Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The collapse of the American moral and intellectual establishment is old news.
People on a widespread basis calling them out on it is new. And welcome. And even Christ-like.
“Whited sepulchres” ring a bell?
I’ve missed his blog. He’s a voice of sense.
Elizabeth Magill was born in 1966. That’s about the vintage of our current institutional leadership. Every once in a while you encounter someone from those cohorts who does business in a way which suggests that ethical norms, professionalism, civic spirit, and patriotism are binding obligations for them. Most such people seem to come from older cohorts. Most people in charge of anything seem like crooked institutional politicians who can hardly utter an honest word. Same deal for people in word merchant occupations. A great deal of public discussion seems lunatic because it is conducted by people who never stop lying to themselves and lying to others (but are regrettably in a position to injure non-liars).
Don’t you already have to be someplace above sea level to collapse? “Moral” and “intellectual” aren’t the first words that come to mind when considering the current American Establishment.