The folks who are getting the Free Stuff don’t like the folks who are paying for the Free Stuff, because the folks who are paying for the Free Stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the Free Stuff and their own stuff.

And, the folks who are paying for the Free Stuff want the Free Stuff to stop. And, the folks who are getting the Free Stuff want even more Free Stuff on top of the Free Stuff they are already getting.

So: The people who are getting the Free Stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the Free Stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their Free Stuff and giving them the Free Stuff in the first place.

We have let the Free Stuff giving go on for so long that there are now more people getting Free Stuff than paying for the Free Stuff.

All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason? The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 238 years ago.

The number of people now getting Free Stuff outnumbers the people paying for the Free Stuff. So, where are we headed?