Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. Because that's how politics and life work—it swings like a pendulum. From one extreme to the other. Sometimes it swings right, sometimes it swings left. When people have tolerated failure for long enough, they long for something different.

In a practice as old as time, blaming someone else is easier and more ego-gratifying than accepting blame yourself. When no one takes responsibility, everyone suffers.

When Kevin Durant plays his first game for the Phoenix Suns, he should don the number 48. It represents the antiwork, communist-sympathizing, Marxist mentality elite athletes have adopted.