If Tuesday’s election results are a prediliction of next year’s mid-term results, the United States will continue on its road to ruin.

A report on last week’s elections appear on the right side of this page.

It’s always best to keep an optimistic outlook. In this case we can always hope the rest of the Nation is not as far advanced into insanity as the few United Socialist States of the Northeast U.S., plus California where a decision was made to leave 40% of the state’s residents (Republican) unrepresented in Congress.

The leftist voters of New York, New Jersey, California and Virginia possibly should just remove themselves to Cuba, Venezuela, China or North Korea so that they can dive head-first into the socialist system they desire.

The nation’s founders realized democracies are inclined to turn into socialism, followed by dictatorship.

James Madison, the man given credit for writing most of our Constitution, wrote the following: “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government... I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Townhall Columnist Mark Lewis cites a few more wise individuals from the past on this:

• The 18th-century Scottish historian Sir Alexander Fraser Tytler: “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

• Benjamin Franklin concurred with Sir Tytler on this. It is more succinct but makes the same observation: “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

“Note that old Ben said it was just a “herald” of the end of the Republic,” Lewis observes.

“It doesn’t cause immediate collapse. But this trumpet has been blaring in America for several decades now, and it is warning us, ever more clearly, that we cannot go on like this forever. People voting themselves money will eventually destroy the republic.”

• Alexis de Tocqueville, in a brilliant quote, explains why: “Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.’” “Note that ‘legal charity (the welfare state) creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.’” America has already turned into a welfare state, basically socialist.

How else do you explain 42 million Americans (about 12% of the population) on food stamps?

Plus the admittance of millions of illegal aliens under the previous Democrat administration, some of whom likely came looking for a ”free” living.

This growing cancer explains the nation’s $38 trillion national debt and its ultimate end when the debt comes due.

Washington politicians have been directing America toward this end, thinking – probably correctly – they won’t be around to take the blame when the disaster occurs.

They won’t but their children, grandchildren and other innocent victims of today’s stupidity will. And many of the current politicians likely don’t care. They concentrate on power.

Lewis also comments on the problem this way: “How long can a nation survive laziness among huge numbers of people, a class that produces nothing, only parasites off those who do? Well, we don’t know the answer to that question, but obviously, the longer the parasites suck the lifeblood of an economy from the productive sectors of society, they will continue to drain the wealth of that society, and create more dependents like themselves. Giving away money, de Tocqueville said, encourages the lazy, idle, and indigent. That money has to come from somewhere, and it’s obvious from where it must come. Politicians know that the lazy and idle vote, especially if other people’s money is transferred to them. It is what has happened in America and has put us countless trillions of dollars in debt.”

The Democrat wins were expected. The elections were in deep blue states.

I remember reading years ago, a Congressman (I think he was a Democrat) commenting – I think ironically – on the seemingly huge government expenditures of that time: “A million here and a million there and soon you’re talking about real money.”

The socialist democrats pushing the nation’s spending today must be brought under control – by kicking them out, whatever their party.