Our government is a system of legalized bribery and extortion, and if we don’t change it, like an appendix gone bad, it is going to kill us. I was a Democrat all my life but I have changed, now I am neither Democrat or Republican. I still believe in the same things, but circumstances have changed and we have to adjust. We must leave ideology and party behind and practice pragmatic realism in its place. We are in a post ideological world, all the ism’s of the past are dead, Communism, neoliberalism, political correctness, all the ideologies have failed. If we do not change and adapt we will fail as well. Our government elites have failed. No one says western civilization has to succeed or even survive.