America’s decline was not instituted from the top. All of my life, with only several instances of sanity, rank and file Americans went to the polls to vote in politicians promising the nanny state. Nobody held a gun to their heads or tricked them.
True....but the libs/progressives/leftists are masters at manipulating human nature. Promise people “something for free” (ahem....I know, I know), they’ll jump at it EVERY time.
Simple. Devastatingly effective, too. Shame on them for this; shame on America for continuing to take the bait and elect/re-elect such scum.
America’s decline most certainly was instituted from the top, and extended through the progressivist movement that infiltrated the schools many decades ago. When the left got control over the academy, which happened overtly and finally in the late 1960s, it dedicated itself 100% to diminishing and corrupting the whole idea of America.
But Americans nonetheless still overwhelmingly consider themselves conservative and do not like these statist policies. However, in practice, their resistance has been weakened and, more than anything else, they have been confused and made to feel that the socialist model is inevitable. Look at the candidates offered by the major political parties. What choice is there?
But then we have things like the Tea Parties and the grass roots conservative movements, so I don’t think you can say that America is dead yet among the ordinary people. But Obama wants to drive a stake through our heart and make sure that America is dead once and for all.
Bump for an absolutely correct statement, sir.
Don't want to hear about the tea party movement as a reversal of this trend either - not with all those handmade signs I saw at the town meetings demanding "Hands Off Medicare".