Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
In danger of becoming a one party state? I think we're there. Most Americans look to the government to solve all of their problems for them. Few if any show any sort of self-confidence to address their own problems themselves.
I think this is overly pessimistic. Just looking around me, the vast majority of people I know work for a living. The only person I know on public assistance is a state-certified paranoid schitzophrenic who has to take medicine or the voices start again. And in his case, I don't see why the minimal support he gets is a bad thing. Would we rather he were on the streets, unmedicated, defecating in his hand and screaming about demons?

Anyway, if you're going to argue that the vast majority of Americans are welfare-suckling statists who can't make their own way, it would be helpful if you provided some sort of backup.