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Biden Over Bork: The Big Decision 35 Years Ago
There was a confrontation in 1987 between Joe Biden and Robert Bork. Bork gave honest and straightforward answers to questions during his confirmation hearings. Whether a right to privacy existed or was intended in the Constitution was a big issue. Biden said there was and Bork said there was not. The right to privacy was a big part of the Roe v. Wade decision that brought the issue of abortion under federal purview. Robert Bork was also an advocate for interpreting the Constitution using only the original intent of the founders. The only way I can think of some of the votes when I look again at who cast them is that it puzzles me.
I think this failure to confirm Robert Bork in some ways opened the floodgates and has given us the culture and government we are living with today. We didn’t get Bork on the Supreme Court and we got Biden as President. And now we have had a Supreme Court rejection of Roe v. Wade.
Robert Bork later wrote Slouching Towards Gomorrah, in which he describes the cultural effects of the sixties revived in the eighties leading to a revival of the sixties cultural mentality in Bill and Hillary Clinton. If you have access to this book, there is an Introduction — in my version, it runs 13 pages — that gives a very good description of the cultural forces operating to divide us so completely in our politics today. He calls the Left’s posture Modern Liberalism and uses Radical Egalitarianism and Radical Individualism to describe what has displaced Equality and Liberty in our lexicon when discussing political issues.
I have lived through and experienced all of what he describes in the book.
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Veering off topic but after clicking on that, the trending sidebar gave me this, “Understanding this year’s election results, and when to expect them”. Not the night of the vote or the next morning at the latest? I suppose the answer is when Democrats manufacture enough to win. Look at them prepping the battlefield and setting expectations for the fraud.
I agree, now do the FBI, the Clintons and corporate media after 2016
Thank you for all the information. It is greatly disappointing that Maryland officials can “choose” to not examine DMV driver license applications in terms of the citizenship status of those who apply.
I have come to expect that behavior from Calif officials, but thought other places might be less corrupt.
Gary’s an amazing clairvoyant. Because of what Trump did on January 6, 2021, I must vote against him now on November 3, 2020.
All she needs to do is to take 10% of the Republican vote to sink Trump. A worthy goal.
I wouldn’t. I would respect Trump for that.
Huh? That doesn’t even make sense. How on earth could that happen?
And right now the opposite is happening. Liz Cheney has brought in enormous donations for Kari Lake’s campaign:
Not even a question. Their politics, principles, and loyalties are non-existent.
I believe the word he chooses is prescient.
Hummmmmm. Then why have I contributed to “Ready for Ron” which seeks to draft him to run for President?
Please, Flicker, check out their site, https://www.readyforron.com/, DeSantis’s ad “Top Gov”: