Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Successful democracies endanger their success because of the complacency success breeds. They solve problems only when lashed by necessity: Britain considered Winston Churchill a Cassandra — until the German army reached the English Channel ports. In the 1960s, Americans realized they could not have domestic tranquility without new civil rights laws. Today’s crisis of the nation’s fiscal trajectory elicits a peculiar optimism: Necessity, in the form of the exhaustion of the Social Security trust fund, will lash Congress into reforming two entitlement programs (Social Security, Medicare) that are driving the nation’s indebtedness. This optimism is delusional.” (08/08/25)