the best way to combat this is to replace existing leadership with leaders who are sympathetic to your goals and will lead the vacant minded masses to the agreed upon goal.

That's what neocons were until the Tea Party purged them.

The problem is that the Democrat leadership wants the old GOP back so they can get back to ending history. We can't tolerate either party in their present forms.

The power vacuum exists when the power is left sitting at the table. Presumably, in my utopic wish to disenfranchise fascists, we'd fix the guiderails that let us fly off into this canyon but I didn't get into that in the midst of my angry diatribe.