This is so full of win

This is a comment from an already excellent Samizdata article.  I pulled the following paragraph.  RTWT.

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Now we in the west, having built a civilization that has fulfilled some of the biblical dreams of our ancestors thousands of years in the distant past, creating a land flowing with milk and honey, that has explored the earth to the bottom of the deepest oceans, and walked on another world, is being led to the edge of the same chasm by an ignorant, arrogant, and incompetent elite whose relentless march toward catastrophe is endlessly excused by the smug claim that it’s not the power they have that’s the problem, but the power that still eludes their grasp.
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 Screw the Pledge.  It's stuff like this that should be memorized and recited every morning by gradeschoolers instead.  Also everything TheSmallestMinority has at the top of his blog.