The iron laws of arithmetic.

"Whether one believes in a large, very active government or something more limited, mathematically the amount of debt we already have and the terrifying rate at which it is accumulating will lead to national ruin," [former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels] said. "There is no other outcome arithmetically possible."^[1]

As Investor's Business Daily observes, misdirection of the debate into the tangles and briars of "the economy, the stock market, female contraception, [and] Rush Limbaugh" doesn't diminish our fiscal peril.

This head in the sand approach to a massive problem is what has passed for the "normal state of affairs" ever since the inception of the Great [sic] Society.

I ran across an observation recently (whose source I cannot recall) that what passes for "normal" today really is a psychotic state. This psychosis manifests itself in the areas of unrestricted immigration, legal discrimination against whites, pandering to the worst of black delusions about the cause of the extraordinary pathology of the black underclass, constitutional inversion, judicial law making, the pointless war on drugs, hostility to free speech, adulation of the homosexual "life style," and the refusal to recognize Muslim hostility to infidels and the fundamental, irreparable Muslim incompatibility with Western culture and modernity itself.

Not to mention the election of Barack Hussein Obama, an oddity whose constitutional disqualification for the office of president is clear and whose origins are, to say the least, unclear even now, thanks to a disgraceful media complicity. As I like to say, I know of pedigree cocker spaniels with more paper credentials than Mr. Obama. But millions of Americans fall at his feet. The new normal.

Lawrence Auster writes extensively on the fatal disease of liberalism that has long since infected the West and the almost certain necessity of having to ride it to the point of civilizational catastrophe before we can be freed of its psychotic grip.

What he said.

For the foreseeable future, we are wedded to dysfunction. Even at this late hour, Republican voters cluster around a moderate like Mitt Romney, yet another in the line of Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain would be and actual leaders who aspire to the highest office with no clue whatsoever about the destruction of the Republic of 1789 and the impending conversion of the United States into a third world glop.

Notes
^[1] "Washington Distracts Us As Fiscal Disaster Looms." Investor's Business Daily, 3/14/12.