General feeling of malaise

On all fronts, it seems like virtue is losing to vice.

Take that last post, in my opinion, if our society didn't break down in 1968, we would have developed molten salt reactors.  History would have taken a radically different turn.  Instead of being placed over the oil barrel, we could be enjoying almost perfectly clean energy source, and enjoying even further the benefits of nuclear energy, such as fighting cancer.  The vice is ignorance, which is fed by negligence.  If people did their due diligence, they'd know these things.

Another example is the reaction to Ukraine.  Those on the so-called right have the better arguments, but they ruin it with their dumb notions about going into Ukraine to help them there.  This is none of our business.  Do these people want to fight World War III?  Are they nuts?  So, their war-mongering gets them suspicions they deserve from the electorate, and locks them out of their better arguments on limited government.  What we may end up with is a totalitarian leftist government, because there won't be anyone with the political strength to stop them.  What's the vice here with Ukraine? Insanity?

But, I am barely scratching the surface with what's going wrong with the GOP.   A bad mood is no way to enter the primary season.  But these idiots can screw up a wet dream.

They claim that Obama is incompetent, but that is exceeded by their own.  These guys make Obama look brilliant.  Instead of talking about the economy, we are talking about Ukraine, which has nothing to do with us.

Vice wins because virtue is absent.  Maybe Barnhardt is right after all.