Purity of insight, unobscured by ideology.

Dystopia creating Utopians are, unfailingly, thoroughly self-deluded beings who exist in morbid states of idolatrous identification with their psychotically highly idealized self concepts. Esteeming themselves to be immeasurably worthier than they are, they can reliably be relied upon ever to have a better idea.

They whose temperaments are being tempered by virtue do not aspire to possess power, or to exercise authority over their fellows.

The truly virtuous ones among us are entirely content to responsibly administer their own affairs, apart from their nurturing the illusive notion that they are, necessarily, ideally well equipped to rightly govern the affairs of others.

Pride is, without question, the most flagrant of human frailties.

From it derives every other identifiable frailty.

Corrosive it is, in that it exists to conceal a multitude of sins.

Fear is the salient word.

They whose notions of reality are not rightly rooted in reality will be viscerally averse, necessarily, to anyone who may be an instrument of the revelation of it.

The spirit of illiberality such as is being exhibited, most glaringly, on contemporary university campuses, which particularly expresses itself in utter intolerance of unfettered freedom of speech, is little more than a latter day rendering of Pharisaism.

Thank you, Mike, for your insightful, scholarly, commentary.

Perhaps, the questions to be posed are:

What is the nature of virtue?

How does the presence of virtue animate the ability of those in whom it inheres to act in a manner that is in accord with the requirements of the law, apart from their being constrained by the fear of their prospectively becoming subject to its sanctions?

From the Christian perspective, grace is virtue, the very substance of the Creator, the availability and presence of which enable the believer to surmount his or her accountability to the law and subjectivity to its sanctions.

As Paul expressed it:

" For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is a gift of God: Not of works (endeavoring to keep the Law, in the absence of the ennobling presence of grace/virtue ), lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2: 8-9

As the Apostle Paul expressed it:

"The keeping of the whole law is briefly comprehended in this saying: Thou shalt love thy neighbor, as thyself."

The presence or absence of virtue makes the defining difference.

Virtue supercedes the law.

A right which only ideology bound absolutists would presume to endeavor to abridge.

The intent of the heart is mightier than either the pen or the sword.

Knowledge, decoupled from, uninformed by understanding, necessarily is incomplete.

In the absence of the constraining influence of immutable coordinating principles, ultimately, of understanding, knowledge is the most noxious of commodities.

In the absence of Redemption, the root of all good is the humanity exhibited by those in whom virtue resides, if vestigially, practical expressions of the presence of
which render this life sufferable, generally.

From great nations, great leaders issue. Ultimately, the greatness of any nation is rooted in the morality of its people.

As de Tocqueville expressed it:
" America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

The hubris and attendant obtusity of this nation's current generation of supposed "leaders" is Biblical in character. Lightless, without vision, without insight, without humility. Truly are they, "blind leaders of the blind."

The most virulently racist among us are they who are most vehement, most ostentatious, in their denunciations of others whom they presume to categorize as being " racists."

In this day, the accusation of racism is the unfailing refuge of scoundrels.

From great nations, great leaders emerge.

The most certain measure of the greatness of any nation is the noble character of their leadership.

By that faithful measure the once noble, once glorious, American Republic decades ago ceased to be a truly great nation.

Political leadership in this nation has attained its historic nadir with the mockery, farce-travesty, of an American presidency that is the Obama regime.

The Desolator, Apostle of Lawlessness, Cultivator of Dependency in Chief, isa nightmarishly mendacious, manipulative, instrument of the advancement of the agenda(s) for what may well be the most
nihilistic interests the world has ever known.

Without question is he the the ordained effector of the completion of the process of the dissolution of the USA.

The ludicrously insincere, pragmatic to the point of being sociopathic, William J. (Ahab) Clinton and Hilary(Jezebel) Clinton, perfect personifications of Mercedes Marxists of whom they are, necessarily are nurturing psychotically spurious Divine Right of Kings notions of themselves.

As boundless as their hubris is, they cannot but hold in utmost, inviolable, contempt the "ordinary man" whom they historically, utterly unauthentically, have purported to represent.

The Founders exemplified a profound understanding of the manifold frailties that inhere in human character, foremost among which, along with its unfailingly present concomitant pride, a will to possess and consolidate power.

Well did they apprehend that there exist few who are constitutionally, temperamentally, capable of exercising power, of wielding authority, with requisite discretion.

They who want for moral stature and attendant character, necessarily, are incapable of doing so.