re: If the dems win the Senate, this country is fricked.

Given the inevitable effects of ILLEGAL Immigration, rr...it is inevitable that the Dems will win the Senate, POTUS and House as well, in the near future.

This is even assuming that the Wall is built and a lot of violent, gang banger types go back over that Wall. The good folk won't...and it is even unlikely that their abundant Government Subsidies will go away. They'll get the vote...sooner or later. Their kids will for sure.

If there is a Constitutional Republic for of governance to be maintained in this Nation...it will be an UN-DEMOCRATIC version; because a Democratic (pure version, majority rule) will nullify traditional Constitutional Principles. Democracy -as such - will then either be rejected...or accepted. What such a future 'Government' will look like, how or whether it holds power or for how long, I have no idea. It will be Authoritarian...by one Side or the Other.

Of course, there is a chance that Government Subsidization is both accepted (being that major job losses from High Tech is coming), and somehow reconciled with Constitutional Principle ("promote the common welfare"?) Time will tell. Pretty soon.