It’s trending taker, not maker.
47% and growing on on some type of gov dole. That percent will go above 50% with four more years of Obama.
Decades of open borders, out of control spending, grand bargains by both sides have created a taker society.
Not much more complicated than that. There are, of course, lots of other factors - but in the end this country has probably crossed the tipping point and is now much more like a Western European welfare state. All the things that apply to that will be seen here. We'll likely have chronically high unemployment, slow growth, a complete inability to cut anything, etc.
We may be able to save ourselves, but the Republican party is going to have to a vastly better job of, at minimum, of reaching persuadable voters in the minority community (Hispanic, Asian) and figure out a way to win over the rust belt and perhaps states like Oregon and NH in order to offset our increasing inability to win high minority states like VA and soon NC.