Yep, people love the simple answers doctrines and decrees provide. If you can squeeze it into a meme, that is even better. Facebook is a minefield of them you have to carefully make your way through every day. Shades of gray makes folks nervous and invites thinking as an individual, and that ain't gonna cut it these days.

The U.S. Constitution was designed to be a bulwark against this mindset, but I fear its time may have passed. The petri dish is full and overflowing, a victim of its own success. The dichotomy between the Left vs. Right is disappearing fast in the rearview mirror as technology changes the political landscape more effectively than any purely human movement. Adam Smith and Karl Marx got left at the bus stop quite awhile back and both sound pretty archaic lately. Left/Right Politics these days is more of a fashion statement, a topic of ersatz debate, and virtue signaling.

On a side note, this quote was from A. Bartlett Giamatti, a well respected academic and president of Yale, but was better known as the Commissioner of Major League Baseball during the Pete Rose scandal. Giamatti never made it through a whole season and died of a heart attack at 51 five months into his tenure. I knew I had heard that name somewhere before....