[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Valid. But that stereotyped pejorative use of the term "medieval" is outdated.
Obama is a thoroughly modern and secular humanist socialist produced from the scientism, positivism, multiculturalism, and PC absurdities of the post-Protestant Columbia and Harvard fever swamps, claiming Enlightenment, progress, and all of the nonsense of scientific materialism.

The One would do well to study Magna Carta, Anglo-Saxon Common Law, constitutional theory and natural law from Richard Hooker on. The scandal is that modern secular society, with all of its claims to Enlightenment and science, has lost the ability to reason through common sense. Macaulay predicted this end for modern democracy and Burke was already picking up on similar trends among the Jacobins of the French Revolution. Obama's neo-Jacobin modern gnosticism, mixed with Rev. Wright's crackpot Protestant chiliasm and millenarianism, is a good case study, all enabled and notarized by Harvard, the modern secular Democratic party, and the secular humanists of the mainstream media. This is modernity without restraint.

Right down to Anita Dunn's quotations from Chairman Mao and the Frankfurt School Marxism of the administration and its glad-handing enablers at Harvard, Columbia, and the Council on Foreign Relations proclaiming the shibboleths of global socialism, secular humanism, and population control. Maybe they can trot out David Gergen and Bill Moyers to announce this is what was meant by "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" all sealed with a handshake and a wink on PBS as they dope the kids up with another round of mercury vaccines.

[arthurus]

Modern America has lost touch with History. It is not taught in the schools any more so we have generations of Leaders who never learned what has been tried in the past, what works, and what sorts of things haven’t worked. With no actual knowledge of the past people/voters are susceptible to all sorts of irrational dreams and schemes.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I'm glad you brought up the schoolboy dumbness of the "medieval" trope, Howl, because I was irked by it, but didn't know if correcting it was worth my effort.

VDH is a classically-trained historian, and should know better.

Rather than wear out my fingers (and FR readers) running down this rabbit-trail (OK, mixed mataphor, but hey) try these on evaluating medievalism, for starters:

The Age of Unreason, Pfui, and

OK, can't pick... let's say anything by Thomas Madden

Thanks, and a Happy Thanksgiving to you!

[annalex]

that stereotyped pejorative use of the term "medieval" is outdated.

Indeed, as is his silly sin/confession analogy. There is nothing wrong in confessing sins actually committed, as well as paying for environmental damage actually caused. The problem with left wing environmentalism is that the damages are bogus, not with the principle of compensation itself.

[caddie]

"...has lost the ability to reason through common sense."

Absolutely. Common sense, based ultimately on immutable laws of logic or math, used to be passed on either formally in schools or informally as, well, 'common sense'.

Today's educators (sic) will have none of that.

Literally the entire day is spent indoctrinating kids with nonsense such as 'Diversity is Strength'. Whereas not ten percent of them can make or break the simplest logical argument, formally posed or informally posed.

They literally can not think themselves out of a paper bag.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Just to clarify: by “he” I mean Obama, of course..