For the last 50 years (at least!) liberalism in America has been based on the "free lunch" concept. Nobody has personal responsibility for anything. Everyone can have everything without personal cost. It's all like the the teenager who says to his/her parents, "I want to be ME and do everything MY way, but I need to do this on YOUR money."

It's easy to get impressionable people to lean toward liberalism, simply because it's a "no strain, no responsibility, it's somebody else's fault" philosophy.

Conservatism will have a major revival, once the liberals have bankrupted the nation, and with a little more debt that potential is only a couple decades away. There's not a lot of liberalism in countries where survival is a daily battle, and we're not that far from that situation. Once no one wants to lend the US any more money, there will be no money to fund all the social programs. When that happens, it will be brutal here.

W have been living on the fallacy that the world needs the US market. Europe is starting to be as materialistic as the US. The Asian markets (especially India and China) are immense, and starting to grow. South America (especially Brazil) is growing big-time. So, the world already sees the US market as dwindling, along with the declining value of the dollar. Yeah, that dollar which bought 360 Yen just 40 years ago and now is worth less than 94 Yen now - the same ratio exists in the Dollar:SwissFranc historical exchange.

So, the liberals can dance around the Maypole all they want. It will end. The cities will feel the first pinch, and then the choke-hold will set in there. Then, the conservatives will have to rebuild this nation, as they built it in the beginning.

I'm glad I learned to fish and hunt.