"Every election cycle....."

"Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us "change," and 2008 has been no different.  But in the American political lexicon, "change" always means more of the same:  more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power. 

Real change would mean something like the opposite of those things.  It might even involve following our Constitution.  And that's the one  option Americans are never permitted to hear. 

Today we are living in a fantasy world.  Our entitlement programs are insolvent:  in a couple of decades they will face a shortfall amounting to tens of trillions of dollars.  Meanwhile, the housing bubble is bursting and our dollar is collapsing.  We are borrowing billions from China every day in order to prop up a bloated overseas presence that weakens our national defense and stirs up hostility against us.  And all our political class can come up with is more of the same."  -Page ix of The Revolution, A Manifesto