It looks like the end, but for who?

There is a fairly large class of people who should be classified as priests or clerics, who these days occupy the nominal professions and bureaucracies of law and education. They provide us with moral instruction; arrange the exposure and punishment of our sins; and conduct sacrifices for the absolution of individual and collective transgressions. What do teachers and professors primarily do, except tell us how bad we are and have been? What do lawyers do except keep us on the liberal straight and narrow and go after the uncooperative? What do judges and legislatures do but create laws to control potentially unliberal behavior and make payments to the victims?

Ok, that’s not all they do, but it’s a big part. In a stable society- where they maintain a constant level of influence and access, they stay at the side of the powerful, whispering in the ear and tugging at the sleeve, but not actually occupying the chair.

When these people actually take power, or have too much influence they become an excessive burden and the people revolt. The time from the Johnson landslide to the election of Nixon was only for years. The Silent Majority is not silent these days. The left is in the process of a grotesque and unwise overreaching- Obama didn’t even expect to win, he only hoped to prepare for a future campaign.

This has a way to go to play out but Obama and friends are on their way out and fairly quickly. What is going to be cobbled together to replace them remains to be seen, but if we don’t put an end to the madness the Chinese will.