Greetings. It's Monday, September the 25th, 2023, and this is the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

A reporter for the New York Post attempted to gain interest to some of New York City's finest restaurants

while wearing shorts and a hoodie, only to be turned away at the door by each establishment.

The reason for his experiment, he was wearing attire that Pennsylvania Democrat Senator John Federman

has made famous or infamous in our nation's capital.

The senator's preferred clothing generated national headlines a few days ago when Senate

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he was relaxing the Senate's long-standing

requirement that its members wear a suit on the floor. The backlash was immediate and bipartisan.

Senator Federman then replied to the furor in a crude statement, agreeing to, quote-unquote,

save democracy by wearing a suit on the Senate floor if House Republicans pass a government

funding bill and support Ukraine. New York Times columnist

Rhonda Gerlich noted that, quote, dress codes are a marker of social, national, professional,

or philosophical commonality. Accordingly, a dress code for the Senate does remind senators and

everyone around them, including the general public, of the still noble goal of

consensus, a sum greater than its parts. In quote. And Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan

perceptively identified a larger cultural narrative at work. Americans want to be respected, but no longer

think we need to be respectable. In her view,

we are in a crisis of political comportment. We are witnessing the rise of the classless. Our politicians

are becoming degenerate. This has been happening for a while, but gets worse as the country

coursons. We are defining deviancy ever downward."

In quote.

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