VDH: Epitaph for a Dying Culture

I believe I must have a weakness for elegies, like the one at American Greatness Victor Davis Hanson writes for our dying culture. You should read the whole depressing thing, but here is a particularly choice excerpt:

Multibillionaire George Soros might be a wanted felon in France or have attempted to break the Bank of England and thereby ruin small depositors. But his wealth is welcomed because he invests a small percentage of it in progressive causes and thereby purchases his own progressive insurance and protection. As did the Catholic Church in the Dark Ages of yore, the Progressive Church now sells indulgences.

VDH echoes Martin Luther. Today's Catholic Church merely provides lifetime employment for pederasts and pedophiles, a non-offense in the eyes of progressives.

You have to hope we can generate a new 'protestantism' in reaction to the cultural evils VDH enumerates. He isn't optimistic, nor am I.