Our Dawning New Age...

On CNN tonight, they talked about the "new electorate", the young, minorities, etc.  About the same time, I stumbled on this tidbit from an NCAAP poll:

95% blacks say Feds should provide jobs 

Paul Bedard - November 6, 2012 - 2:33 pm  

Providing an 11th hour clue to how blacks will vote on the presidential stage, 95 percent of African Americans believe that the federal government should be the nation's jobs creator...

I think this is representative of this "new electorate"...  The only way to win them is to buy them.  I don't know why, and I don't know how, but my generation and younger have somehow convinced themselves that government, not individual initiative, is the engine of civilization, prosperity, and progress.

There's a quote attributed to Ben Franklin that sums up the dawning new age that this philosophy will bring:

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."

When democracy becomes a tool to expropriate what you want from others, we are all slaves.

What does it mean for you and me today? Maybe nothing... but the long, inexorable decline has truly begun.