In 1919, in the confused and disillusioned world immediately following the First World War, the poet W. B. Yeats wrote a poem (“The Second Coming”), in which he offered a vision of that world. It was a vision that foresaw the chaos that would envelop Europe, indeed, the entire world, with the rise of anarchy and the worst kind of "passionate intensity" that would soon manifest itself in national and international socialism; i.e., in fascism and communism. He saw a world awaiting the Second Coming…a few verses:
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The poem ends with these two lines…
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
In 1996, borrowing and modifying this thought from Yeats, Judge Robert H. Bork wrote a book entitled, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, in which he addressed the appearance of a new kind of leftism in the 1960s, a leftism he believed would wreak havoc on our nation and on civil society throughout the world. He accurately predicted it would plague us with several generations of leftist intellectuals who would do all in their power to destroy Western Civilization. His prediction has, of course, been fulfilled. One need only look at the entirety of our educational establishment, from kindergarten through graduate school, and the products of their indoctrination, men and women who now populate all levels of government as well as our corporate board rooms.
Because these new leftists are strident to the point of violence, and viciously attack anyone who disagrees with their evolving, amoral, and totalitarian ideas, politicians too fall under their evil spell. One of these ideas, a cultural, moral, and religious issue with which the left maintains near unanimous agreement, is abortion. And among the many politicians who have succumbed to their attacks is our current president. Joe Biden, from the time he first entered the senate — coincidentally, he was seated in January 1973, the same month the U.S. Supreme Court issued it’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion — until 1987, could boast a largely pro-life voting record. The first sign of real change occurred when he became chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and, along with Ted Kennedy, led the attack on Supreme Court nominee Judge Bork. Senator Biden later said:
“That’s why I led the fight against Judge Bork. Had he been on the court, I suspect there would be lots of changes that I don’t like and the American people wouldn’t like, including everything from Roe v. Wade to issues relating to civil rights and civil liberties.”
During the 90s and the early years of this century, his positions began to waffle. Although he voted several times against partial birth abortion, his views had apparently softened. And in 2007, a new Joe Biden openly appeared, when he chastised the Supreme Court for its “paternalistic” attitude exemplified when it upheld the ban on partial birth abortion. From that moment to the present, he has been among the most avid pro-abortion politicians at the national level. From openly pro-life to a view that supports abortion “under any circumstance,” Joe Biden has displayed his disregard for human life, all for the sake of political gain. Joe, too, has slouched along on a death march, leaving behind him a long trail of bodies, more than 66,000,000 innocent little ones.
Pray for our president, and for our nation.
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