Chronic Illness

An Andrew Sullivan reader writes:

The country has had a "reeling vacancy" in the Oval Office since 2001. All of the failures, the poor choices, the misguided appointments, lack of foresight and diplomatic grace etc. have been there for years. Put another way, he is not reeling now just because he has been caught at being wrong in so many ways on Iraq, North Korea, the deficit, torture, cronyism, et al. He is reeling now because he has always been reeling.

There is a distinction physicians make between an acute illness and the acute diagnosis of a chronic illness. We as a nation are dealing with the latter."

"Do not be deceived, ... whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." (Gal 6:7)