Wealth and prosperity (even if it's an illusion) tends to make people soft and decadent. It's a massive irony that the nation(s) which once fought for freedom and risked their existences to resist plainly evil totalitarian regimes are fast on track to becoming like that themselves. I feel about this matter like Martin Luther must have felt about the Catholic Church on the eve of Anno Domini 1517: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ninety-Five_Theses
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