As a result, whenever something bad happens, they trot out their cliche decline jeremiad, a genre that links purported symptoms of national decline to spiritual causes. This inartful dodge prevents the actual roots causes of serious social issues from being addressed and corrected.
While they would contend that to give up their views on such matters as prayer in school and the so-called traditional family would lead to a destructive nihilism, it’s their inability to trust their own moral compass that leads them into a violent and ultimately nihilistic politics, one that puts greater trust in a strict top-down hierarchy than in democracy or the rule of law.
Unfortunately, until they are defeated politically, we are stuck with the devastating social consequences of their political externalization and projection.
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