This Stratfor analysis brings home a basic truth. Discussing the reasons why the level of drug-related violence and (police) corruption is immeasurably greater in Mexico than Texas, right across the border, it concludes that culture is the basic difference.
...over time, an institution will take on the characteristics of, and essentially reflect, the environment surrounding it.
Liberalism has been working in this country to change the basic environment from one of individualism to collectivism; from one of the individual or family having the responsibility to take care of itself, to having the government – the “collective” – taking care of the individual. The risks to this change are becoming increasingly obvious; its hazards are illustrated by the tragedy of the commons. Today polls show that the people are opposed to the current levels of government spending and regulation, but when asked about programs that benefit them, wish to have them maintained.
It is also becoming obvious that when the State has power over our lives, the impact of bad or corrupt leaders becomes immeasurably greater.
Texas is not Mexico, but there is no reason it can’t become Mexico.
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