A Warning from Thomas Sowell

One of my favorite authors and columnists, Thomas Sowell, has just written an unequivocal warning directed to the American voter. It's called "Painfully Inadequate, " and it is truly "as serious as a heart attack," and arguably more so.

Dr. Sowell begins thus:

Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober — if not grim — assessment of where we are.

Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When Election Day came that year, I could not bring myself to vote for either George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I stayed home.

By all means, read it through from start to finish, then please do everything within your power (short of holding them at gunpoint, anyway) to persuade others to read it, too.

Dr. Sowell has examined the situation, then concluded that our very existence is at stake. In my opinion, no plausible refutation of his arguments is possible. His warning is as prescient as were Winston Churchill's unsuccessful attempts to warn Great Britain about the Nazis during the 1930's. Can we learn from history, or are we doomed to repeat it?