Even second and third generation Americans whose grandparents fled Castro and the USSR voted left. Not to mention 69% of the Jews who should know better by a host of measures, historic and contemporary. Liberty is not a genetically inherited trait: These mindless fools take it for granted, to be expected and paid for by someone out there (an old, rich white guy?) like their free cell phones.
In the past, it was a war which often corrected what we sometimes take for granted, but in today's world, the purgative aspects of war may be a long time coming.