A very old idea from the ancient greeks. I completely agree with this theory. Sadly, I'm often treated like a conspiracy theorist when I tell people about it.
The idea is simple, there are seven stages of governance for people.
1. Monarchy, 2. Kingship, 3. Tyranny, 4. Aristocracy, 5. Oligarchy, 6. Democracy, and 7. Ochlocracy
The cycle just endlessly repeats itself through time.
I think you're absolutely right that Trump supporters' motivation seems to be "I work my ass off and don't have anything to show for it" (born out of wage stagnation in real terms). But the question would still be "Then why didn't they simply support a candidate that promised welfare increases?"
Part of the answer is that Clinton didn't lean on redistribution as her narrative to the degree Sanders did, probably to prevent Republican attacks. The optimist in me also likes to think that there is something in the American zeitgeist about work earning rewards. Which I think is confounded by two modern trends: free trade / automomation depressing or eliminating low and middle wage jobs, and a growing realization of wealth disparity and work effort disparity (e.g. myself making many multiples more than someone breaking their back building infrastructure).
End result being someone comparing their work effort to what he or she sees on TV, then comparing their rewards to what he or she sees on TV. And feeling depressed and angry as a result.
Next year we will spent around 25% on refugees. I wonder when the point of an emergency budget arrives.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/budget-battle-be...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-co...
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2016-02/fluechtlinge-haushalt-...
interestingly, German sources like Zeit estimates / writes about 50 billion for 2017, while all English sources low ball here. (or don´t cite the source) Zeit is a pretty well known source.
As we both know, projects and estimations are are hard! Very hard! So I guess it will be around 60 billion :)
Tax revenue plans around 230 to 300 billion. Hence the 25% and my guess that they will announce soon or later an emergency budget to cut costs (we have a law, basically saying: we must go to our black 0, at all costs) Cutting costs hits the usual targets (I guess):
https://www.iwkoeln.de/en/iw-news/beitrag/german-budget-why-...
http://www.dw.com/en/sch%C3%A4uble-clings-to-black-zero-feti...
Social services Infrastructure School and education
etc.
Interesting times are ahead :)
What a problem is that germans arw too expensive. Back when germany invited the turkish people they at least admitted they wanted cheap labor.
Now they are just lying. Or completely ignoring that in ten or twenty years those people will be useless and sit at home because a ton of those jobs will be automated.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-refugees-d...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2016/jan/06/refuge...
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy.