Because we'd rather feel good about how much we care than embrace immutable principles

Lately, meaningful blogging has been a challenge due to the great minds I admire saying what I would say about the various hair-raising developments coming hour way seemingly hourly now.

So it is with Thomas Sowell's column today.  The subject is the Bergdahl-for-top-jihadists swap, but he makes a larger point that I'm tempted to quote in every available venue:

We may yet become the first nation to die from a terminal case of frivolity. Other great nations in history have been threatened by barbarians at the gates. We may be the first to be threatened by self-indulgent silliness inside the gates.

He warns that, just as we elected and re-elected the Most Equal Comrade because we wanted to congratulate ourselves on how caring we are about "diversity," we look to be similarly demographically motivated when the H-Word Creature steps up for her coronation.

By the way, Sowell ends with the point I often make here:  The MEC is not a failure on his own terms. He told us he was going to fundamentally transform America, and that's exactly what he's done.