Dr. Victoria Coates:... It's apathy.
That's it in a nutshell, isn't it?
Yes, apathy is the problem. The left assumes our freedom and prosperity and wants to move on to redistribution, which happens to be at odds with both freedom and prosperity.
More from the article:
“It’s apathy. And we have the most wonderful country. I mean it is extraordinary what the United States has achieved. And the more you know about the history of democracy, the more you are impressed by our country.
And the conclusion of the book is Tocqueville, and the notion that the hardest thing to do is to preserve liberty, and to do the very difficult work that is necessary to prevent lapsing into tyranny. And tyranny can come from within, and it can come from without.
And so I think what’s really beholden on the next President-whomever he or she may be-is to really summon our national will, and to remind the American people of the extraordinary achievements of the last 130 years, and what it means to preserve these for our country, for our children, and also for the planet.
So it’s not a single thing: It’s not a North Korean EMP. It’s not an ISIS attack. All of these things would be bad, but they are symptoms. And I think the greatest thing we can do, and our greatest challenge, is to preserve what we’ve achieved.