Americans are idiots

In a wonderful piece over at Catholic Online, Andrew Greenwell unpacks the nasty truth that America is quickly becoming a nation of idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.  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.  Being a lawyer, Greenwell works more from a SCOTUS perceptive, reflecting on justice Kennedy's rather infamous view that "at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's concept of existence, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."  In other words, nothing is real, and nothing to get hung about; I just believe in me, Yoko and Me, that's reality.  Yep.  That's more or less what our country has been lurching toward for 50 years, and now we're seeing the fruits. Read the article, it's good.  We Americans aren't idiots, as Bill Maher suggests, because we don't fall in line with secular liberal dogmas, and the right to abort and euthanize whatever stands in the way of better orgasms.  We are idiots because it's what we want to be, and what we've chosen to become: a nation focused on ME, and nothing else, including the Almighty.