Always get a second opinion

I've been going on a bit lately about how the modern progressive welfare state is collapsing, and how the government sovereign debt crisis is going to take down the most progressive states first, and how the Intellectual Left has been so hollowed out by their ideology that they no longer know how to think (and so won't be up to the task of figuring out how to prop up their progressive vision). How the Dinosaurs, sniffing change on the wind, roar their defiance.

Seems I'm not alone. Eric Raymond comments on why he hasn't discussed Helen Thomas' anti-Semitic outburst:

I’m less motivated to blog about politics than I used to be. Bismarckian-style intrusive statism is now collapsing around our ears, so pushing it into its grave doesn’t seem as important as it used to. Everything people like Helen Thomas relied on as eternal verities is going to be swept away by the oncoming sovereign-debt collapse; they won’t be able to cope, at all, on any level. The meteor reached atmosphere when Social Security went insolvent; dinosaurs like her will feel the shock wave soon enough. So why pile on?

I'll take that sort of confirmation any day.