[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This work suggests the Progressives are looking to build some kind of International Noah's Ark before their radical Islamic allies help them carry out the bloodshed.'

This is another example of why I believe that the decay has reached the point that a reestablishment of our political order may not be possible. It may be that we are only in the position of Hari Seldon, in Azimov's Foundation stories, unable to restore what has been lost, but able to affect history so that the Dark Night will be shorter than it otherwise would be. In other words, to weaken or destroy the enemy that would be most able to establish an evil future, so that after we are gone, our posterity would get a chance to re-establish decent government.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

LCS I've read all five of Asimov's books, and understand his drift well. All politics carries momentum, and any changes must be instituted at an early enough time to affect a change downstream. It's a scientist's view of social engineering, not a God fearers nor an engineer's. He avoided any supernatural being until the later two novels (a Gaia planet!) and, if you buy into what he was pitching, I now understand your funk.

I lost respect for Asimov when he joined with the rest of the establishment cabal who tried mightily to velify Einstein's friend Velikovsky. Basically in that charade, by disingenuosly rewriting some key Velikovskian chemistry, he helped deliver the standard Progressive warning to bright young candidates to whom they give but one warning: "You shouldn't have said that!" And since that eye-opening experience, I have reevaluated Asimov's great novels with a new view. I recommend the same to you. You, unlike Asimov, believe in God.