I’m with Fred on his take about too many Americans not appreciating the perils of socialism. There is a lot of rationalization going on in regards to entitlements and government interference. Many Americans think we can pick and choose our socialistic programs, cafeteria-style, and somehow still maintain an “American” system. Unfortunately, they may be right, up to a point. We haven’t yet reached that point in the minds of many. Too bad. We will eventually suffer the full consequences. One would think that the consequences we are suffering from already as a result of what we picked from the “cafeteria” would be sufficient, but two things are different now than they were in 1980(Reagan) and 1994 (Republican takeover of Congress): the demographics have changed, and the left has gotten to still more of our children.

Someday, when a yearning for and conversations about freedom take hold, it will have to be framed in a totally new context because the ideals of the Founding Fathers will be meaningless to future generations of this place which may still be called America.