Posted on 01/29/2014 10:12:00 AM PST by Dick Bachert
The late Judge Robert Bork wrote a controversial book in 1996 called “Slouching Toward Gomorrah” Modern Liberalism and American Decline” He was pilloried in the mainstream media for being a negative conservative alarmist.
That same year, former Reagan cabinet member, Dr. William Bennett published his “The Book of Virtues.” In it he attempted to call our attention to a process he termed the “coarsening of the culture.” He was likewise raked over the coals for attempting to point out what, in retrospect, anyone with half a brain would recognize as early attempts to prevent the slide that has brought us to this sad and lamentable place where we now find the former “shining city on a hill”.
Some of you older folks may recall that in 2003, Dr. Bennett admitted to having a gambling addiction during the period around the publication of his book. He was again publicly castigated for his transgression.
That would have also been around the same time when Bill Clinton was being fellated in the Oral – er – Oval Office by one of his young subordinates, one Miss Lewinsky. DNA testing of some – ahh – “spots” on one of Miss Lewinsky's dresses proved to be of Clintonian origin.
During Clinton's ensuing impeachment – which most of the media called various names synonymous with “frivolous” – he vehemently denied his transgression and does so even today. As much as they tried, the leftist media could not completely ignore a congressional impeachment proceeding. But they did all they could to downplay the seriousness and the impact of it on Clinton's presidency.
(It came out later that the Israelis had Osama bin Laden in their sights 3 different times and, preoccupied covering his "tracks" in l'affaire Lewinsky, Clinton declined to take action. One can only guess how his failure to act might have impacted the events of 9/11/2001! It's entirely possible that 9/11 might not have happened and over 3,000 Americans might not have perished that day!)
The difference? I don't recall that Dr. Bennett was ever accused of being fellated by subordinate females in his office but was set upon by the media for his admitted sin of gambling. Bill Clinton was given a pass by this same media, setting the stage for their worshipful, genuflecting “coverage” (covering up) of Obama and his ongoing criminal enterprise.
Forgive the foregoing digressions. I inserted them in an effort to head off the inevitable beat down and cries of hypocrisy coming this way from the leftists who might stumble across my rant.
Let me cut to the chase.
Nearly all the virtues we may have possessed in 1996 are now but a distant memory for a disturbing number of those around us. The most cursory trip into the internet will reveal them. You only need to read some of the stories coming out of the Obama administration: Benghazi, IRS harassment of opponents, generally Democrat vote buying and outright fraud, the failure to hold accountable those around him who are either incompetent or, as in the case of Obamacare, following his deceitful orders to create a base for the single-payer system he and they wanted all along. Of course, politicians of all stripes have lied for eons: Obama and his mendatious minions have honed it into an art form.
I refused to watch the so-called State of the Union fib fest but I do hope some of you kept a tally of the Chief Pontificator’s prevarications. I suspect the list consumed several large tablets. I could go on but space – and the TV induced 90 second attention span of the average American – is limited.
Which brings me to TV and a phenomenon to which Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan introduced in his book “The Medium is The Message.”
If the “coarsening of the culture” was moving along briskly in 1996, today it is hypersonic. We plop down to watch TV only to find Janet Jackson having a “wardrobe malfunction;” a nearly nude Miley Cyrus “twerking” with some guy in prison stripes and stroking herself in private places once reserved for the bedroom; the Grammy Awards so slanted to the left wing, liberal, libertine and gay agenda that at least one Christian performer left the building in protest. We're getting “the message” alright.
While earlier American presidents have come close, we're heading straight into uncharted waters. But other nations have led the way: Greece, Rome, The Wiemar Republic era in Germany, Sodom and, of course, Gomorrah. I'm afraid I have no choice but to end this with some really bad news: We're no longer slouching toward Gomorrah. We have ARRIVED!
PS: File this under “Preaching to the Choir – Again”
Who could dispute every word you said ?At the next Grammys how will they top the weddings?Use your imagination and think of a surgical procedure.....you say no way?Yeah,ten years ago I would have said no way to the weddings.
You will not be flamed for one simple reason.
The trolls don’t know where GOMORRAH is
Obama and Kerry promote homosexuality here and abroad and praise the virtues of abortion.
Would JFK call these annals of courage or models of deprativy?
Obama and Kerry promote homosexuality here and abroad and praise the virtues of abortion.
Would JFK call these annals of courage or models of depravity?
Showing the consummations of the "weddings" onstage? What seems impossible now will be tomorrow's reality.
They know it as the Grammy's and the Tournament of Roses.
but I'm not any of those things....I am fully immersed in our culture because I work almost constantly with people from our cultures underbelly...the drugged, the doped, the drunk, and the promiscuous, and the gay, and those gays are not the nice, clean rich type gays you always see on the tv....these are the people that have become floor mats of other human beings....
my attitude is that I am right in my values and my beliefs and I don't care what the mainstream believes....
we're on our own....somehow, we need to find each other....
Well stated and true. We are literally witnessing the collapse of what we once called America. It is past the point of no return in my humble opinion. No election will restore our beloved America. We are literally like the US in 1860. And sadly, I am afraid that a very terrible bloodletting is in our near future...not years away...months away.
No flaming from me. America finally reached the tipping point. Between the sheer depravity of the embrace of homo marriage and the embrace of dope, it was like the dam finally burst.
In straight-forward truth, it’s become all but impossible for me to view the country as even worth trying to salvage anymore. America is no longer America. It has given itself over to darkness.
Live sex show? Why stop at faking it by twerking?
I'm only half joking.
TS Eliot says it well in “Hollow Men”
III
This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man’s hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star
I’m afraid that God is getting more and more fed up. It’s getting scary! He may well be getting ready to slam us.
Hah, Antelope freeway North, Gomorrah Expressway South.
36 holes underground parking if you lived here you’s
be homw now. Hmmmmmm, Temperature and Climate control...
Tibetin Wilderness...no...Land of the Pharohs....
If those who lived in Sodom and Gomorrah could see us now, they would be astounded and horrified.
They would also cringe in terror knowing what is going to happen to us as they remember the horror that befell them.
Well, the collapse has to happen so we can pick ourselves up again. Rock bottom and then back up. The old America isn’t coming back and realistically, the old America set the stage for this mess we’re in now.
This is what happens when a nation turns away from God; the progressive turning for the last 40 years is at a point of no return I’m afraid.
Amen!
I believe He has already slammed us. His name is Obama!
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