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In a wonderful piece over at Catholic Online, Andrew Greenwell unpacks the nasty truth that America is quickly becoming a nation of idiots<\/a>, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.\u00a0 We are doing so, as I have said for years, because we posses no common values, no common good, no common decency, and no common sense.\u00a0 Being a lawyer, Greenwell works more from a SCOTUS perceptive, reflecting on justice Kennedy\u2019s rather infamous view that \u201cat the heart of liberty is the right to define one\u2019s concept of existence, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about; I just believe in me, Yoko and Me, that\u2019s reality.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 That\u2019s more or less what our country has been lurching toward for 50 years, and now we\u2019re seeing the fruits. Read the article, it\u2019s good.\u00a0 We Americans aren\u2019t idiots, as Bill Maher suggests, because we don\u2019t fall in line with secular liberal dogmas, and the right to abort and euthanize whatever stands in the way of better orgasms.\u00a0 We are idiots because it\u2019s what we want to be, and what we\u2019ve chosen to become: a nation focused on ME, and nothing else, including the Almighty.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"