The disgust is only the beginning

[elfs]

Once upon a time, I read National Review. Writers like John Derbyshire and Victor Davis Hanson were, a few years ago, interesting, fresh with new ideas, and startlingly intellectual. Hanson has since devolved into a cheerleader for the President because he can't imagine an alternative, and Derbyshire recently shot himself in the foot by referring to the victims of Virginia Tech as "cowards" for refusing to take on an armed assailant all by themselves.

And then I am reminded that the senior editor at National Review once said that the goverment should mandate that every positive HIV diagnosis in this country should come with a tattoo warning for potential sex partners, preferably on the buttocks. I wondered what should be written there. "Abandon every hope, ye who enter?"

But an entry today by Thomas Sowell reveals the vicious mindlessness to which they have descended:

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

That's all you need to read. Really. Go ahead and "enjoy" the rest of the article, but really, that encompasses the whole of his thought.

Comments

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

Getting people "out into the streets" is rarely a good way to solve any problem -- it generates a lot of heat and noise but very little light. It also means that the political situation is moving from rule-by-constitution to rule-by-violence (or the threat of violence), and remember:

1) Goon squads beat peaceful demonstrators, and
2) Troops beat goon squads,

so in the end this leads to rule by an alliance of goon squads and the military. This is how the Weimar Republic fell, in the early 1930's.

[sirfox.livejournal.com]

i was thinking more of the peaceful protests and work stoppages in Ukrane in 2004, in response to a horridly corrupt and illegally conducted election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution