Your observations are spot-on. It’s why I’ve become convinced that our electorate is about to take a hard-left populist turn.
Thanks. That hard-left populist turn already happened (in 2008), and doesn’t appear to be correcting itself any time soon. Dems get almost half the votes just by screaming “He’s white with money” at the Republican opponent (through their media outlets); just winning the government worker votes gives them a majority...
Our country saw a bloodless Boshevik coup in 2008, and few people even realize it. When they point to specific points that suck (like the new ObamaCare tax), they don’t see it as part of the larger movement that has simultaneously destroyed religious freedoms and privacy, stigmatized profits, etc.