[betty boop]

Conservative thinkers often put forward restitutive proposals for Western Civilisation based upon legislative changes. But ... no matter how illustrious or well designed the institutions, unless the men that give life to institution are good, the institution will fail.

Shades of Plato here....

There is absolutely no way in the world to craft a "good polity" by acts of the government when the people who comprise the polity — essentially the citizenry — are themselves "bad."

As Solzhenitsyn so truly said, "... the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts."

Thanks ever so much for posting this excellent article, grey_whiskers! Indeed, "interesting and chilling parallels" exist between 1930s Germany and contemporary American society....

[Alamo-Girl]

There is absolutely no way in the world to craft a "good polity" by acts of the government when the people who comprise the polity — essentially the citizenry — are themselves "bad."

Indeed. Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ!