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Is It Too Late?
PJ Media ^ | 22 Feb 2024 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 02/22/2024 2:49:01 PM PST by Rummyfan

"Liberalism moves, therefore, toward radical individualism and the corruption of standards that movement entails. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified... Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negation: the artificial, mechanized or brutalized control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos."

Those near-prophetic words were written nearly three decades ago by the late great Robert Bork in his landmark book, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah."

He was right about everything.

And he would know. His name became a verb after then-Senator Joe Biden and his buddy Sen. Ted Kennedy made the conscious decision to politicize the judiciary to block Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court. Biden and Kennedy made a farce of the hearings, falsely accusing Bork of everything from wanting to ban birth control to wanting to force blacks to sit at separate lunch tables. Judicial hearings have never recovered from Biden's abuse of power and evil machinations — which have only gotten worse as he's gained more power.

Now, 27 years after the publication of Bork's book, we're being led by "the most foolish" (and demented) people in our nation. Public education has become a bastion of indoctrination, and Americans increasingly eschew wisdom in favor of the most clever TikTok video. Our political system seems to be irreparably broken, and the administrative state seeks to control every aspect of our lives — in many cases, the "brutalized control" Bork predicted.

The 2020s will be remembered as the decade where lawfare became the foremost political tactic of the Left, thwarting candidates by tying them up in legal troubles...

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1 posted on 02/22/2024 2:49:01 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Yes it is too late.

The Left has captured every institution in the West.

There is no reform possible.

Only a rebuilding after the Regime collapse.


2 posted on 02/22/2024 2:57:59 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Rummyfan

In 9 MONTHS it might be over, but then again, it’s still possible that Trump will win (despite the best efforts of the trolls here telling you not to vote).


3 posted on 02/22/2024 2:58:50 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Rummyfan

Probably.
What would Jesus do? Or rather, what would He have me do?
Because …..


4 posted on 02/22/2024 3:00:41 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: BobL

He is still only 1 guy.

The DC establishment isn’t just gonna roll over and concede everything SHOULD the Donald actually beat the steal this time.

They’ll double down - again.


5 posted on 02/22/2024 3:02:20 PM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: Rummyfan

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6 posted on 02/22/2024 3:08:48 PM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: Reverend Wright
Tytler’s Cycle of Democracy
7 posted on 02/22/2024 3:09:09 PM PST by bella1 (Tytler's Cycle of Democracy)
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To: joethedrummer

The way I see Trump in victory, is that he gives us four years of breathing room to better prepare and arrange your life. It’s like a patrol running for its life in the jungle, and one man plants himself with a machine gun and holds the enemy at bay while others escape. Trump is a hero… I hold no illusions he can change America, but he is a true man for his efforts.


8 posted on 02/22/2024 3:13:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (16 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: Rummyfan
Back in the late 1960s, when the hippies/YIPPIES/SDS/et al were getting moronic young/youngish people brainwashed, it was blatantly obvious where this was going to lead and it has!

What their parents and grandparents had been unable to do, the "leaders", all but one, were RED DIAPER BABIES, most were over 30 but told their brain dead followers to :"NEVER TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY!" and many fell into that trap!

Sadly, the parents of these idiot children never fought back, so when those teens and young adults, once they had their own children, turned a blind eye to what was going on and then, what followed. So here we are.

9 posted on 02/22/2024 3:14:33 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Rummyfan

Our elections are now what the left say they are and WE let that happen. Is it to late to change? Maybe so but I Pray God it isn’t!


10 posted on 02/22/2024 3:24:15 PM PST by teletech (you)
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To: Reverend Wright

My understanding of Bible eschatology is that globalized socialism is just before the coming of the Christ. I think this is where we are at.


11 posted on 02/22/2024 3:30:39 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: joethedrummer

“The DC establishment isn’t just gonna roll over and concede everything SHOULD the Donald actually beat the steal this time. They’ll double down - again.”

Yep, but at least he knows what he’s up against this time. Last time he was like 99% of Republicans, thinking that perhaps “A New Tone” will turn the Democrats into humans.

He’s learned.


12 posted on 02/22/2024 3:34:47 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: joethedrummer

That’s the problem...It will be just one term...We really have to have someone like Trump follow him...


13 posted on 02/22/2024 3:38:09 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: teletech

What have we done over the past four years to protect this?


14 posted on 02/22/2024 3:44:05 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Rummyfan

Yes, it is too late.


15 posted on 02/22/2024 3:48:35 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Vermont Lt

I don’t advocate deliberately throwing elections, or not voting. But the focus on elections and election “wins” is part of the problem.

Conservatives in every Western country have won plenty of elections in the last 50 year, including some huge Presidential wins.

Meanwhile, the Left systematically captured every institution. And here we are.


16 posted on 02/22/2024 3:57:24 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Rummyfan

bfl


17 posted on 02/22/2024 3:58:32 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Rummyfan

We’re already in Post-Constitutional America.


18 posted on 02/22/2024 3:59:33 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DesertRhino

By now, Trump is nothing more than a protest vote.


19 posted on 02/22/2024 4:00:00 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Reverend Wright
Only a rebuilding after the Regime collapse.

Regime collapse won't happen. They won't allow it. And we refuse to do that which is necessary: stop consenting. See tagline. We'll come to accept our peaceful marxism, whether we like it or not won't matter.

20 posted on 02/22/2024 4:09:32 PM PST by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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