Francis Poretto has a genius for distilling my fears and worries down to their essence:

The great challenge for freedom-loving Americans in our time is as it was: to find a countermeasure to the special-interest dynamic that has destroyed limited Constitutional government and put every self-supporting, self-respecting one of us at the mercy of the activists. Your Curmudgeon has no ideas he hasn’t had for a decade. The activists have grown exponentially more rapacious as time has passed, and the trend shows no sign of decelerating. We need a breakthrough, and we need it pretty damned quick.

Pray.

Yeah, what he said.