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Is America Heading for a Systems Collapse?
American Greatness ^ | 19 Jan, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/20/2022 4:40:23 AM PST by MtnClimber

As the 2022 midterm elections approach, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division—and self-inflicted madness?

In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it.

Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Everyday things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile.

Consider contemporary Venezuela. By 2010, the once well-off oil-exporting country was mired in a self-created mess. Food became scarce, crime ubiquitous.

Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional norms were the culprits.

Between 2009 and 2016, a once relatively stable Greece nearly became a Third World country. So did Great Britain in its socialist days of the 1970s.

Joe Biden’s young presidency may already be leading the United States into a similar meltdown.

Hard Left “woke” ideology has all but obliterated the idea of a border. Millions of impoverished foreigners are entering the United States illegally—and during a pandemic without either COVID-19 tests or vaccinations.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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To: MtnClimber

when the government can take away your natural rights at will, and you need their permission to have a party - it’s over


21 posted on 01/20/2022 5:02:47 AM PST by wny ( )
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To: Skywise

I have been saying the Democrats are out to destroy America since the 60’s when I belonged to JBS. John Birch was right on the money way back when.


22 posted on 01/20/2022 5:02:49 AM PST by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: Jim Noble

The words minimal and weak are not synonyms.


23 posted on 01/20/2022 5:03:47 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: sauropod

Look, there is no system collapse. This is psycho babble. The images we see in main stream media are choreographed to show rampant crime, riots, chaos, as seeming random acts, in order to demoralize. This is always filmed in locations where the police and district attorney are intentionally fomenting such acts. Go to the suburbs and there is no such acts. It is manipulated selective perception — look this, not that. Why is Hanson falling for this?


24 posted on 01/20/2022 5:05:12 AM PST by WLusvardi
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To: ClearCase_guy

How do you turn 81 votes into 81 million votes. It’s simple when you have Dominion over the counting process.


25 posted on 01/20/2022 5:05:40 AM PST by Old Yeller (1776 em all. Let God sort it out.)
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To: nathanbedford

“ but if we have not these fundamentals there is nothing short of rebellion which is likely to descend into terrorism.”

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

History is written by the winners.

L


26 posted on 01/20/2022 5:07:02 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

CloPiv strato to collapse things.


27 posted on 01/20/2022 5:10:19 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Lurker
And those who mourn the dying? What do they write?


28 posted on 01/20/2022 5:12:13 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: MtnClimber
If everyone with an (R) after their name was a Constitutional patriot, the GOP would be unstoppable.

RINO-controlled state legislatures allowed the Rats to steal 2020 because of their petty hatred of Trump.

If you want to save the country, the single most important thing you can do is vote out every RINO who must face a primary this year. Rinse and repeat in 2024.

The GOP belongs to us, not them. Make the RINOs start their own party by sending them packing.

29 posted on 01/20/2022 5:17:34 AM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Jim Noble

“And how, exactly, are they trying to do that?”

You haven’t seen Lindsey Graham uttering strong words?


30 posted on 01/20/2022 5:18:09 AM PST by moovova
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To: MtnClimber

https://tessa.substack.com/p/great-reset-dummies

Build Back Better is the Great Reset. Self appointed Social Engineers are planning it as we speak as this is the WEF’s Davos 2022 week. https://twitter.com/wef

The next manufactured global crisis they’re planning for is a :Cyber Pandemic”. Just like they held meetings, created literature & non-profit orgs and had multiple planning events with the final one being Event 201 right before the COVID plandemic, they had a Cyber Plandemic war game last July and are having another this July.

They are “preparing for” a collapse of the internet worldwide which will take down life as we know it due to multiple hacks aka Cyber Plandemic. If I had to guess, when the internet comes back up, it will be quite different, centrally controlled by them and many people and websites will be gone off of it for good.

Looks at the COVID response. Every Western and many non-Western governments responded much the same. These people have control of most governments, almost all news reporting and most institutions. Alternate information could still be obtained on the internet though. Early treatments with repurposed drugs with doctors giving out their treatment protocols on their websites. Alternate news sources and opinions. Videos of anti-mandate protests around the world. They need to put an end to that for the big takeover.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/02/investigative-reports/from-event-201-to-cyber-polygon-the-wefs-simulation-of-a-coming-cyber-pandemic/


31 posted on 01/20/2022 5:22:28 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: nathanbedford

“And those who mourn the dying? What do they write?”

Epic tales, songs of heroism and sacrifice, really good epitaphs, and sometimes a Divinely inspired Constitution.

Next question.

L


32 posted on 01/20/2022 5:25:57 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Old Yeller

😎👍


33 posted on 01/20/2022 5:28:56 AM PST by moovova
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To: 9YearLurker

Agree.

Is he that behind the curve blind as to what’s happening? Or, just putting a little lipstick on the ugly reality?


34 posted on 01/20/2022 5:32:11 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: OHPatriot
I have seen the power of the cemetery vote. Not on a national scale, (which would be one hell of a trick to pull off)

No but they have the cities and only needed 6 of them to sway the national election for president with the help of Zuckerberg. If they pull that ballot collection boxes crap again, it most be stopped/destroyed. Same with middle of the night ballot deliveries via car, van and truck. We need people in the cities at all times 24/7 for a few weeks if need be.

I think we'll do ok in the 2022 mid terms because they don't have the ability to cheat everywhere. It's 2024 when they'll try to do the steal again, especially if Trump runs.

35 posted on 01/20/2022 5:32:35 AM PST by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, the system in America is collapsing. It deserves to collapse. It seems necessary for the American people to suffer, to be taught a lesson. Elections have consequences, stolen elections have catastrophic consequences. So be it. Payback is coming.


36 posted on 01/20/2022 5:39:27 AM PST by Skul
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To: Lurker
Epic tales, songs of heroism and sacrifice, really good epitaphs, and sometimes a Divinely inspired Constitution.

No, the mourners do write "epic tales" they rent their rainments, put on sackcloth and ashes, gnash their teeth and succumb to Dhimmitude. The dead do not write constitutions nor do their mourners. Our framers were victors not losers. Those who wrote the Declaration of Independence knew the forfeit for losing and that is why they said they were pledging their "lives" as well as their fortunes and sacred honor.

My ancestors fought bravely for their conception of liberty and lost at Appomattox. I will grant you their epic tales of heroism and the unspeakable sacrifice of Jackson's foot cavalry, I have seen their epitaphs on the tombstones of Gettysburg but they wrote no Constitution, they descended into generations of poverty.

However, they did not descend into guerrilla warfare, or terrorism, rather they waged honorable war but lost so they paid a century long price.


37 posted on 01/20/2022 5:43:04 AM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: MtnClimber
The left thinks that a collapse will allow them to Build Back Better
Most people think that means "building back" from where we are now, and they see it as a benign slogan. Sadly, they're going to awaken a day late to the fact that "build back" literally means "destroy first."
38 posted on 01/20/2022 5:44:51 AM PST by nicollo
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To: MtnClimber

USA.2


39 posted on 01/20/2022 5:50:26 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: nathanbedford

“Our framers were victors not losers”

That’s precisely my point. When war is thrust upon you, don’t lose.

“However, they did not descend into guerrilla warfare..”

Francis Marion did. And it worked pretty well at Lexington, Concord, and Saratoga.

“My ancestors fought bravely for their conception of liberty and lost at Appomattox.”

Correction. They surrendered at Appomattox. They had lost long before that. They simply could not compete with the industrial capacity of the North. And they really humped the bunk at Ft. Sumpter. The smart move would have been to wait out the Federals and offer to pay compensation to the North for it.

L


40 posted on 01/20/2022 5:51:53 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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