Have we lost America?

Someone at another blog noted that we began to lose America when the politicians said the equivalent of "We know what we're doing. Here's your government check."

The guy lamented that the big-government welfare state has become so deeply entrenched that the chances of recovering are down to 50/50. But then he added a great rallying line:

"I want to save America, not just stretch out the decline!"

Damn, that's good.

Now, how do we do that?

For starters, he noted that the low-information voters--who comprise at least half the electorate--don't know jack about Keynesian theories, let alone the rebuttals to those theories. Macroeconomics? You'd have better luck trying to teach your dog calculus.

Short answer: No one has yet found a way to get low-information voters to see the inexorable result of demanding "freebies" from taxpayers. Their sphere of interest ends at their hand. Any proposal that doesn't contain the magic word "free" will be either ignored or angrily condemned--often with the term "raaacist", even though whites benefit from the same programs.

Thus the battle is for the independent or swing voters. At the moment that group seems to be less impressed with Dem/liberal/"progressive" policies than in years past.

Hopefully that distaste will last through November of 2012.