Betrayal

[stoutfellow]

Thomas Sowell has been recommended to me, on occasion, as a clear and thoughtful spokesman for modern conservatism. I have one of his books in my library, though I have done no more than glance at it.

In a recent opinion column, Thomas Sowell wrote the following:

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

Words fail me. I mean that literally. I have been struggling to come up with something witty, something incisive, something coherent to express the fury with which that comment fills me. I have contemplated the satiric, the grave, even the obscene; nothing suitable has come to me.

I say this: that which could be "saved" of this country by a military coup... would not be this country. It would be a shambling hulk, an Alzheimer's nation; it would not be the United States in anything but name.