Those cult followers are the 51% of the country that do not pay income taxes and vote for more freebies. Otherwise known as the proletariat. The leftists use their (proletariat's) envy and covetousness to cement power by promising them ever more freebies....like "affordable" health insurance and "affordable" college education.
That hate has eventually got to erupt.
It seems that historically it has where the proletariat have been stirred to violence, so as to take from the bourgeois what they think is their due. I don't recall it failing anywhere it has been orchestrated by the left, do you? I'm not very confident the slide can be stopped here, it is too far along and deeply entrenched over a couple of generations now. I fear it may take a huge coordinated revolt and push back by all taxpaying individuals and businesses, but government has become too intertwined with everyday life for everyone to quit doing business with it. Besides, more than a few of those individuals and businesses fancy themselves the elite masters of the coming age of slavery.
I personally am in the unenviable position of being caught between a marriage of the ruling class and the ever expanding dependent class. How to divorce the two is the $64,000 question. Abort the ruling class is looking like a viable option.
“Those cult followers are the 51% of the country that do not pay income taxes and vote for more freebies.”
That 51% includes the overpaid govt workers. If you overpay someone by 40%, then they get taxed 40% — compared to the rest of us, they haven’t paid taxes.
Given the way the country has gone, I wouldn't think it an unworthy reform to allocate representation and votes based on the amount of income tax paid.
It was quite clear that when establishing this country, the founding fathers only wanted eligible voters who had a stake in the future of the country (landowners). Universal suffrage, in retrospect, has been a horrible idea.