To a certain political ideology, the ideal citizen is one who firmly believes that nothing is possible without the aid or permission of the Almighty State.
The citizen attitudes that support this goal include guilt, helplessness, uncertainty, a sense of incompetence, and the feeling that there is no way to make it on one's own. How much of what you hear from the usual sources seems designed to make you feel this way?
"Without us, you are nothing."
The attitudes that obstruct statist goals are independence, self-confidence, pride in one's achievements, and ambition. Such a person does not need the State running their lives, and generally ends up resenting it when it's forced on her.
A successful, prosperous, self-reliant American becomes the enemy.
You sometimes see parents that cripple their children by destroying their independence and self-image, making them "children" forever. How should we feel about this when it's institutionalized?
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That feeling has been deliberately engineered.
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