/industries and borrow and print money. He would probably not touch the union problem with a 10 foot pole. He would not do anything to secure our borders or rid this country of the illegal aliens that are draining our coffers and destroying our health care system. What he and the rest of the candidates would do from day one is begin running for re-election. The result of a Romney or Gingrich would be more of the same, perhaps at a modestly slower speed but still downhill towards the destruction of our constitutional republic.
If, on the other hand, Obama is re-elected he will continue to loot the treasury, borrow us into irreversible bankruptcy, destroy our military and put the nail in the coffin of our constitutional government. This "might" wake up the vast majority of Americans who have tuned out politics and never learned anything in high school history or civics classes and "maybe" create a revolution that would bring us back to the original intent of the framers of the constitution. Much like with a crack addict attempts at intervention are always unsuccessful until they hit rock bottom. Think about it; a solid 43% or so of Americans when polled, like Obama and want four more years! How could that be? Simple, they are Democrats/liberals and believe they will get some of the "Obama dollars" and want the party to roll on "Laissez les bons temps rouler". These are the crack heads (and arguably the 20% or so who call themselves independents) who must hit rock bottom before they will wake up. Sadly we are all on the same roller coaster and will all take the same ride.
But the choice as I see it is either a generation or two or three generations of slow/fast decline with no hope of a turn around anytime soon until we go the way of the Romans: Or a national version of tough love where the left/liberal philosophy is tried and fails dramatically followed by a French style revolution where politicians are jailed/guillotined until they are all gone and we start again with the original intent of our constitution.
I am aware of the risks but I argue that any belief that the status quo is not riskier proves that we are in denial.
Let me give you a simple and succinct proof of the senseless and incomprehensible risk we face with the status quo: Our congress is about to vote to give BILLION$ to unemployment payments. Certainly everyone reading this knows someone or has a brother-in-law etc. who is unemployed, has been for a year or two and has no intent of working as long as the government continues to send him checks. At the same time the same congress is going to cut national defense. I'm not just saying to stop spending on wars in foreign countries (which makes sense) but to cut the muscle and bone of our defense to do what??? To pay people to not work in unemployment, food stamps, section 8, welfare, Medicaid, etc., etc. There is no end of the trillions they will spend to buy votes but they will cut national defense!!! Do you still believe the status quo is a good idea?