Quoted at NRO, from David Warren: "In the United States, especially in the present election, we get glimpses of two political solitudes that have been created not by any plausible socio-economic division within society, nor by any deep division between different ethnic tribes...The nation is divided, roughly half-and-half, between people who instinctively resent the Nanny State, and those who instinctively long for its ministrations. And every kind of specious racial, economic, cultural and class division has been thrown into the mix to add to its toxicity.
He regards these as "two basically irreconcilable views of reality"...Only in America are they so equally balanced. Elsewhere in the West, the true believers in the Nanny State have long since prevailed."
Me: so do we succumb as the rest of the world has...or do we fight on?
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