While your postulate sounds reasonable, it seems to me that it is missing a salient point. And that is simply that more and more Americans come from a paradigm that is so alien to most of us on this board that we simply don't recognize it. In order to shorten this post, I'm going to greatly simplify my hypothesis. And that is that an increasingly urban citizenry see themselves as part of an organic society. They live in a technological anthill where they have a narrow set of proscribed duties. Their food is supplied to them by "professional" food producers. Their electricity, gas (if they use it) and water is supplied by a state agency, or state approved utility. If their apartment building catches fire, they will rely on the "professionals" to put it out and rescue them if they get trapped. If something breaks, they will take it to a "professional" to get it fixed. If they think they are in danger, they will call the police, the professionals tasked with protecting them.mamabearCali wrote:tbrown wrote:mamabearCali wrote:As for the majority wanting USSA. I think that the socialists in power have told various groups convenient lies. If you are a single mom they promise x to you. If you are black they promise y to you. If you are Hispanic they promise z. None of which do they promise to keep unless it is convenient to their ultimate goals of total control. I think very few want USSA, but they do want the goodies promised them by the socialists. That is a a danger to be sure.
Individualism, to these people, is an academic concept. It is an intellectual idea that has no real connection with their existence. Something they associate in some philosophical way with the old west, but that has no place in a modern society. These folks won't arm themselves to protect themselves against evil because that is what we have the "professionals" for. These people will vote for the government that promises to take care of them. In their world view, that is what a government is for.
As our country becomes more urban, there will be more people raised with this paradigm. They are eventually going to outvote us.
I think we have a few decades before the eventual (inevitable) fall. The political pendulum has always swung from left to right, and I think we've pegged the stop on the left and are now swinging back to the right. But each cycle seems to drag the average a little more to the left. I think we have a few more cycles before we reach the fatal breaking point.