Robert Ringer is the best-selling author of "Looking out for No. 1," and "Restoring the American Dream," both libertarian classics that espoused individualist values. He was also a regular on the Libertarian Party convention circuit throughout the late 1970s and '80s.

Today he is a syndicated columnist and writes for World Net Daily. His regular column: "A Voice of Sanity."

In his Christmas Day column Ringer asks, "Can America be Saved?" Excerpt from WND:

America will go through a fundamental change in 2010 – guaranteed. Either it will be fundamentally transformed into a full-fledged socialist police state, then, ultimately, a communist police state, or those who still believe in freedom will do whatever it takes to overthrow the oligarchy that now rules over us

But, as I have so often pointed out, the caveat is that the fascist president and Congress may very well find a Chavezian reason to declare a state of emergency and "postpone" the 2012 presidential election. Regardless of whether that emergency is a total collapse of the U.S. economy or a terrorist attack, don't be fooled. If it happens, it will be a planned event by those who are now in power.

Via health care, cap and trade and other wildly unconstitutional measures, BHO and the criminal Congress will assure that the economy is many times worse off by next November's elections than it is now. The objective, of course, is to bring people to their knees so they will have "no other choice" but to look to benevolent government for help.

Ringer goes on to warn that the only way that America can be saved from Obama's "fundamental transformation," is if "Conservative Republicans sweep into power [in 2010]."