In light of my recent lengthy posting
on Coleman’s surrender of Catholic credentials, this short excerpt from a
likewise short article
will suffice as a final epitaph to my series.
This should tell us something about our politicians, but it should also
tell us much about ourselves and what we have to come to demand of our
so-called leaders. We have, in a very real sense, created a special breed of
hypocrite. We have systemically excluded the possibility of any real leader
winning an office, because a real leader could never transform himself into the
representative “prism” of pretence and hypocrisy that the office now requires.
The result? In the words of C.S. Lewis: “We make men without chests and
expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to
find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
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