> i.e. fiscally conservative libertarian hard-headed analysis of what works without the assumption that government is automatically the go-to solution. But the youth vote is never going to support or become excited about a candidate or a party it sees as insensitive or uncaring.

So enhanced life span equates into longer youth vote getting greater proportion of voting time ?
agreeing with your aims a lot, but doubting that having a reign of that for some time would not create own difficulties.
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>I fear that the Dems will become increasingly the party of bread and circuses and the GOP will flutter into irrelevance fighting a grumpy rear-guard action and seeking Divine Intervention and both parties will marginalize the practical and compassionate people who would be perfectly happy with programs that were results tested and worked and who do not have a vested interest in creating a dependent class for political purposes or a bloated government so that "experts" can run the lives of those to whom they pander while disdaining them.

So where are you ? Gracci giving the plebs more and more power ?
On road to Imperium as Bush family steered for 12 years, some people thinking being a spouse qualifies as great next candidate?
Will it take more or less than Sulla, Catilina, Caesar and Augustus ?
Or will China grow into Karthago to focus again on the outside ?
TV forcing drone war and saving US lives will further hasten the switch over - being the equivalent of foreign troops.

>Taxing the rich is not going to solve our fiscal woes, but within reason would send a signal. Results testing social programs and shrinking government would make people less skeptical about government.

Dream on... People will continue to fight esp. if no outer enemy is seen. Thinking is hard compared to that.

regards

thomas