Ron Paul can't get it done. Revolution can't be achieved from the top down. The whole point of the 1st and 2nd amendments were to provide the people with a way to take back a government gone amok (NOT for porn, art, hunting, collecting). All it took, back then, was enough people to band together, with the weapons of the time, to get it done. In these times, a grass-roots approach like this won't work either. The only realistic way that it could be accomplished is for states to become more regionally powerful and take back the power they were intended to have in the first place. Let the people who want what Californians want move to California and live under their rules. Let people with more conservative views move to Kentucky and neither to bother the other over social issues. Secession is still an option and ought to be looked at much harder than it was in the 19th century. There is more reason to consider it now, than ever.