That’s what Ed Hudgins forecasts in this terrific article.

Hudgins writes, “Most productive Americans not only take responsibility for their own lives and well-being, they also value their independence, their freedom to make their own lives as they see fit, not to make themselves subservient to politicians and bureaucrats. Now they see their independence taken away from them in the name of those who allegedly can only survive as sobjects of charity expropriated from them.”

That’s the great rift that has ripped open America like a vast earthquake — the division between those who want to live with freedom and independence and those who demand that everyone accept the socialistic notion that our work and allegiance must be to the collective. It has the nanny state left all hot and bothered that a lot of Americans rebel at their plans for “remaking” America in a way that dispenses with “old fashioned” ideas about liberty and property. They ought to apologize for their arrogance and smears against people who are peacefully protesting against actions they see as corrupt, illegal, and ruinous, but the Obama/Pelosi/Reid cabal will no more do that than Fidel Castro will apologize for the wreck he’s made of Cuba.