CHICKEN LITTLE CONSERVATIVES

At least 5 days a week, conservative radio hosts try to sell the rubes the proposition that we are facing the worst times EVAH and all sorts of things, like Capitalism itself, are about to disappear. Today, I got an e-mail solicition from the right-wing mag Commentary and it uses the same approach:

The fate of the United States, the fate of Western civilization, and the fate of democracies great and small—especially the miraculous, vibrant, and besieged democracy called Israel—all hang in the balance.