#impoverishment

“Every President in modern history has avoided Congressional oversight while conducting bombing campaigns and military expeditions abroad,” his platform explains. “Congress is supposed to act as a check and balance on presidential war-making authority, but it has failed to live up to its responsibility year after year. We must immediately reduce the US military footprint abroad and invest in addressing the root causes of systemic violence across the world.”

Their stares are tame, almost fearful, and completely indifferent to the outside world. Some give the impresion that they go on living simply because it is a habit that they cannot shake.

Within the next few days he realized how alone he was. He did not blame anyone. He had merely got what he had asked for. His friends had become strangely dim and colorless. Not one of them had preserved his own outlook, his own world. they had been much more vivid in his memory. He must have overestimated them in the past. Under the old order, which enabled those whose lives were secure to play the fool and eccentrics at the expense of the others while the majority led a wretched existence, it had been only too easy to mistake the foolishness and idleness of a privileged minority for genuine character and originality. But the moment the lower classes had risen, and the privileges of those on top had been abolished, how quickly had those people faded, how unregretfully had they renounced independent ideas - apparently no one had ever had such ideas!

Summorum Pontificum a restoration after a gross impoverishment