Once it was only people like me who were taking the Spengler line that the West was in decline, if not dying. It was seen in the undermining of the fundamental institutions of society, such as the family, in the name of Left wing 1960s liberation movements, such as feminism. There seems to be a trend of defeat for conservatives on most issues; who in 1953 would have predicted that in 2023 there would be an issue of what a woman is? Trans-sexualism then was a very small issue, but today the transgender issue is grasped by the intelligentsia and corporates with a passion. And so it goes on with a vast number of issues, such as immigration and multiculturalism. It is especially so in relation to the cultural undermining of Christian values, through the infiltration of the church by neo-Marxists. Gavin Ashenden, a former Chaplain to the late Queen has stated on this point:
“I’m not sure how long our culture and our civilization is going to survive in a recognizably present form. I think people will talk about the second Elizabethan age as bringing down the curtain on everything that we knew up to this point. Between now and 2030 the militant Left is going to try to cripple Christianity — what’s left of it — and has, by 2022, almost done it. . . . Christian teachers taken to jail simply because they refuse to accept the subjectivity of people they’re in a professional relationship with? Christian chaplains reported as terrorist threats because they do nothing more than offer a sensible and intelligent assessment of the different allegiances that our plurifom society brings? That’s now. I reckon in the next eight years it’s going to get a lot worse.”