As Miles isn't around these days, I feel I should lift up the mantle and quote Chomsky: "This country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority....and so it remains". I mainly know it as the quote is in a Manic Street Preachers song though...educated on rock n roll!

Even when you look back at the sixties, and the Summer of Love, there were large numbers of people against war and supporting left leaning parties, even into Communism and Socialism, but when those people grew older, certainly in terms of those who I know who have moved closer to the center than they were back then, I do think that the population shifts right as it ages.