Silent Majority

In 1965 Ayn Rand wrote: "All over the world, while mowing down one helpless nation after another, collectivism has been steadily losing the two elements that hold the key to the future: the brains of mankind and its youth...This is not to say that the anti-collectivists represent a numerical majority among college students.  The passive supporters of the status quo are always the majority in any group, culture, society, or age.  But it is not by passive majorities that trends of a nation are set.  Who sets them?  Anyone who cares to do so, if he has the intellectual ammunition to win on the battlefield of ideas, which belongs to those who do care." (Capitalism:The Unknown Ideal, Ayn Rand, Signet, 1967, pp. 303, 304; italics in original; bold underline added.)
This explains why we have gotten into the predicament we are now in with our government.  We were the "passive supporters" of what was the "status quo".  So we were not setting the trends of our nation.  Those who were setting them were the ones who cared "to do so".
What has happened now is that the majority has awakened and the advantage this majority has is that it has the "intellecual ammuntion to win the battlefield of ideas", because this majority does care.
The collectivists (i.e. the liberals, statists, believers in the nanny state) are losing or have lost the brains of mankind and the youth.  That is why they are screaming bloody murder.  They see the steam roller coming and they are pleading to stop it.
Sorry! We are not going to stop it.  Indeed, we hope to give it even more steam.  We do not want our country destroyed by the "leeches", because if it is destroyed by them, we all will be destroyed INCLUDING the "leeches".