[certrtwngnut]

As to your comment on social security recipients.
I posed this question to 10 or 12 of us who were having our morning coffee at a local eatery.
If there was a proven plan to stabilize S/S that called for all S/S recipients to take a 5% (an arbitrary number)cut for 10 years (also arbitrary) would you agree to it? I again repeated that this would guarantee S/S for the future.
Bear in mind that none of these people would be hurt by this. Almost all of them could be considered conservative.
Not one would agree to it.
I guess that reinforces the notion that we are in deep doo-doo.

[nathanbedford]

The undeniable truth is that it is human nature to rationalize our desires, even our selfish desires. So even sexagenarians who have worked their entire adult lives and presumably accepted principles of personal responsibility, are unwilling in retirement to acknowledge that they are getting more as Social Security recipients than they gave as taxpayers.

So we, are as you say, in deep doo doo if even this class in our society is vulnerable to the siren song and will react vehemently in the polling booths to any perceived threat to their monthly payments. If these people with a reasonable history of contributing to society and self-reliance will vote their selfish interests, imagine a society populated with whole demographic sections that do not share the basic Horatio Alger myth. It is foreign to their cultural experience.

As the Democrats manage to flood America with immigrants who culturally simply do not share knowledge of and therefore commitment to the rule law, individual responsibility and capitalism, or the notion of a limited and constitutionally restricted government, America descends ever deeper into the doo doo.

The Democrat party is responsible for supplying these rationalizations as well as legislating our demographic destiny. When the rationalizations become a mountain rather than a few mole hills, it becomes impossible for the bulk of society to look the other way and pretend that we are operating a sensible political system. The Democrats must bring us to the point where Obama can enter from stage left and not just exploit the rationalizations but exploit the cynicism itself to wreck the system. At least 47% of Americans are saying, the system is corrupt and I am only interested in getting mine let the devil take the hindmost.

I believe this is what people betray who are ignorant of politics but who think they appear wise and sophisticated by saying, "all politicians are the same, they are all corrupt." At this point relativism becomes a modus vivendi and these cynics easily accept any rationalization which comes their way and succumb to the most selfish and ultimately self-destructive electoral results. In short, they vote Democrat.

So we are on a course of disintegration and there are very few stops along the line. Tuesday's election might be one of them if we win but it is a great deal to ask of one man to stand athwart the decline and fall of the American Empire and halt the decline.