Pretty Americentric line of thought considering us dirty gaters have international "membership", but this also applies to the West in general.
Call it China or the Globalists -- 'and' is probably more appropriate, but there's been a deliberate decades long attack on our educational institutions, our government, our economy, the Christian religion, our borders, Communist infiltration of key positions in government and industry, etc. etc. etc.
And it's been so effective, I just don't see a reversal of course. Even if the moderate collective pulled the wool from their eyes and took action, we're still due for an economic implosion as the debt bubble eventually pops, and we'd have to deal with the indoctrinated masses who would violently resist being jacked out of the Matrix.
Personally, by this point I'm not even thinking about saving the republic, but rather what actions will need to be taken to build something better from its ruins.
Taxing income is unconstitutional, flat out. You tax things that people buy willingly because it gives choice. Taxing income is no different than serfdom. There's a reason there was no income tax until the egregious fabian socialists walked into power.
You know what, fuck it, you're right.
Sadly, it is technically constitutional, because they put it into the Constitution at the height of the Progressive Era. This needs to be reversed.