The left and right have both become humanity-hating death cults. They themselves don’t put it that way, of course. One wants to destroy your life and happiness “for your own good” and the other for your soul or for what will make some Daddy (Big Sky/Trump/etc.) most pleased.

But neither wants what’s best for you or even for society. This is a sign of failed ideologies. It’s not their fault, in a way. They just have nothing superior to work with, nothing more applicable and no better way to form a world much-changed into a comprehensible configuration.

Some new ways of thinking are gestating, but will they be in time? Will it matter? That’s the test now.