In analyzing the evolution of popular beliefs, values, and attitudes in a mixed economy (Graph 3), the prevailing trend is toward an increasingly collectivist psychological orientation, while individualist ideas fall more and more into disfavor. As a consequence of growing interventionism, the state comes to control a greater and greater proportion of the economy's resources. Therefore it becomes less and less practical for individuals to achieve their ends through private means; consequently, they turn instead to the state, seeking to achieve those ends politically. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that popular thinking becomes dominated by the notion that human ends can only be achieved through the political means—an assumption which we have identified as the Fallacy of Political Reductionism (pp. 3.12:13-36). The political pressure generated by such attitudes leads the state to undertake further projects and take control of further resources. In Germany's Weimar Republic, it is estimated that central and local governments controlled over half of the income in the nation by 1928. (Cf. the 33.8% paid in taxes by Americans, cited on p. 4.11:100.) After that point, Germany's rising tide of totalitarianism was probably almost ineluctable. Scroll down to view the causal influences just cited on the graph.