https://freerepublic.com/tag/debasenent/ en-us Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:28:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3764953/posts We Americans are currently in a civilizational state historians William Strauss and Neil Howe would call the "Third Turning": an unraveling. The so-called Left is making it happen, too, with conservatives enabling it by conserving yesterday's liberalism and being those nice guys who finish last. In Marxist circles, this stage would be called "destabilization" — the second of a four-part process to subvert a society and seize control. The first, third, and fourth stages are, respectively, "demoralization," "crisis," and "normalization." The demoralization stage, which essentially is the undermining of a target nation's morality (the process of radically changing the population's... American Thinker https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3764953/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:28:33 GMT