Yeah I agree. Even Reagan likely loses last night. The demographics are different.
If the conservatism we sell on this board were in vogue, then Todd Akin, Mourdock, Mia Love, Allen West, Josh Mandel, etc all win. But they didn’t.
There is a new young generation of single people out there who want the government to be their parent. They don’t have a traditional family most of us rely on nor a religion to fall back on. They want to belong to something and government is offering them the best alternative in their minds.
Religion and work? Too hard. Obama gives me phones and free birth control. And he doesn’t judge me or expect much from me.
Exactly. You can see it in your community too (at least I can). I have a cousin who lives off disability even though he could work (just not the hard manual labor he used to do). I have a brother — an electrician — who lays off 4 months a year collecting unemployment and uses it as a long vacation. He doesn’t even try to find a job until the Spring. I know a couple where the husband gave up working to be a “house husband” even though he could find a job and the wife doesn’t make that much. I could go on and on. People don’t think they are obligated to support themselves. 80 years of the Welfare State have conditioned them to think that Mommy and Daddy Government is going to take care of them and that the “rich” have an obligation to fund the Ponzi Scheme forever.