In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
The self-described "progressive" pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display a provinciality reminiscent of that Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot as being one of time and place--theirs having little intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians in academia and "progressive" groups.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their teens in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because it does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which currently has control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.
As to why they display such provinciality, read my profile.
Whenever these clowns fancy themselves as intellectuals, it’s shooting fish in a barrel to disabuse them. Best done in a crowd, with witnesses and all...
Whatever they say is a mask. To hide their emptiness. They get pretty desperate when you twig to it too. My trick is hiding that I’m on to them - the give em rope deal.
I go toward humor mostly, since they fear it. Irony is better than sarcasm, since it’s based on truth. Sarcasm’s so 7th grade, which is why they use it - it really isn’t funny...it is based on hate, and lies. That’s the difference.