America today can be thought of as divided between Makers and Takers. Makers (about 163 million) —the producer class —and Takers —the ever-increasing number of people receiving government support (over 72 million adults) to live, including over 20 million immigrants, and excluding most Social Security recipients.
Benefits Today, Bankruptcy Tomorrow:-
The vast number of takers, beginning to outnumber the producers, creates a divide that exploits our divisions, with a singular endgame: those pushing for ever more benefits seek to end pluralistic Western Civilization and Capitalism. Not with pitched armies facing off, but with the slow drip of our political and social bodies’ vital fluids bleeding out. For validation, look no further than the former British Empire, whose motto was “Where the sun never sets.” You can view our future as theirs if we can’t bend the curve. With cries of “Tax the Rich” echoing in my ears, I’m reminded of this quote from Benjamin Franklin :
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
That day has arrived. It’s no secret that there is a growing divide in America between the Makers and the Takers, who view life as an endless cycle of entitlement. A virtual buffet of freebies reinforces the idea that a prosperous America owes the takers a satisfying existence as a base-level right. Witness that reality with the threat certain takers made when their SNAP benefits were threatened: “Fuming SNAP recipients threaten to loot if food stamps are cut.”
The mechanism and the messaging the left has devised to reinforce that ‘right’ was reduced to a single word—equity. The requirement for ‘Equity‘ at every level and stratum of our civilization, even this core tenet, is transitioning, analogous to a dying black hole, no longer strong enough gravitationally to fool enough people, even simpletons. Time to move on! Equity was the “Four legs good, two legs bad” narrative used to concentrate collective thought. That word became overused enough that it began to lose its meaning for some of its adherents. Therefore, the question became: what’s next?
Trumpet Roll!
Affordability. Affordability transmutes into the new equity. You have to wonder: Is there a focus group or marketing guru who has compiled a list of tested words and phrases that can be ginned up as required? The word ‘viral’ originally referred to how actual viruses spread, but in the 90s, it was picked up by pop culture, which favored ‘quickness’ in everything. Affordability, nee equity, infers that there’s some grand conspiracy to make life unaffordable; that sees the producer class intentionally cheating everyone else.
It also disingenuously disguises the real reason life has become unaffordable: the growth of government, regulations, and the evolving truth about today’s young—the death of striving. Striving is a necessary component of capitalism—a growing, not static economic pie. Government policies kill growth.
Our young takers are drawn to the emotional appeal—the vibe of what’s in, what’s catching fire—ultimately substituting what’s essential for what’s trendy and hip. Virality has subsumed our entire culture with quick but unfulfilling or vacuous nonsense, texting instead of talking, expression through memes, workplace balance, and social media that detracts them from using their young years to get ahead. Why waste brain energy looking for truth when the masses care more about cool new slogans, buzzwords, and viral get-togethers than about actually living a productive life requiring hard work?
And the omnipresent left is their quartermaster, there to supply their emotional and purient needs, supporting living life in the moment, with as little thought or effort as possible. Willingly enslaved individuals who no longer think for themselves, now part of the left’s collective hive, forgoing freedom for meaningless sloganism, annealing their lives to a death cult, becoming perpetual takers and the left’s reliable self-destructive drones.
The messaging can and does change; participants can be reliably expected to show up whenever they are needed; anti-fascism today, tax the rich tomorrow, the more absurd, the more they believe it to be true. How else to explain how we saw Jews voting for Mamdani or women who pledge not to have children in a fervent hope that our civilization dies out?
Are the takers birthing a new religion right before our eyes?
Observe people in Portland, Broadview, New York, LA, and wherever protesters gather not just to protest, but to rage, bonding socially with like-minded individuals, they think alike and ‘get it’ what used to be termed ‘woke’, now passe. That’s the ultimate goal for this clearly identifiable demographic of primarily white, older people —predominantly female—who apparently have a lot of time on their hands and can somehow afford to show up at rallies and demonstrations, sometimes hundreds or thousands of miles apart.
It is a recent phenomenon that a growing number of people no longer aspire to work, raise a family, or better themselves. It’s a product of an indulgent society that forgot that people need structure and a rules-based system built on God, family, and work. In its absence, we were left rudderless and adrift.
T.S. Eliot wrote: “This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.” I look out and view millions with a fractured view of history and a desire to will their way to an imaginary future bereft of logic, morality, and self-sacrifice. No such thing!
God Bless America!
Allan J. Feifer—Patriot
Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com. Read additional great writers here.
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