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Activists Shut Down Bank of America Branch in Washington #DC in Protest for Bank Dodging #Taxes. @BofA_News

I think it's safe to say that when these people say they want their country back, they aren't talking about the country of the 50s or 60s, with its "Tomorrowland" optimism. They want to go back to the Dust Bowl.

If this guy wasn't brainwashed, he'd be talking about how the wealthy should be pitching for these roads, but Rush tells him that taxes are evil, even for millionaires, and he believes it so fervently that he'd rather go back to a primitive state than challenge that orthodoxy. This is a sign of a culture in deep decline.

Maybe we need to realize that our old arguments about how Americans are so accustomed to living the good life that they would resist the natural consequence of this new feudalism aren't going to work. This anti-tax fervor has passed out of the political realm and into the religious. When people would rather that their kids choke on dirt than pay taxes, I'm guessing that pointing out that their unwillingness to pay taxes will result in tainted meat and dangerous drugs won't convince them. Living in a primitive state is a sign of their devotion.

One of the premier betterment projects in the history of the United States – and a major contributor to the productivity boom that made mindless consumerism so rewarding from the 50s onward – is literally being allowed to crumble to dust by people who just hate the idea of government services so much they will deliberately choose squalor over the most basic public improvements if it would mean they actually have to pay taxes to make their own lives better. It would be tempting to just let them do it, but of course it’s a lot of other people’s lives – particularly the poorest and those who most need basic infrastructure – that they’re also consigning to pre-war backwardism.