An esteemed correspondent refers to Stefan Imhoff’s gloss on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”.
Kipling’s poem conveys a message that I have delivered in some of my posts: Great prosperity breeds ideas that wouldn't stand the acid test in simpler, poorer times when mistakes meant death. Common sense will return to the political scene only when the mistakes afforded by great prosperity have put an end to it.