The most destructive aspect of a nanny-state welfare system is that it cultivates large numbers of useless malcontents.
We must remember that it is the left in this country, really just underground Communists, who foment much of this discontent. That is their MO all over the world. Often their tactic is not to find a grievance but to create a grievance.
The poor have been with us forever and being poor in itself does not bring discontent. Most of the world has been poor for its entire history. As long as there is not starvation, poverty is routinely tolerated. By simply following the dictates of the Bible, or any religion other than Islam, it is apparent that happiness is not in worldly possessions or positions of power. Being content with poverty is not an aberation of human nature.
But let someone come on the scene and start telling you how terribly you are being treated by the rich and powerful and pretty soon many will become unhappy with their lot in life, a lot they were content with shortly before. Before long they have aggressive discontent with the powers that be. The agitators then use this discontent to gain power for themselves.
This present wave of Wahhabism is directly connected to the rise in Communism, which incidentally does parallel the end of WWI, and its cousin Nazism. The Nazis took an active role in the ME before and during WWII and the Communists took up the slack afterward. Ever since the Muslims have been imbued with an active hatred of democracy, and therefore, the West and Israel.
The Communists aren't dead, they are just playing dead and operating in stealth around the world, no where stronger than in this country and specifically in the Democrat Party and even more specifically through Hillaryski. The Wahhabis a just their latest surrogates.
Very interesting points you raise there.
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