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While Biden's axe job on Robert Bork denied his fellow citizens one of the finest, wisest jurists ever to warm the bench, it did free Judge Bork to write the damning books "The Tempting of America" and "Slouching Towards Gomorrah" (both of which I have read) that outline modern liberalism and the American decline.

Of course, the creepage of the blot of liberalism into the Republican camp has ruined us all. What he said in summing up the gross slide and the needs to even slow it is as follows:

"If there are signs that we have become less concerned than we should be with virtue, there are also signs that many Americans are becoming restless under the tyrannies of egalitarianism and sick of the hedonistic individualism that has brought us to the suburbs of Gomorrah. But for the immediate future, what we probably face is an increasingly vulgar, violent, chaotic, and politicized culture. Our hopes, our stuggles, and our optimism must be for the long run. The first requisite is knowing what is happening to us. This book has tried to answer that, to show that decline runs across our entire culture, and that it has a common cause, modern liberalism.

The second step is resistance to radical individualism and radical egalitarianism in every area of culture. It is pointless to ask, "What is the solution?" There is no single grand strategy. Just as the New Left abandoned an overarching program and became a series of like-minded groups advancing area by area, so it must be attacked area by area. Religion must be recaptured church by church; and education university by university, school board by school board. Bureaucracies must be tamed. The judiciary must be criticized when it oversteps its legitimate authority, as it now regularly does. A few of the necessary actions must involve the government, as in capturing and punishing criminals, and, perhaps, in administering censorship of the vilest aspects of our popular culture; otherwise, government must be kept at a distance." (My bolded highlights to the text, not Bork's.)

My fellow FRiends and so-called "Christian" brothers, Donald J. Trump only continues to exacerbate the onslaught of mouthy, self-serving indecencies, lies, and personal conduct in a vulgar, violent, chaotic, and politicized manner that are condemning this nation to supernatural judgment, and that much sooner than most of us think. Trump has lived a life of liberalism, and his lie of pretending to subscribe to a few conservative goals are so phony that only fools can believe that, upon acceding to the executive office, he will not abandon his weak promises and merely go on as before.

Don't, don't be a fool!