What's that got to do with wishes of the government? They control the elections. The allowed to be cast will still be 95% in favor of the Government Party. Rino or Dino in the White House is still win win for the leftist coalition. All they need is another fortuitous or manufactured crisis. The only wild card is unacceptable as he's the worst kind of Socialist Corporatist Statist the other form of their two extreme versions. Right now at least for the primaries the effort is Dump Trump. All the Dinos need to do is transfer enough of their troops to the Republican Party registration long enough to pull a classic raid and that won't be hard. Screw the polls and public opinion. When the time comes....it will change the more leftist the easier to get change. the Republicans may be the lapdogs of the left but the left has the most unthinking slavish boot lickers.

Another thread developed this thought ...the country has not a two party but a bipolar system on the surface. But underneath it is a hypocritical single party system with assigned role playing in a national charade of street theater.

It certainly supports the case for paying attention to the 9th and 10 Amendments and supporting the 50 separate and different solutions methods. Especially since the national government withdrew. All that's left are some interstate trade issues with out undue interference under the full faith and credit section of the Constitution.

No you get to answer my question first. It requires basic English and personal opinion. Hardly rocket science. What you want a thesis on pork barrel politics? You stated your opinion I stated my opinion. Balls in your court. 'what makes you think...."

What makes you think an orchestrated effort no different than christmas tree pork barrel earmarking is fighting for control? It's a charade, an act with a script. Like any play or movie you watch it then return to reality OR you put on costumes and go to Star Trek conventions.

Once there was a poltical cartoon that showed a forested land with one side all clear cut and the other marked Citizens there little blurb said It will never happen here. Will it?

In the center was a recently felled log with two loggers wielding a cross cut saw one said to the other when I push you pull and when you push I'll pull ...Each had a button on their jacket one marked Democrat and the other marked republican.

what rear guard action. The events of New Year Eve was hardly a government in retreat.

The two major parties are the left and right wing of the same major philosophy Government Controls People if not a party then a working Coalition ...same thing.

how can you say all of that and believe the 'in force ready to go with registered lists draft will not be used ever...Do you know what a hollow reed is? that's the belief that A is B and it will never happen here. But it did the people gave the despots the power they didn't take it on their own. Distrust is higher than 50 years ago? You can't have it both ways.

An attempt but they wanted it legal. Only applied to the other side so only the leftists complained. The idea tagged along more support from left than right though they are loathe to admit it.Bush II went full tilt. I've often thought of Clinton, Bush, Obama as a quarter century of failure Clinton well enough said about that, Bush t be somewhat fair inherited a deficit an unbalanced budget when viewed by competent book keepers and a war. He did the rest on his own and seriously unbalanced the economic structure using the Clinton era plan of free housing for everyone skippered by Dodd and Franck, and the ethanol scam. If the debt didn't sky rocket he certainly set it upright o the launch pad. Much of his debt increase was absolutely unnecessary and turned pork politics into a combination of swine flu based on the mainstay of Clintonomics - Pork Bellies. Along comed the third eight year trimester with a POS ham'n'egger who had no math skills, no economics skills, no employment skills, no military skills, no leadership skills, no ethics skills, a complete enigma, cipher, zero ethanol powered pig trough on wheels klutzmobile who managed...so far.... to double the national debt and made proof of the aphorism never send a boy to do a mans job. They could have elected Hillary and put Klutzcake in as VP and then matched him up against the Seig Heiler champion of the neo Nazi socialist media Donald Duuuuuuuuu Trump. The promised over the horizon and tired old leftist mantra of boys home by Christmas turned into a middle ages enactment of the 14 and counting years war 2002 to 2016 at least count. With no tunnel much less light at the end of ...But my war materials investments DID skyrocket. faster than the economy tanked and the budget blundered, stumbled and growing tired Pelossified awaiting it's own re-enactment coming soon to a bank near you.