Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 2:39 PM by Gene

We regretted to discover someone writing under that tiresome nom de plume Lexington inspired himself into a self-administered gas attack on the subject of America's "greatness". The most gaseous outburst was this:

America still towers over rivals in scientific virtuosity, military power, the vitality of democracy and much else.

Aside from our not taking too much comfort from a rag published in a dead empire and read by a lot of high mucky-mucks who'd call themselves "internationalists", this line irks us because the first two things are largely technocratic and the third probably has a lot to do with people like THE GOLD BUG who inhabit its grafs, and we'd hardly call dueling screaming cable heads combined with Congress's high popularity democratic. We'd like the hack hiding under the pseudonym to tell us that culturally or educationally we've never been better. Talk of America's financial inequality rivaling Zimbabwe's may not do much good for the soul either. Thankfully the hack gets this much right:

America is indeed a great and exceptional country. But it isn’t talking about it that makes it so.

And the less we talk about it, whether we be bloviating hacks or zillionaire table pounders, the better.