The Whirlwind Is Already Here

Judge Kavanaugh was understating the problem.

Scott S. Powell October 5, 2018

In Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s defense before the Senate Judiciary Committee to refute the unsubstantiated allegations by Christine Blasey Ford regarding an alleged sexual assault 36 years ago, he charged the Democratic senators on the committee with sowing “the wind for decades to come…[and]…the whole country will reap the whirlwind.”

The whirlwind is already here.............For about the last two and a half generations there has been a subtle but growing assault on most of the values that were previously the bedrock of American society. Many older Americans hardly recognize the country of their childhood. While technological progress has proceeded at a rapid pace providing convenience, efficiency, and higher standards of material living, the foundational institutions of American society—the family, educational institutions, manners and civility, respect for law and order, and merit-based outcomes have been in concurrent decline..............Antonio Gramsci was a leading 20^th century Marxist theoretician who argued that communists’ route to taking power in developed, industrialized societies such as the United States would be best achieved through a “long march through the institutions.”

This would be a gradual process of radicalization of the cultural institutions — “the superstructure” ........... Cultural Marxism was also advanced by intellectuals from the “Frankfurt School,”............the long march through the institutions” meant, in the words of Herbert Marcuse, “working against the established institutions while working in them.”........To Read More....