Leftist elites who are candid with themselves know that their policies have negative consequences on the economy, but their object is power for its own sake. They think they know better and their unworkable ideas will work if enough people believe in them. Those who do not are marginalized if not eliminated, because their mere contrary thoughts are a threat.
They therefore have good reason to hope that a few generations of public school dumbing-down/indoctrination combined with media bias and propaganda will have acclimated the population to accept their benign tyranny — and to consider freedom to be something that only favors “the rich.” So the false security of dependency is more than seductive for a significant proportion of Americans.
The problem then, isn’t just the Left; it’s the body of the American people, whose fundamental values continue to erode. An increasing number of us have been corrupted to the point wherein we are not only unaware, but unable — and perhaps even unwilling — to see reality. Remember, much of what drives the Left is what they wish could be so and think should be so w/o consequences or limitations.
It is a juvenile mentality, but in the end, Nature brooks no disobedience to her Laws. If we construct a society with unworkable economic policy, social norms that select us for extinction and national security theory that is based upon appeasing those who hate us, our way of life — and We the People ourselves will not survive.
It remains to be seen how far along the American people have been successfully resigned to [or distracted from] our ultimate demise. Others are already within our borders waiting to replace us and our way of life.
“Others are already within our borders waiting to replace us and our way of life.”
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Very true but unrealized by many. The final war may be between the different groups fighting over the carcass of what used to be the United States of America.