Recently I got an email from a friend of mine who lives and breathes politics. History, too, as a matter of fact. Guy’s well read, about my age. To say that the current state of America is driving him crazy would be an understatement. Here’s part of his email, the opening part, which quotes one of the greatest and wittiest of all-time American newspaper columnists, H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956): 'All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is ...