VDH nails it again.
Old Man Yells At Cloud
“When do we hit bottom? Why did I get on this elevator in the first place? Can I speak to the elevator operator please?”
I don’t mean to be a Karen, but when DO we hit bottom?
“,,,some with Glee,
Some with Horror!”
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Babylon,Babylon has Fallen.
Perhaps most important is a first-rate inductive educational system. Of course, nothing is possible without general social calm (often dependent on a reverence for the past) and secure borders.
We are failing on all fronts. But hey, trans rights!
Our political class, our thoroughly corrupt media, race hustlers et al are working 24x7 to ruin the country.
VDH is one of the few remaining voices of sanity.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared." NB: The quote is from a 50-year-old fictional history of Cicero. "A Pillar of Iron: A Novel About Cicero and the Rome He Tried to Save"
Until all American cities are either a burned, ruined wasteland, or craters of glassed, radioactive smoking ruin, with any survivors in concentration camps run by liberal overlords...
Sorry, haven’t had my coffee yet.
The Roman Empire split into East and West, and shortly thereafter, the West collapsed. Could we also be seeing a scenario where the US splits into a North and South, one of which will soon collapse?
“Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For as knowledge grows or alters continually, it clashes with mythology and theology, which change with geological leisureliness. Priestly control of arts and letters is then felt as a galling shackle or hateful barrier, and intellectual history takes on the character of a "conflict between science and religion." Institutions which were at first in the hands of the clergy, like law and punishment, education and morals, marriage and divorce, tend to escape from ecclesiastical control, and become secular, perhaps profane. The intellectual classes abandon the ancient theology and—after some hesitation—the moral code allied with it; literature and philosophy become anticlerical. The movement of liberation rises to an exuberant worship of reason, and falls to a paralyzing disillusionment with every dogma and every idea. Conduct, deprived of its religious supports, deteriorates into epicurean chaos; and life itself, shorn of consoling faith, becomes a burden alike to conscious poverty and to weary wealth. In the end a society and its religion tend to fall together, like body and soul, in a harmonious death. Meanwhile among the oppressed another myth arises, gives new form to human hope, new courage to human effort, and after centuries of chaos builds another civilization."
“Its prosperity, freedom and overall stability depend on its constitutional and political stability.”
A little overreach, Victor. Political change is usually perceived as a war between the two sides.
Our constitution and our founders recognize the inevitability of conflict.
The media is in the business of making mountains out of molehills and audiences love it.
The decline will continue until we repent. To start, there are three things that have to stop:
1. Abortion
2. Sexual immorality
3. Pornography
A small correction: ALL with glee.
VDH bump for later....
When? This only has to do with timing. If the dems are successful in codifying the election fraud, very soon.
If reps are successful in minimizing the fraud, it can be delayed but for how long. The LEFT will continue to ratchet this country to the LEFT.
The LEFT owns the levers of power and now they want the police.
The LEFT’s 100 year march thru the institutions has been very successful. Now that they have shifted to race warfare from class warfare, their march has gained speed.
What VDH knows, what Trump knows, and what Rush was often so good at elaborating:
The solution is to simply round them up and incarcerate them for at least a generation. The same people that don't care that the 2020 election was stolen, won't care if these people are put away. Guaron-teed.
Trump was going there in 2019-2020 -- think Portland Mystery Machines writ much larger -- and he will go there in 2024, but it's up to US to address the electoral laws that we will need to prevent 2020 from ever happening again.
The secular mind points to the cultural markers.
They ignore the spiritual markers.
National Review, where VDH is a contributor, certainly can’t credibly feign any surprise or indignant opposition to the ruinous path on which we now find ourselves. I would say they contributed in large part, but that would be giving them way too much credit. Instead of focusing on and celebrating Trump’s multiple, positive, pro-American initiatives and successes, National Review as a whole derided him for being an inelegant embarrassment. They could not count on him to be predictable in his responses. He spoke as if in spontaneous conversation (minimal use of or reliance on a teleprompter) - and did not provide answers with the customary nuanced delivery that would allow press secretaries and media interpreters to tell us that what we had heard was in no way aligned with what he had said.
He delivered results. He did not lose our trust.
However, this wasn’t enough for NR.
Their rejection of Trump amounted to their hearty endorsement for the inevitable destruction that is JBiden&Co. What did they expect?