Posted on 12/26/2023 12:56:14 PM PST by Hojczyk
Either the military will have to deter dramatically our growing number of opportunistic enemies, or it will descend into something like the French army between the world wars—plagued by ideology, ossified brass, corruption, mediocrity, misplaced investments, and bankrupt strategies.
If there are not radical changes in higher education, our Ivy League and self-identified elite campuses will go the way of Bud-Light, Disney, and Target—once premier brands reduced to red ink and laughing-stock caricatures.
The United States is cracking under 8 million illegal entries; it cannot sustain another year and 2 million more illegal entrants—or a total of 55-60 million foreign-born residents, with no idea of how many are U.S. citizens, illegal aliens, or green card holders–or how many are employable, or free of criminal records or in need of massive federal and state subsidies.
In 2024, the U.S. will begin to see that to meet its spiraling debt, it will either keep inflating its currency, or slash spending, or raise even further taxes to the degree that even the lower middle class will have to pay 50 percent of their income in state and federal taxes, or renounce its debt, and thus go full-Third World.
Will we meet these challenges or ensure the ongoing decline?
If what we saw after October 7, or the wild and out-of-control reign of weaponized local and state prosecutors, or what we watch nightly on television at the border, or the paralyses we witness abroad of our military, or the breezy way in which our officials promise groups here and abroad billions of dollars in easy money, continues into 2024, then the country as we knew it will become unrecognizable.
(Excerpt) Read more at victorhanson.com ...
Only 8 million illegals?
The decline is not a bug , but a feature. The Chinese Communists picked their sabatour well.
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Things I can argue against in the essay:
Long ago Michael Savage said: The American Lifeboat is full. Adding more and more passengers means the boat will sink with all on board.
In 2022, the US was more diverse than it was in 2010. In 2022, the white (non-Hispanic) group made up 58.9% of the population compared with 63.8% in 2010.
Between 2010 and 2022, the share of the population that is Hispanic/Latino grew the most, increasing 2.7 percentage points to 19.1%. The white (non-Hispanic) population had the largest decrease dropping 4.9 percentage points to 58.9%.
Less White, More Hispanic.
How has the distribution of ages in the US changed?
The share of the population that is 0 to 4 years old decreased from 6.5% in 2010 to 5.6% in 2022.
The share of the population that is 65 and older increased from 13.1% in 2010 to 17.3% in 2022.
DECREASING Birth Rate, INCREASINGLY older.
https://usafacts.org/data/topics/people-society/population-and-demographics/our-changing-population/
“Borders, Language, Culture.”
Nothing like sugar coating our problems huh VDH?
” Will we meet these challenges or ensure the ongoing decline? “
No and yes.
Every country in the West is on the same trajectory of decay.
We need to be building locally the parallel institutions we will need because conservatives are increasingly excluded from Regime instiutions.
And we will need the parallel insitutions once this Regime collapses.
Me, I’m studying mechanical engineering (as my “retirement” project) because we will need to build and repair our own stuff, or it is not going to get fixed.
Wise words.
8 million illegals?
More like 14 million, but hey, who’s counting?
Surely not Mayorca or the Biteme administration.
5.56mm
“plagued by ideology, ossified brass, corruption, mediocrity, misplaced investments, and bankrupt strategies.”
I can. I don’t believe the French Army was corrupt, and the only thing wrong about the Maginot Line was they didn’t build it all the way to the English Channel. As for tanks, like aircraft carriers, only a few enthusiasts had an inkling of how they could change warfare.
Good points. I stand corrected.
Joke is on them. China is in faster decline than America.
CC
Obama.... grrrrrrr
We have our own enemies born and bred here killing this country
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