Tim Daneliuk wrote:

The cultural battle is to
prevent the US - a nation that in only 300 short years made more good
things happen for more people *all over the world* - from descending
into the intellectual and moral middenheap that characterizes much of
the rest of the so-called West.

Hmmmm - that sounds suspiciously like "everyone is out of step but me" and
somewhat reinforces the "theocracy" caution.

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It's turtles, all the way down