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Deep.He has managed to distill the critical factors at play and present them in an easy-to-digest manner. However, I am doubtful that it will make much difference since a greater and greater number of people continue to take the first tentative steps towards deeper and deeper acceptance of socialist thought and belief.

In some ways it appears that the fall of the Communist evil empire hastened the downfall of the West, since now there was no longer an evil bastion to stand up against (not just physically, but also standing against their ideologies and precepts).

With no evil monster beyond the ridge, suddenly certain ideas were no longer wrong. No longer anathema. No longer 'foreign.'

Go to (almost) any American university and have a chat with the young minds there ...to many of them socialism (and to some, communism) are perfectly viable approaches to running things. A rising number even believe socialism (and to a fortunately fewer number - but rising also - communism) to be far better alternatives to capitalism. The economic doldrums over the last 10 years have also not helped much, and the rise of the East (India, China and even smaller economies like Viet Nam) means that there will be people always willing to work almost as well for considerably less (wait until Africa gets in line in the next 15 or so years ...Google Silicon Savannah for a taste of whats cooking in my native Kenya for instance). That means, unless something big happens, the West will have more and more young people either a) without jobs or b) without jobs that THEY THINK (the young people) are 'good enough' for them (the second problem is worse than the first one since a lot of the young EXPECT to get a 'certain type' of employment ...read: they can buy new posh cars, live well, take vacations ...there is no postponement of gratification at play). This means they will always feel like they have been let down, and socialism (and at a more extreme level communism) will simply continue to get more and more attractive.

As for those saying this is only happening in Blue States ....think again. In the first Bush election (Bush vs Gore) I was in Oklahoma working with the College Republicans (a student group) to get voter awareness out. Note: As a foreigner I couldn't even vote, but I was out there helping. The level of apathy I noted, and the level of Liberal thought, was amazing. Same thing in Texas by the way. It is not a Blue state thing.

Then to this add the slow-crawl demographic shift in the US.

Anyways, the article is spot on, and a lot of victories will mean nothing if the war is lost.