"If the young are not [properly] initiated into the village...."

Recently, while reading a book by Stephen Mansfield, I came across an African proverb that states, "If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."

As I read it, I couldn't help but think how applicable this warning is in 21st-century USA.

What with all the political-correctness and other liberal decay that has so corrupted, distorted and diluted the greatness of the Founding Fathers and their three greatest contributions to mankind - The Declaration of Independence, The U.S. Constitution and its associated Bill of Rights.

You see, nowadays our American youth are taught those men were contemptible, that the system of government thy created was - that is unless any liberal president or party is in the Oval Office or the majority of Congress - self-serving and oppressive to the masses (sounds a lot like Karl Marx, doesn't it?). And they're told that only through socialist means like "redistribution of wealth," etc can the "oppressive" ills and "wrongs" be righted.

Hence, because the youth are not properly initiated into the true American village, as a result of this kind of propaganda, they embrace "burning it down" through crippling taxation (of the % off the country NOT yet on the public dole), massive handout program expansion (for that % that already is) with the impact of an evermore and increasingly larger population infected with the Handout  Mentality Disease "just to feel warm."

As such, just as Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville foretold in 1838, the democracy is failing as "the people realize they can vote themselves benefit from the treasury."