Wildman,
I agree totally with your first paragraph. However, I do not believe that we will ever reinstate any of our rights and freedoms through the political process:
1)Since the advent of television we have, as a nation, become the best informed bunch of ignoramouses the world has ever seen. The boob tube has only to tell us it is so, and thus it is.
2)with relation to #1, above, the media is overwhelmingly liberal and I see no change in this trend in the foreseeable future.
3)It is the liberals in this country that continue to force the rest of us to accept an overabundance of immigrants. They let them in, give them our money, and say vote for me if you want more of the same.
4)Liberals and the media continue to convince people that they will be safer if we take away just one or two more of your rights and freedoms. They don't have to prove it (#1), just convince people they will be safer and they willingly agree to gun-laws, curfews, video-cams, DNA testing, etc,etc,etc.
5)Liberals buy peoples votes. I, and many others, work very hard with the end result that the government takes more than half of what I make. They are, in fact, stealing my money and giving to a bunch of losers who, for the most part, deserve whatever contempt society gives them. Who do you think these people are going to vote for? If they discontinued all entitilement programs through a constitutional amendment it would be the end of the democratic party.
6)State and federal capitals have an overwhelmingly large proportion of liberals and other freaks giving our government officials a disparate view of their constituencies. Government bureaucrats are largely taken from these pools as well.
7)Freedom of speech no longer exists. If you make a non-PC comment at work you can be fired with little or no recourse. This is in opposition to individuals who are totalyy incompetent or lazy. Try to get rid of them, sometime. People in my state who have made themselves standard bearers for conservative organizations have been imprisoned on trumpted up charges and have their lives destroyed. The large number of laws on the books allow the government to target whomever they want.
I believe that if we are ever going to a return to a free society it will come from either force or the inmplied threat thereof.