Is America a nation at risk?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Oh, I've noticed that. But the ones that are stink up the whole operation and bring the very word "liberal" into disrepute -- first by their illiberal thinking, and then by the "you wanna fix what problem by doing what?" phenomenon -- those are the lunatics and the less-lunatic but bereft of wisdom.

Liberal was once an honorable condition. Regrettably, in our Republic it's gotten hijacked by the hard Left, and that's doing real damage. Nothing that can't be repaired, but we do need to discourage the Left from interfering.

There are some ideas that are so bad they can only be held by left-wing intellectuals.

Rightwingers manage to steer clear of such things. That's why I think the weight of the brainpower is over on the right, nearish to the center. The too-far-Right is both off the deep end and colliding with the Left coming around the other way.