Posted on 09/12/2022 4:27:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We went mad because we easily could. And we could, not because we were poor and oppressed, but because we were rich and bored.
Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite, or have gone insane inventing the most lurid crimes to put away the supposedly predetermined guilty Donald Trump.
Instead, they express disbelief, worry, lamentation even, that the one solid referent in the world has gone, well, completely rabid. They are terrified after the Afghanistan debacle that their old ally or new homeland, the once constant America, is delirious, incompetent, and self-loathing, and now there is no plausible alternative to the old American deterrence.
So, they wonder who will resist China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea—and are silently petrified to go it alone without the United States.
They seem staggered by the very ideas that now emanate from the United States: that nonexistent borders are desirable; that once rarified institutions like the FBI or CIA now function like the Stasi of old; that the very idea of meritocracy is considered racist; that one incorrect word can destroy a life-long career; that there are three or more sexes, not two; that biological men with male genitalia and physiology can compete, and destroy decades of advances, in women’s sports; that race is the sole mode of self-identification; and that half of America dislikes American customs, history—and the other 50 percent of the population—as much as do its enemies.
Onlookers no longer see American universities as free-wheeling bastions of unfettered research and expression.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
This is what happens when the left takes over institutions.
VDH ping
It’s what happens when half the voting public are traitors who elect traitors into office and the other half vote for gutless cowards who won’t do anything to bring justice to the traitors when they have the opportunities.
Basically it’s what happens when a nation (or world) removes God from their lives.
BTTT
At least it is half and half. It’s their right/choice to make.
Life goes on until death do us part. Have a good one.
THAT pretty well sums it up. Problem is that most of the leadership of the gutless cowards are also in with the other half of traitors.
Amost all of them are too compromised and fat with greed.
Corruption, money, power.
The final spasms of a dying empire.
” Every agency available—government, popular culture, science, history, literature, the arts, the university, the media, big tech, the corporate boardroom, and Wall Street—must be subordinated and recalibrated to spot supposed inequality so that they can fix it through reparatory discrimination. All being equal and poorer is preferable to all being richer, but with some richer than others.”
What’s troubling is that all the institutions mentioned weren’t “subjugated. They voluntarily and unnecessarily joined the woke mob enthusiastically. They instantly rolled over seeming without thinking about the opinions of customers or employees. Hundreds of years of traditions, history, science and culture overturned in a second. I don’t see an easy way to turn it around. People will have to learn that there are harsh consequences for destroying Western Civilization.
Great writing by VDH but many of the comments to the article are brilliant. I would recommend perusing them.
VDH is not as pessimistic as you suggest here.
Nor does he agree with your characterization of us as an "Empire".
Instead, VDH believes our citizens can begin to restore our Constitutional Republic in November.
I hope he's right on that.
“they express disbelief, worry, lamentation even, that the one solid referent in the world has gone, well, completely rabid. “
Revelations 18:10 Time will tel if the US is Babylon the Great
Lots of Novembers went under the bridge to get us here. Either through fraud or voter stupidity elections as a vehicle for change only works when you have people willing to sacrifice and play the long game.
People on the right just don't do that. Almost all of the "conservative" politicians are so corrupt and self-serving they are perfectly fine with joining the democrats precisely because it means they won't have to sacrifice. An Republican voters just want to be left alone. Half of them won't even vote because 30 minutes every couple of years is too much of an investment for them.
Not all of us. And sadly, there are many, many people who still have not come out of their madness. They continue to blather on about “COVID”, and “vaccines”, and will be ready to jump right back into “lockdown” insanity the moment the media and government tell them to do so.
Those who bought into the “COVID” madness are not just foolish and weak-minded, they are a danger to free people everywhere. Their ignorant, selfish, fearful, servile stupidity made the “COVID” tyranny possible.
“Basically it’s what happens when a nation (or world) removes God from their lives.”
^^THIS^^
*BUMP*
"People endure bad times, but good times test a man's character more keenly."
~ Tacitus
Far too often you are correct on this.
Until recently polls suggested a nice "Red Wave" in November, but now that "wave" may just be a wave "bye-bye" from enthusiastic Democrat voters, who knows?
On the other hand, dishonest push-polls often under-count Republican voters, so there's no way to tell for sure now.
Still hoping for the best, as does, I think, VDH.
We went mad because we easily could. And we could, not because we were poor and oppressed, but because we were rich and bored.
Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite, or have gone insane inventing the most lurid crimes to put away the supposedly predetermined guilty Donald Trump.
Instead, they express disbelief, worry, lamentation even, that the one solid referent in the world has gone, well, completely rabid. They are terrified after the Afghanistan debacle that their old ally or new homeland, the once constant America, is delirious, incompetent, and self-loathing, and now there is no plausible alternative to the old American deterrence.
A view of America from overseas. Not the ugly American, but "What the h*ll are you guys thinking!"
As in, "Who will lead the free world?" against evil?
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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