Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“Some more thoughts from the Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville: 1.) This first statement is brilliant and perceptive beyond description. America, 2026: ‘When the taste for physical gratifications among [men] has grown more rapidly than their education … the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint.’ God said to Moses that when the Israelites ‘have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them.’ When the desire for physical gratification outruns our wisdom and moral education, then people will be ‘carried away and lose all self-restraint.’ … There is no doubt in my mind that the desire for physical pleasure in America today has far outpaced our wisdom and moral education, and the results are plainly manifest in the massive amounts of promiscuity, corruption, fraud, decadence, selfishness, and licentiousness that plague our nation.” (06/25/26)