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America in Free Fall
Hoover Institution ^ | 17 June 2016 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/17/2016 9:53:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan

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1 posted on 06/17/2016 9:53:30 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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The careers of nevertrumpers are finished.

It’s too bad cuz I kinda liked Hanson.


2 posted on 06/17/2016 9:57:19 AM PDT by Electric Graffiti (DEPORT OBOLA VOTERS)
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3 posted on 06/17/2016 9:57:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Rummyfan

as always, VDH nails it

we are headed for very dark times.

Very dark


4 posted on 06/17/2016 9:59:53 AM PDT by QualityMan (I will not comply.)
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To: Rummyfan

Free Fallin’ like Tom Petty.


5 posted on 06/17/2016 10:00:19 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: QualityMan

Quote:

“we are headed for very dark times.

Very dark”

A nation that has turned its back on God and Nature has signed its own death warrant.

Pray for the best but prepare for the worst.


6 posted on 06/17/2016 10:02:17 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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To: Rummyfan

Is he a NeverTrumper? Not seeing it here. Good piece. Here’s Obama’s true legacy. Fundamentally transformed? Check.


7 posted on 06/17/2016 10:02:50 AM PDT by Yaelle (Make America Safe Again)
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To: Rummyfan
The founding fathers knew what to do. Go back to tariffs, ditch the 16th amendment and watch it all come roaring back.

At some point we will figure it out.

8 posted on 06/17/2016 10:06:51 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: QualityMan

Yes, and the Saudi Prince is at the White House...the landlord is coming to check on the place.


9 posted on 06/17/2016 10:08:18 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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Donald Trump has neither political experience nor a detailed agenda, but has charged ahead on the basis of his vague promise to “make America great again”—a Jacksonian version of Obama’s equally vacuous 2008 promise of “hope and change.”

VDH is not listening. Elites can't hear Trump's clear message because they don't like it. Screw this loser.

10 posted on 06/17/2016 10:10:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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there is no encouraging model of socialist success

Won't stop us from trying. We'd be the wealthiest country to ever do so by an order of magnitude. It would be a LOOOOOONG time before they ran out of other people's money.


11 posted on 06/17/2016 10:12:30 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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This is why this year’s Presidential elections is going to be very important.

Elect DJT!


12 posted on 06/17/2016 10:14:12 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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advocacy of unchecked and raucous expression,


Are you for it or against it, VDH? The use of raucous tells me you’re against unchecked expression. What a sorry thing for a conservative to say. And what ‘check’ would you like on speech?


13 posted on 06/17/2016 10:19:36 AM PDT by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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disagree on a single point: there IS a region that is better off now, with high growth and low unemployment. Things are good here, in Capital District, or, as those of you in the hinterlands call it, the Washington DC Metropolitan Area.

Bring on the Hunger Games !

(sarcasm intended)


14 posted on 06/17/2016 10:40:49 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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Now that's a little more like it. VDH doesn't like Trump, that probably hasn't changed, but he's at least open to the apparent fact that it's Trump or something very, very much worse. I wonder, though, how far he feels Trump fits the Philip of Macedon model he cited in the opening paragraph. That'd probably be a three-beer conversation. If we're into historical analogies I have a better suggestion.

The meat of the article is here:

Apparently, the Obama administration never considered that a multiracial America united by one culture was an historical exception. Everywhere else, multiculturalism and tribalism without assimilation, integration, and intermarriage have proved to be an abject and usually violent catastrophe: most recently, in the former Soviet Union, the Balkans, Rwanda, and the Middle East. Europe’s attempt to emulate a multiracial United States is ending in utter failure with unchecked immigration, multicultural incoherence, and rising Islamism.

Ouch. I suspect the damage in the United States is reparable so long as there are citizens who realized that the old racial comity, such as it was, provided a considerably more rich and comfortable middle-class life than the current racial Balkanization ever can. A lot of people are shaking their heads at this "change" wondering where the "hope" went, and they're not all conservatives.

Because the vision of the America that is, turns out to be considerably less illusory than 0bama's vision of an America yet to be. He and the rest of the radicals will provide the ashes, the phoenix will have to take care of itself. Best of luck with that. Those ashes are the ashes of a middle class that represented the best life ever attained for the most people in all of history, a Golden Age that is rapidly slipping away. It isn't being replaced by something better, it isn't being replaced at all, because the social architects turn out to be glib incompetents who have made their own living secure against the chaos they've instigated. That's not so good for the rest of us.

When rioting youths in San Diego, Fresno, and San Jose burn or deface American flags, as they have been doing in recent weeks, and wave Mexican flags instead, then we are witnessing a tragic farce, the consequences of decades of ethnic-chauvinism, multiculturalism, and cluelessness of the norms and realities outside of America.... Ultimately the central paradox of immigration is the strange nexus of anger and grievance against the United States by immigration advocates—and the overriding desire nonetheless to enter and reside in such a purportedly unattractive place.

They're after plunder, not assimilation, which hearkens back to VDH's citation of the first paragraph. They don't want undeveloped land, there's plenty of that. They want a share of that which they did not and cannot build for themselves but feel entitled to anyway. 0bama's "you didn't build that" is telling - if you didn't, you haven't a right to "it" and "it" may be expropriated and redistributed in perfect justice by anyone possessing the physical force to manage it. That is the ethical paradigm not only of thieves, but of robbers. What is being incubated in the Southwest corner of the country is not social justice, but conquest.

Nevertheless, they are no Macedonians and they have no Philip, no Alexander, and the United States of America is going to prove a rather more formidable prospect than a few hundred squabbling Greek city-states. That part of history won't repeat, even as farce.

15 posted on 06/17/2016 10:45:11 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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” Instead, Obama slashed defense spending and hiked a number of taxes, but ignored entitlements, ensuring $500 million annual deficits—deemed successful because they were less than his first-term normal of $1 billion annual shortfalls. “

Doesn’t he mean $500 billion and $1 trillion?


16 posted on 06/17/2016 10:46:57 AM PDT by SteveH
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Good article, but he messed up paragraph 5. It should be $500 billion and $1 trillion. Hopefully he’ll catch it and fix it.


17 posted on 06/17/2016 10:55:20 AM PDT by afsnco
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To: Rummyfan

HILLARY CLINTON:CAREER CRIMINAL
The 20 minute video at the link below was published in November, 2015 and has so far had nearly 6 MILLION views. It needs to go to 60 MILLION OR MORE. See if you can help that happen!
As I watched, I kept thinking how in God’s name could ANY sentient, logical citizen vote for this woman. I’m a rather peaceful guy, but I then moved on to a thought that frightened me: I could easily support the new president negotiating with the current owners of what the French owners at the time called “Devil’s Island”, buying the place then PACKING EVERY CLINTON VOTER OFF TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS/HER LIFE GAZING AT THE SEA.

And as obozo’s maladministration winds down and HIS criminality and TREASON come under scrutiny and become more visible, I’d add HIS supporters to the list!

WHY? Because, by their failure to grasp the most fundamental concepts under which this place was created, it is a certainty that they WILL DESTROY IT and only the most Draconian methods will halt that destruction!

All of that said, banishment is a far more merciful fate than that discussed by obozo’s mentor, Bill Ayers and others, as described in the 2 minute Larry Grathwohl video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ

HERE’S THE HILLARY VIDEO LINK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kypl1MYuKDY
PLEASE SHARE THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE!!


18 posted on 06/17/2016 11:23:55 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: central_va
At some point we will figure it out

If not now, when?

Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. Ronald Reagan

"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." --John Adams

19 posted on 06/17/2016 12:54:07 PM PDT by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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No. No we won’t.


20 posted on 06/17/2016 2:53:30 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Hillary is Satan's spiritual advisor.)
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