A very nicely written article by Daren Jonescu in American Thinker 11/12/2012 that is too long to display here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/america_votes_to_end_modern_civilization.html It really captures what has occurred and puts it into historical context. It assigns a name to the new paradigm and makes some appropriate comparisons to similar epochs. A good read for either side imho.
"Beginning January 1st, 2011 every single day more than 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach the age of 65. That is going to keep happening every single day for the next 19 years." 3 out of 4 choose to retire @ 62. This puts Obama '08 right at the begining of boomers retiring. Probably the majority of these boomers are white and we are cashing out. Good luck Obama the rock star with your new studio audience of minorties to run the country. Boyaah, bus those "short bus" voters to the poll and "show 'em" how to cast a ballot. And ... it's gone.
....and the new disability boom as I mentioned in another thread, 6% of the workforce now collecting checks at a cost that would finance another major war or two and is artifically holding down the unemployment rate (thereby helping the barbarians to power). The idea of working itself is one casualty of socialist states. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/02/disability-fraud-holds-down.html I don't think this was a turning point, I think it was the point of no return. I agree with the author that the left's ideas are not new, almost all been tried before and failed before. They are regressive, not progressive. Collectivism/socialism is a discredited economic theory but that doesn't stop even their so called intellectual wing since redistribution isn't about prosperity, it's about their concept of fairness. Freedom builds prosperity, liberal ways eat it up. Welcome to the downside.
"In simple terms, on November 6, America joined the rest of the lost world in declaring once and for all that private property is an illusion. The product of a man's labor does not rightfully belong to him, which means his labor itself -- his time and effort -- does not belong to him, which means his life does not belong to him. Modernity's project is nullified. Milton, Locke, Swift, Diderot, Montesquieu, Jefferson and all the rest -- obliterated at the ballot box." "With perfect, nearly poetic irony, modern civilization was ended by popular vote. If you cannot accept this -- if you are like the Republican Party establishment, the Washington pundits, and all others in whom the balm of incrementalism has produced the intellectual and moral paralysis of disbelief -- then you are of no use to us now. Get out of our way."