[lentulusgracchus]

Good links, thanx, I'd seen Codevilla's article in The American Spectator and personally sent links to everyone I think cares about reading and politica. It's a Rosetta Stone for much of modern politics and understanding the republic's, and our society's, maladaptions and disorders.

The minor clerisy's preoccupation with ministering to "social problems" (and their inveterate spreading of dependency) reminds me of the "relief" racket one sees at the local drugstores, whose manufacturers concoct a dozen different labels of the same "relief", e.g. miconazole, at the same potency guaranteed not to cure, but only to relieve. And keep the customer returning for more.

[familyop]

"The minor clerisy's preoccupation with ministering to "social problems" (and their inveterate spreading of dependency) reminds me of the "relief" racket one sees at the local drugstores,..."

Agreed, and well said.