DC isn't Firenze

For John, BLUF:  The author tells us that our Nation's Capitol is filled with people of vulgar tastes, and not much else.  No artistic talent for sure.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Machiavelli Looks at the Goings-On in the US House

From Pajama Media,by Writer Roger L Simon, 6 March 2019.

Here is the lede plus three:

When you leave the country even on a short trip -- I am in Europe for ten days -- you get to look back at the USA with a bit of perspective, not so much as a foreigner but as a citizen with a little distance from the fray.

Walking around a not yet tourist-infested Florence in the shadow of Dante, Machiavelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo, giants of human civilization, you're struck by how little of interest or merit is going on now on both sides of the Atlantic — how small we have become, trivial actually.

We're a bunch of bores, really. Civilization is not at its height.  And that's not because we're living "Love in the Time of Cholera."  We don't even have the excuse of an epidemic, let alone war.  We're living "Envy in the Time of Tedious Petty Outrage."  John Brennan and Adam Schiff are symbols of our time, not Botticelli or Lorenzo de Medici.

Of course there was plenty of that good old-fashioned envy and backstabbing back in the Renaissance.  It's well documented.  But it's all we've got.  They had a lot more — a whole lot.

Not that I want to live in those days (flush toilets and jet travel), but there was talent around and not just a bunch of folks who couldn't move on.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff