Caleb Stegall: Populism now

Kansas farmer and lawyer argues that this nation of alienated citizens should reclaim its destiny from power elites

When the oldest sources of order – which are at root religious – are abandoned along with their traditions and taboos, the resulting void of meaning is by necessity filled with some ideology promising one form or another of perfect happiness in the here and now. And these systems of self-salvation creep not toward liberation, but toward total control.

 

This is why I shouldn't read Rod Dreher's blog at bedtime.  I'll be up for hours chewing on this interesting article he linked to.