Affluence
- As the most prosperous country in the world, we have countless millions of people in this country who, by world standards, are affluent. With affluence there tends to come a keep-to-yourself mentality when it comes to politics and elections.
- Result: DISENGAGED
- Let's face it, Americans are apathetic when it comes to politics until their checkbook is impacted. We are busy raising our families and working to make ends meet. Who has time to pay attention to what's going on in Washington D.C. or Raleigh or Trenton or Austin or Sacramento.
- Result: DISENGAGED.
That's how you get a President Obama despite the fact that his stated goal was to "fundamentally transform" the greatest country in the history of the world and "spread the wealth around".
That's how you get approval ratings for President Obama in the mid-40% despite the fact that we have the worst recovery since The Great Depression, record unemployment, record deficits, crony capitalism of biblical proportions, an out of control Justice Department, Obamacare shoved down our throats, a war on success and an all-out assault on capitalism.
Sad!
