I like the quote by French philosopher Francois Ravel in the clip below from today's Wall Street Journal:
United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, then a lifelong Democrat, electrified the 1984 Republican National Convention when she excoriated the recently completed Democratic Convention as a meeting of the "Blame America First" crowd. Kirkpatrick explained the danger by quoting the French philosopher Jean-François Revel: "A civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."
Blame America First Democrats were briefly sidelined by Bill Clinton's presidency, but the mob is back, angrier and more negative about their own country than ever. Consider observations by some of the party's 2020 hopefuls during the progressive Netroots Nation conference in New Orleans earlier this month.
