Like I stated in my response to the Healthcare article; it is actually stunning to realize how recent these legislative changes are, that brought us to this point. It is also quite telling that they used an actor (Ronald Reagan) to push many of these policies down our throats. The spoonful of sugar, with the medicine; remember those Reagan Democrats?

Then at the point where people were finally awaking to the fact that both parties are one and the same; producing the same results due to the over-exposure of G.W. Bush (The de-facto end of the White Male Paradigm), they packaged and sold us Obama.