As Mike alluded to - our overbearing religious zealotry now emanates not from any sanctified spiritual connection to the universe - it is foisted upon us as "PROGRESSIVISM" and practiced/worshipped by our godless anti-American intellectually-libtarded populace of lockstepping Orwellian groupthinkers beholden to the Democrat party of sociopathic/socialist zealots.

Goebbels could be proud and quite validated by the behavior delivered by these disconnected brainwashed masses; had Hitler such a dumbed-down populace of ignorant misfits, this ominously-rising 4th Reich would be but a continuation of Hitler's 3rd Reich victory.

Patriots will NEVER relinquish our natural-born right of self-defense, nor will we EVER stand-down as the sovereign Militia overseeing our priceless Liberty. When govt is on our side, everything is groovy. When tyranny infests our institutions, it's time for a bloodletting. We People have peacefully petitioned, and so far only gotten killed/imprisoned/ridiculed by our despotic criminal govt and its intellectually libtarded Sheeplish supporters; and now as King Barry (whoops - forgot to put the fuc in front of that) appears to be running interference for ever more violent muslim escapades which are unfolding daily, it becomes readily apparent the time is ripe to nourish The Tree Of Liberty!!

I doubt there are many Old-School Statesmanlike candidates as referred to in Burke's quote. Today, all mainstream candidates are aligned with and preened by the big-shot 2-party gang-rape system that runs "our" criminally corrupt USA politics (TEA PARTY NOTWITHSTANDING - THANK GOD). Therefor, all mainstream candidates are cast and set one way or another, and have no interest in any mere constituent's "opinion". Money and Power (and hacked voting machines) move votes, not opinion of constituency! This quote is from a very different era; what a queer concept today.

RobertSRQ says that today, fewer folks are likely to be under the MSM propaganda spell; I wholeheartedly agree, BUT - this does not address our most immediate problem - which is, HOW DO WE DEFEND AGAINST AND NEUTRALISE THE CORRUPT EFFECTS OF OUR INTELLECTUALLY-LIBTARDED SHEEPLISH BRETHREN, WHO TIRELESSLY CLAMOUR FOR EVER-MORE GOVT-RUN STATISM??? You can't cure stupid, and you cannot deprogram a liberal zealot - BUMMER.