While I didn’t read the Newsweek piece (never touch the stuff,) and while it may shock right-minded Americans, the premise is right. 52% of Americans did vote for a known socialist of the Alinsky-Mao stripe, not to speak of the appalling herd of Dimmy sleazebag moochers, statists, social planners and demogogues leaving their trail of slime in the Capitol building now. And while discerning people lIke Claudia Rossette may hope for a Rennaissance of conservative literature and knowledge, I think we naively base such hopes on past generations while ignoring anominous, depressing fact – the barbarians have taken over the schools too, producing a class of history, economics-civil illiterates which produced the edge in their votes. Simply put, Americans do not even read anymore. The article would have been better titled, “We Are All Idiots Now.”