–That is why the bad economy has been so destructive to the Obama cause. It eats away at his ranks; pulls away millions of expectant follows who are discovering with increasing frequency that there is no check in the mail, no final pension they can count on.

Really? Has anyone defaulted on the pension yet? They’ve stolen from bondholders. They’ve stolen from shareholders. But they’ve not emptied the public unions’ coffers, and they haven’t made null and void the public pensions.

EVEN IN CITIES THAT HAVE DECLARED BANKRUPTCY in CA, they’ve declined to use the opportunity to void the pension agreements.

I don’t see anyone moving away. The poor and not-too-poor get more public assistance; the non-white-men receive more versions of more help, be it federal student loans or mortgage programs or food pantries regardless of income requirements. The ones at a loss are the old demographics. They aren’t wanted, and they aren’t the future.

It may be difficult to imagine, but the reason that more people are self identifying as conservative is because the country has moved so far left that ideas that were once middle of the road are now right winger.

What will it take to move the pendulum back? A new ocean to cross. It’s time to prepare our children for discipline and hard work wherever that takes them, as far away as need be. It was a long time before those religious zealots got out of Britain and made it to the US. It may be a long time again before another metaphorical ocean is crossed.