Originally Posted by
mark blazejewski
Lee, you and I both, as old as we are, keep asking this question, but in a sense, does that question not speak to our naive incredulity?
We both viewed and experienced the incremental but steady march toward socialism.
The sermonized distinctions of economic class warfare by the Left, not only led to the perceived common-sense need for the balanced scale which was resultant from the Labor Movement, but a general acceptability of radical, albeit incremental, government-imposed socialist remedies.
The New Deal and the Fair Deal set the template for the far-reaching the Great Society, which created a nation of petulant, dependent children with an "entitlement" mentality, constantly clamoring for more "stuff." The only requirement of the "entitled" was to permit more and more government control, to accept without resistance, less money from earned income, and to indulge significantly unchallenged, government intrusions into its personal life; small prices to pay for the perceived "free ride."
That "entitlement" mentality proved to be generational with exponentially increasing expectations.
For those like us Lee, witnessing and enduring the gradual growth of that mentality, which was strongly enabled by the concurrent socialist infiltration of our educational institutions, and the gradual slouch toward the acceptability of both socialist and humanist ideals in our society, has had, in my opinion, the effect of the metaphoric "Boiling Frog" upon our psyches.
I do not see a Trump re-election as a decisive reverse-trend turning point; at best, it will produce a resultant battlefield stalemate. This march toward socialism will, in the future, be either checked or accepted by magnified civil upheaval, just my dire opinion.