That mentality has been cultivated since the so-called Great Society of LBJ, add the government/Democrat run indoctrination (school) systems, removing God from the public square and the center of our lives, rampant drug abuse and we get the dependency cancer that took over the Democrat run cities and spreads outward. Just look at the change in the country from Reagan's 1984 landslide victory in 49 states. The only state that Mondale "won" was his home state of MN, and they had to cheat to do that. The Democrat party is now full on Marxist/Socialist and the Republicans, largely RINO keeping spending us into oblivion are afraid to call out the evil of ripping arms and legs off of a baby in the womb and sucking the child's brain out with a vacuum cleaner at the 7, 8, 9 months of life and wonder why they lose elections... insanity.