This is a completely awesome article.
I think it is worth pinging loads of people to, especially now that it is too late to get the Demodogs even more worked up.
Did you catch these quotes:? [I hate to pick any one out - there are so many more good ones]
One response might be that we are living in a world where words have lost their meaning. This is certainly not a new phenomenon. It seems to be an inevitable artifact of cultural disintegration. ...
Our problems, however, seem to go even deeper. It is not simply that the same words don't have the same meanings; in our lifetime, words are ceasing to have any meaning. ...
And we no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens. ...
Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. ...
The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document. ...
We find ourselves, like the captain, in a situation that is hopeless but not yet desperate. The arcs of history, culture, philosophy, and science all seem to be converging on this temporal instant. ... But, it is too soon to despair. ...
Oh, yes. I had read it through closely already, and had already seen some of the quotes, but I didn't save a link to it. Now I'm gonna save it.