A Disillusioned Conservative Friend send this along

He writes:

Something to think about and, I think, worth sharing.

I don’t agree with all of his points but it’s definitely thought-provoking, especially as I continue to survey with sadness and a tinge of despair that thing I have beleived in so long and am even paid to promote: the free market economy.

The final paragraph gibes pretty well with my sense of where things might be going:

I wager that in 10 years’ time, the nation will either have sunk itself beneath the untenable weight of continuing payment of a bribe that could never be sustained – and will look like a third world “banana republic” – or, it will have “successfully” made the transition to another regime, an form of autocratic capitalism in which the State will change the terms of the bribe, paying us with materialist distractions in exchange for our political rights and equality. I daily see signs of both prospects, and can’t clearly discern at the moment which will arise. Either way, our culmination is grim, for in either event we will cease in any real sense to be a Republic.

But, that happened long ago. We may never have been a Republic. We were always an Empire, and only became better at it over time. We were never truly self-governing. And, I sadly acknowledge at the end of an old year, the prospects for self-governance in this careening modern world have never been dimmer.

Happy New Year. There is no hope except in Jesus Christ.