Kind of long, I know, but I put some thought in this one. "We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." - Hamlet The country is polarized into two camps that represent complete opposite ends of the spectrum. One has already shown a willingness to use deadly force and the threat of deadly force to get what it wants. The other side has been holding back, abiding by the law, and hoping that their faith in "the system" would be rewarded. They just got kicked in the teeth. No matter how this all turns out, the country will have been changed irrevocably. There is no universal law that says the United States of America must continue as a nation now and forevermore. Historically speaking, 240 years or so is not a bad run for a republic, as these things go. I fear that it has gone beyond a "fixer-upper". It's looking more and more like a "tear-down" every day now. The point is, you have to accept that the old nation is done, and start thinking and planning how to begin building anew. Tibetan religious tradition has it that when the Dalai Lama dies, the Buddha of Compassion leaves his body and incarnates in the body of a young child. The monks immediately go out in search of this blessed child, and when they find him – as they inevitably do – he is tested by a group of high lamas and enthroned as the direct reincarnation of his predecessor. Imagine, however, if the lamas refused to recognize that the Dalai Lama was, in fact, dead. Suppose that instead of going in search of the Buddha’s new carnal home, they hooked the corpse up to a life support machine and waited patiently for the Holy One to awake and rise up. It’s not hard to see that they would be doomed to disappointment, and furthermore, would fail to find the next Dalai Lama as well. This is precisely our dilemma today, for America, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers, is dead. By every measure, large and small, the original vision of limited government by, for and of the people has been folded, spindled and mutilated beyond recognition. When one reads the Constitution, one simply marvels at the distinct difference between its words and our present reality. America is dead. Let us go, then, and find her.