We are in an excruciating situation that will kill us slowly and terribly unless a miracle happens.
Because, as the bootlicking Ayn Rand wrote, the Attilas (genocidal fanatics) will always defeat the liberal intellectuals because the Attilas have a simple magnetic message- "We must destroy all who do not join us or who are not like us"! Whereas, the intellectual's message is long, complicated, full of small print, and a doomed convoluted attempt to satisfy everybody.
