In a similar way leftist totalitarians recruit young rebelious minds in the universities. There is a massive highjacking of all "noble " causes by the "progressive" enemies of the people. They find attractively looking baits for everyone, but joining any of the highjacked by the totalitarian "progressives" so called "noble causes" will inevitably bring them to the voting booth of the infiltrated by the totalitarians Democrats gang, of the enemies of America. Same slippery slope to the national suicide in the end of the road, even though it sounds paradoxically. One wants to be a vegetarian? Sounds funny, but majority of them will end up voting for the "progressive" enemies of the people. Want to save bunnies and kitties, so the new medicines will be tested on you and your children instead of animals? Then you help the Democ-rats to kill the Constitution and economy instead. Decided to join the special interest groups that give unfair advantages to minorities (which falsely called themselves "human right activists")? The you help ruining free market and "you get what you earned" fairness, slaying the goose of the Free Market that lays golden eggs, and as a result the whole country gets poorer. Only Free Market, slowly but surely, can balance out tendencies and optimize the outcome.
Totalitarians apparently are unable to comprehend that "simpletons, sheep, morons" Americans make better decisions regarding their own affairs than arrogant "progressive" elite despite their higher education and seemingly sharp wits. "Progressives" are in denial of the fact that each one of 300 million Americans knows about his/her affairs more than anyone in the world, that thay have direct incentives and potentially both negative and positive feedback loop, so they have the highest chance to make a right decision than any bureaucrat in Washington, DC or in the state capital. Besides, if one American screws up– he/she screws up only him/herself, while when Screwer-up-in-Chief inevitably screws up– he screws up the whole world. Whatever government does– it does it wrong, From scientific point of view it is impossible for a government to make a right move because government has no or weak feedback loop, thus, whatever it does– it distorts and hinders the only possible mechanism of optimization of the complex systems in the dynamic stability state– self-regulation with the tight feedback loop. The situation is even worse when the government is infiltrated by "progressive" totalitarians because they are blinded by their ideology; they see distorted by the lense of political correctness picture of the world; they view reality via partisan prysm and then they try to analyze already distorted "reality" picture using false psychological stereotypes in their brain. Reality never conforms to their distorted vision of the world, so they just ignore or hide reality and they attack anyone who dares to show them the truth.
The ban of Shariah law around the world (not of Islam, but of antihumane Shariah laws), on other hand, might make the Muslims reform Islam, removing the anti-humane Shariah laws from Quran and making Islam an ordinary religion just like any other that possibly WILL BE compatible with the humanity. So far Islam that includes the hateful Shariah laws IS NOT a true religion and Islam IS NOT compatible with any civilization, with any other law system. Today's Islam is an engine of jihad (which is the war of Islam against humanity that started 1,400 years ago by first islamic terrorist named Muhammed and never ended).
The problem with all the "reforms" of the government– they don't work, it’s just against the laws of nature to make them work even theoretically– you cannot "reform" your enemy to be "a user friendly"; you cannot use the coercive force of the government to combat coercive force of the same government; the squid of government after any partial reforms quickly regenerates and keeps destoying the country with the accelerating speed. The only possible solution is to basically abolish 99% of the government AT ONCE and FOR GOOD, using Constitutional Amendmends – otherwise the vocal minority of the population that in a short term does benefit from a particular government-run program will object any meaningful reforms. However, when ALL the government programs eliminated for the long term benefits of ALL Americans, then the sweeping changes and the resurrection of the Constitution of the limited government can be possible. It's like easier to return back 10 un-earned dollars if instead you are getting back -or, better to say, the government never takes away in taxes your 1,000 of dollars, earned by you.
What's the ideal structure of power? The one with the POWER TO THE PEOPLE! What's today's one? The with POWER TO THE PEOPLE'S ENEMY– to the government. You see, how much power the feds already have usurped?
Solutions?
1) Balanced budget Amendment. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Minimize the powers, thus, minimize the corrpution. Reinstate the original Constitution, confirm the only powers they we, the people, give to each level of the government, and it should be about 1% of today's budget and powers. Put a ceiling on the budget in % of the last year GDP, and not more than 13%. Explicitly prohibit collective bargaining if the paxpayors money (public funds) are involved at any level of the government because socialist labor unions push America into the bancruptcy abyss even fasters than feds– federal debts right now about 14 trillion dollars while total unfunded liabilities to socialist labor unions are 130 tillion dollars. Deficits? Un-funded liabilities? Let the government pay its debts, don't let it pay from your pocket. How? Let them sell their assets– lands, buildings and so forth.
2) Two Term Amendment– for all the elected and un-elected government officials of all levels (not just feds) not more than presidential 8 years. No more professional politicians, no more entranched enemies of the people in the governments. The same comes for 100% of the laws with no grandfathered exceptions. Only the Constitution is forever, all the laws expire automatically in 8 years unless their merits and unintended consequences discussed on the case by case base. Explicit prohibition of law package extensions. Let our enemies bureucrats fight for each law individually. Today they steal our freedom, pass the law and it's their's forever. They keep encroaching our rights and freedoms since 1913. Do you know how many new laws and mandates the bureaucrats imposed on us just on one day of Jan 01, 2010? Over 40,000, Unbelievable! So, let them go through the same laws all over again and again– it will keep our enemies busy.