suburban refugee wrote:
That might be insightful, if you ignore the smug, lazy generalizations and it being completely wrong. For all the noise conservatives make about self reliance, their hands shoot right out when there's a check to be collected from the government, followed by a whole lot of self-righteous bitching about how government is evil, except when it benefits them, of course.
It was government that made us what we've become.  It has taken years.... decades since Roosevelt favored us with Social Security while at about the same time, the communists started infiltrating our educational system.  Humans are gullible and take too much at face value with little interest in self-awareness.  Politicians in particular know how to use that against us. It's worked well with all but the most stubborn, who refuse to do what they're told is good for them.  Yet the most vulnerable are also the most unlikely to have the wherewithal to do anything about it.