Growth of government dependent population in US is "long promised and awaited transformation of American politics," The Atlantic, 4/1/2010

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"He (Obama) could effect—as promised—the long-awaited transformation of American politics"" to the majority government dependent model. Long term unemployment is a big benefit to this political model.

4/1/2010, "The Obama Coalition," The Atlantic, Thomas Byrne Edsall

"These general findings suggest the possibility that the political strength of voters whose convictions are perhaps best described as Social Democratic in the European sense is reaching a significant level in the United States. With effective organization and mobilization, such voters are positioned to set the agenda in the Democratic Party in the near future.

At the same time, the share of the electorate made up of the demographic group most strongly committed to a political agenda relatively favorable to the material interests of the “haves” is declining. The U.S. Census predicts that by 2050, non-Hispanic whites will no longer be in the majority. Teixeira, in a report for the liberal Center for American Progress, predicts that by 2016 “it is likely that the United States will no longer be a majority white Christian nation.”

The potential or even incipient shift in the balance of power from “haves” to “have-nots” is not purely demographic. The shift stems from a combination of economic developments, especially the army of long-term unemployed and stagnant incomes at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder....

Obama has taken major risks. He could go down in flames; he could blend into history in the manner of Fillmore, Arthur, and Harding; or he could effect—as promised—the long-awaited transformation of American politics."

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9/18/12, "The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY," Daily Caller, Jim Treacher

Remember "Julia."

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Ed. note: Beltway Republicans agree with Democrats on this. The GOP wants more than anything to be left alone by the electorate. When the electorate is unable to have expectations of a better life, it is silenced.

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