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Victor Davis Hanson-Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:03 pm
Imagine the Unimaginable - Victor Davis Hanson
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.
Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.
In desperation, Russia's impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war.
A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power.
After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving how best to exploit this rare window of global military opportunity.
The traditional bedrocks of the American system - a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system - are dissolving.
Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation is at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable. The necessary remedy of high interest and tight money will be almost as bad as the disease of hyperinflation.
There is no southern border.
Expect over 1 million foreign nationals to swarm this summer into the United States without audit, COVID testing, or vaccination. None will have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigration law.
Police are underfunded and increasingly defunded. District attorneys deliberately release violent criminals without charges. (Literally 10,000 people witnessed a deranged man with a knife attack comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl last week, and the Los Angeles County D.A. refused to press felony charges.) Murder and assault are spiraling. Carjacking and smash-and-grab thefts are now normal big-city events.
Crime is now mostly a political matter. Ideology, race, and politics determine whether the law is even applied.
Supermarket shelves are thinning, and meats are now beyond the budgets of millions of Americans. An American president - in a first - casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared from many shelves.
Politics are resembling the violent last days of the Roman Republic. An illegal leak of a possible impending Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade that would allow state voters to set their own abortion laws has created a national hysteria.
Never has a White House tacitly approved mobs of protesters showing up at Supreme Court justices' homes to rant and bully them into altering their votes.
There is no free speech any more on campuses.
Merit is disappearing. Admissions, hiring, promotion, retention, grading, and advancement are predicated increasingly on mouthing the right orthodoxies or belonging to the proper racial, gender, or ethnic category.
When the new campus commissariat finally finishes absorbing the last redoubts in science, math, engineering, medical, and professional schools, America will slide into permanent mediocrity and irreversible declining standards of living.
What happened?
Remember all these catastrophes are self-induced. They are choices, not fate. The U.S. has the largest combined gas, coal, and oil deposits in the world. It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and to ensure the cleanest energy development on the planet.
Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. For short-term political advantage, he kept printing trillions of dollars, incentivizing labor non-participation, and keeping interest rates at historical lows - at a time of pent-up global demand.
The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.
Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories - "modern monetary theory," critical legal theory, critical race theory - now dominate policymaking in the Biden administration.
The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism. Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.
Is that not the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from 18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?
The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022. Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.
Why? The Left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.
So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing, cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.
Meanwhile, left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme Court decisions, illegally cancel student debts, and likely by the fall issue more COVID lockdowns. They will still dream of packing the Court, ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding more states, and flooding the November balloting with hundreds of millions more dollars of dark money from Silicon Valley.
When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous - as we shall see over the next few months.
LINK
Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.
Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.
In desperation, Russia's impaired and unhinged leader, Russian President Vladimir Putin, now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war.
A 79-year-old President Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power.
After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad. China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving how best to exploit this rare window of global military opportunity.
The traditional bedrocks of the American system - a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system - are dissolving.
Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation is at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable. The necessary remedy of high interest and tight money will be almost as bad as the disease of hyperinflation.
There is no southern border.
Expect over 1 million foreign nationals to swarm this summer into the United States without audit, COVID testing, or vaccination. None will have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigration law.
Police are underfunded and increasingly defunded. District attorneys deliberately release violent criminals without charges. (Literally 10,000 people witnessed a deranged man with a knife attack comedian Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl last week, and the Los Angeles County D.A. refused to press felony charges.) Murder and assault are spiraling. Carjacking and smash-and-grab thefts are now normal big-city events.
Crime is now mostly a political matter. Ideology, race, and politics determine whether the law is even applied.
Supermarket shelves are thinning, and meats are now beyond the budgets of millions of Americans. An American president - in a first - casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared from many shelves.
Politics are resembling the violent last days of the Roman Republic. An illegal leak of a possible impending Supreme Court reversal of Roe v. Wade that would allow state voters to set their own abortion laws has created a national hysteria.
Never has a White House tacitly approved mobs of protesters showing up at Supreme Court justices' homes to rant and bully them into altering their votes.
There is no free speech any more on campuses.
Merit is disappearing. Admissions, hiring, promotion, retention, grading, and advancement are predicated increasingly on mouthing the right orthodoxies or belonging to the proper racial, gender, or ethnic category.
When the new campus commissariat finally finishes absorbing the last redoubts in science, math, engineering, medical, and professional schools, America will slide into permanent mediocrity and irreversible declining standards of living.
What happened?
Remember all these catastrophes are self-induced. They are choices, not fate. The U.S. has the largest combined gas, coal, and oil deposits in the world. It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and to ensure the cleanest energy development on the planet.
Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. For short-term political advantage, he kept printing trillions of dollars, incentivizing labor non-participation, and keeping interest rates at historical lows - at a time of pent-up global demand.
The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.
Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories - "modern monetary theory," critical legal theory, critical race theory - now dominate policymaking in the Biden administration.
The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism. Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.
Is that not the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from 18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?
The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022. Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.
Why? The Left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.
So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing, cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.
Meanwhile, left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme Court decisions, illegally cancel student debts, and likely by the fall issue more COVID lockdowns. They will still dream of packing the Court, ending the filibuster, scrapping the Electoral College, adding more states, and flooding the November balloting with hundreds of millions more dollars of dark money from Silicon Valley.
When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous - as we shall see over the next few months.
LINK
This post was edited on 5/15/22 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:05 pm to ItzMe1972
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hallowed universities
That's debatable.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:13 pm to ItzMe1972
Holy shite, spot on and terrifying to see it all laid out so bare!
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:13 pm to ItzMe1972
Depressing article. Geez.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:15 pm to ItzMe1972
Can you please post the link for this article?
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:16 pm to ItzMe1972
I keep hate having to do this but Putin isn’t unhinged, nor are they losing at this point. That all depends on how balls to the wall the globalists go
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:18 pm to ItzMe1972
It was unimaginable when our real President was in the White House. All of the problems Hanson describes can be directly attributed to Democrats who seek to destroy our country and all that it has stood for.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:37 pm to ItzMe1972
It’s becoming increasingly apparent even to moderates, independents and blue collar democrats that this administration is purposely destroying America by doing everything opposite of what would benefit the average American.
All decisions have one common denominator, and that is to destabilize America.
All decisions have one common denominator, and that is to destabilize America.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:43 pm to ItzMe1972
quote:
The traditional bedrocks of the American system - a stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal justice system - are dissolving.
The collapse is engineered. Fake news, fake pandemics, fake elections, fake wars all in service of a fake currency.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:43 pm to LRB1967
I wonder why Hanson never mentioned oligarchs or the WEF.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:45 pm to Revelator
They, this administration, is more loyal to and care more for their ideologies than to the citizens of this country. They are doing exactly what they want to do, the rest of us be damned.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:46 pm to ItzMe1972
If the old Reagan question “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” were asked today, the only people who would honestly answer “Yes” would be the establishment elites.
No doubt the elites have their boot licking supporters among the general public however a good number of those people don’t care so much about being better off themselves but rather take their personal joy in seeing “conservatives” worse off.
No doubt the elites have their boot licking supporters among the general public however a good number of those people don’t care so much about being better off themselves but rather take their personal joy in seeing “conservatives” worse off.
This post was edited on 5/15/22 at 6:47 pm
Posted on 5/15/22 at 6:53 pm to Great Plains Drifter
quote:
No doubt the elites have their boot licking supporters among the general public
A good number of them post here.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 7:20 pm to ItzMe1972
The evil, crooked, fake news mainstream media is such a huge player in all this coming disaster.
Damn…. Victor is such a straight shooter. This stuff is scary.
Damn…. Victor is such a straight shooter. This stuff is scary.
This post was edited on 5/15/22 at 7:24 pm
Posted on 5/15/22 at 7:22 pm to xxTIMMYxx
quote:
Putin isn’t unhinged, nor are they losing at this point.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 7:49 pm to ItzMe1972
The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022.
Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.
Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.
Posted on 5/15/22 at 7:57 pm to ItzMe1972
quote:
Why? The Left has no confidence either in constitutional government or common sense.
This should be on billboards across the Country
Posted on 5/15/22 at 8:01 pm to ItzMe1972
quote:
The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022.
Yet the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Biden still push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and deliberate cabinet nonperformance.
And outside of a small handful of exceptions, it’s been basically crickets from the “opposition.”
Posted on 5/15/22 at 8:04 pm to ItzMe1972
Well if you put it like that…
Damn. That is a depressing article to read everything laid out together like that.
Damn. That is a depressing article to read everything laid out together like that.
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