John Hinderaker:
On paper, given Obama’s record, this election should be a cakewalk for
the Republicans. Why isn’t it? I am afraid the answer may be that the
country is closer to the point of no return than most of us believed.
With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits,
millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on
top of that living on entitlement programs–not to mention enormous
numbers of public employees–we may have gotten to the point where the
government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real
economy. My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political
philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure
out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come . . . .
Maybe this anxiety is misplaced. President Obama has never been able to
rise above 47% support in the polls, and perhaps when November comes
undecided voters will break against the incumbent, as the conventional
wisdom has it. Maybe the election won’t be so close after all. We’d all
better hope so. Because, given the rate at which Democrats are
frantically adding to the dependency state, another four years of Obama
may be enough to tip the balance between the private sector and
government dependence once and for all.
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