By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

The demise of America is proceeding without any serious resistance. Evangelical atheism is rampant. America’s most cherished values are being undermined by the university-bred doctrine of moral relativism, which denies any and all moral truths. College students have succumbed to the mindless adage “I’m okay, you’re okay.”

This nihilism is occurring in the midst of a war Islam is swaging against us while our golf-playing President, Barack Hussein Obama, intones the words “We are not at war with Islam,” as if 9/11never happened, and as if former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad never gleefully said “Death to America!”  Let’s sober up.

It’s well known that Muslims – never mind futile and misleading adjectives – are murdering and maiming Jews and Christians in several continents. To all but fools, this is a world war. The truth is that the “religion of peace” has been waging a punctuated war against the non-Muslims world since the advent of Mohammad in the seventh century.

If proof is wanted, the Center for the Study of Political Islam reported in its February 21, 2007 issue of FrontPageMagazine, that Muslims have slaughtered approximately 270 million people since Muhammad’s ascendancy.

And now there’s the Muslim Brotherhood and myriads of mosques in America and Europe, spewing hatred of Western Civilization. Their Imams have declared war against all “infidels” in the name of Islam’s deity, Allah.

Nevertheless, President Barack Obama has appointed to his Administration, including the Department of Homeland Security, several members of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose hostility toward the United States and the West are no secret.

Why is this subversion occurring with the compliance of the American Congress, and without large-scale public protests? Is the United States suffering from a massive mental disorder, moral indifferentism, or just plain cowardice?

Have college youth been corrupted by the academic doctrine of moral and cultural relativism? Are they now incapable of distinguishing between good from evil? Has their will to uphold American versus Islamic values been eviscerated by this moral and cultural relativism?

Have Christians and Jews in this country been so demoralized as to think that it is politically incorrect to describe ISIS decapitations of non-Muslims as evil? Or has relativism led them to believe that calling ISIS evil is to express nothing more than a personal dislike, comparable to one’s dislike for a particular flavor of ice cream?

Perhaps their mentors believe, and have taught them to believe, that notions of good and evil are purely subjective, that since they are not susceptible to measurement or empirical verification, they have no objective validity. This academic relativism fosters Nihilism, a rejection of America’s cherished values. Indeed, a nihilist rejects all claims to objective truth, and should therefore be deemed a degenerate.

Since this is the pronounced tendency of contemporary (as opposed to classical) liberals, we may call them liberal leftists. As college graduates, these liberal leftists become America’s most influential opinion makers and decision makers. Many are anti-American, and would not be incorrect to call egoists. Indeed, since they incline to moral relativism, they may well be called degenerates.

Is there any presidential candidate that has the courage to expose these degenerates without being accused of McCarthyism?

I exposed this degeneracy in an a 1968 article published in the Congressional Record, showing how it was being propagated by the then Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, J. William Fulbright, as well as by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas – both arrant relativists. We have such people in today’s Supreme Court. They are also present in the State Department, as documented by former US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton.

The Relativist-in-Chief is in the White House! Unless patriotic Congressmen and the American people speak up and expose this relativism – this academic subversion of the United States – the demise of this Republic will replicate the pedagogical and political decline of Rome.◙