We don't all have to be familiar with things like "Complete Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology" (see, e.g., http://books.google.com/books?id=F7vd7JQ4zlcC&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&dq=vertical+dependence+horizontal+dependence+corsini+encyclopedia&source=bl&ots=oIeoCkhris&sig=r5gBUGOFxbDazLYPJ80319pGp2o&hl=en&ei=u1b8S96ZEYzQMpCA1f8E&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) to know and understand the political psychologies "vertical dependency" and "horizontal dependency", which transcend any particular other dynamics or demographics.

Basically, vertical dependency on government is feudalism in a suit over pretty places, assigning each person or group/collectivization well-labelled positions to occupy in society without regard to any equity, dignity, work, income style, creativity or individualism at all; this was the case in the Communist nations, Nazi Germany, and even currently in Japan.

Horizontal dependency holds as does the USA Constitution that individualism is the root of all progress, freedom, and personal possibillities, with government there to support and protect individual effort and merit.

With Heritage Foundation and the USA government showing data that 50% of people in America do not get their homes, cars, or otherwise via taxable job/business income, and it appearing that no matter which race(s) make up what nation(s), together with tour de force attacks on Christianity and Judaism for their stress on individuality, obviously vertical dependency is being imposed via stagecraft and statecraft as if after 200+ years the USA is "finally getting with the right program"...instead of royalty and nobles assigning feudal existences, suits assigning who's needed for what as the suits deign or find expedient, as if everyone were some poseable stick figures.

Call me anachronistic, but I still support the notion of the Preamble to the USA Constitution that individualism is integral to freedom.