The Decline of The West

When these debasements that the cultural left champions become mainstream, the society is weakened through moral decay.

This is an opinion that goes back to Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and well beyond that, such as during the corruption of youth trial of Socrates. It could alternatively be argued that it is those cultures that do not embrace ideas with sufficient vigor-- that are insular and conservative-- that are destined to struggle or fade. (A good example is the American Indians and a modern example is the difference in quality of life between South Korea and North Korea.) I'm more persuaded by Toynbee's "creative minorities" argument than Spengler decline of the west pessimisim.

Given the debasement of premise agument, what then? If someone's response is to write books and start ministries, I would say good for them. But if their desire is to take control of public education and legislative policy, are they not embracing that premise that liberals embrace: that social uplift can by obtained through legislation and education?