The idiotization of our politics

The above title comes after much thought. It is not easy to say what has become of our nation’s politics. But it seems to have become an exercise no longer in how to fool all the people some of the time, nor some of the people all the time, but how to fool all the people all the time. It seems to have become the affair of idiots, by idiots, and for idiots. Faced with the most serious problems in the world, beginning with the utter lackof competent and honest men and women to provide solutions to those problems, we look not for the wisest and most virtuous of men and women to address those problems, but rather for the allegedly “most popular,” according to the paid propaganda surveys.

By “popular,” we do not mean those who are known to have done something good and noble for God, people, and country. Or those who still fight for truth, peace, and justice, regardless of cost or consequence; or those who still care about morality in private life and in the public square, about the complementarity of man and woman and the difference between the sexes etc. Or those who insist that the young should still be taught what is good and bad, what’s right and wrong.