’Idiocracy’ is upon us

’Idiocracy’ is upon us: For decades America functioned as a meritocracy, the land of opportunity with freedom of speech and limited government.  With the recent ascent of the radical left as a political force, these values have undergone erosion by DEI, identity politics, cancel culture, “newspeak”, and government bureaucratic intrusion.  The radical left challenges patriotism, religion, traditional family structure as our raison d’être, our identity.  The resulting divisiveness drives us into ideologic rabbit holes.  Tribalism pervades the culture.  We identify now as liberal or conservative with ideologic chips on our shoulders.  We have evolved into a partisan ideocracy.