To Save America, Reason Must Reign Again
Modern America lacks two fundamental necessities for a free and thriving nation: true compassion and reason. Today I am going to focus on the latter, in light of Robert Reilly’s observation, “The primacy of reason...is the prerequisite for democracy.”
It ought to be quite obvious to all normal Americans by now that the left has embraced an extreme of irrationality. The Democrat party has always maintained rationally contradictory views throughout its existence (for instance slavery and freedom, racism and equality, free speech and violent persecution of the opposition). In our times, however, the radical left has reached a new level of outright insanity—yes, insanity, for leftism has become a mental disease. That is how Democrats claim to champion democracy while stealing elections, or assert love and tolerance while locking up and abusing peaceful protesters against their policies.
But irrationality is a standard feature of Americans of all political stripes now. Most citizens and residents in the United States maintain totally contradictory and or irrational opinions in at least one area of their lives. Our movies, our music, our politics, our education, and even our religious leaders, all stimulate and encourage our lowest passions, either ignoring or ridiculing reason. That is terribly dangerous because it is the sign of a decaying civilization. And, just as Ven. Fulton Sheen once warned, most Americans seem to be totally unaware of the danger. It is not coincidence that the Gospel refers to God as Logos (Reason), and in our current irrational age we are falling further and further from God.