An awful lot of “We can’t Vote our way out of this”, and in fact, that’s probably very true. There isn’t any leader charismatic enough to undo all that has been done, nor even if we could find that, to override all the burocracy that he’d have to overcome.

No, no simple vote will fix this.

What CAN happen, is that we can easily vote our way further into this; or by not voting, letting others vote our way further into this.

I have now heard four generations of my elders say exactly the same thing. “I stopped voting when X did Y, because there’s no way we can undo that shit”.

The left has gotten as far as it has with incrementalism, and the incremental move to the nanny state is very nearly complete. A powerful lot of people on the left and the right would love to see that come to pass for good and all, the left because it is their dream, the right because they want to precipitate a fighting war. of course the fighting war will never happen, because the same people who want to preciptate it are anxious to let others do the shooting for them.

As many have pointed out, Romney is no better than Obama in almost every way, but there are supreme court nominations coming up, and they are important, as we will see this week.

Incrementalism works. The gun culture has brought us back from the brink of insanity by incrementalism, and the constant and unyeilding pressure has worked. We can increment our way out of this, if we can’t vote our way out, and voting is but one increment. if we want a decent candidate, if we want a decent senate and house, we will have to increment our way back to them.

not voting, not participating, is not an option. You don’t like the choices, you got to change the choices. Those of us who are gun nuts have seen it work, and it’s still moving forward. We can increment our way out of this, we just have t understand how to use the enemy’s tools against him.

Anyone who says “If we do X we become JUST LIKE THEM!” gets the ignorant award of the year.