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Victor Davis Hanson: The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America
Patriot Post ^ | 04/01/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 04/01/2021 7:31:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 04/01/2021 10:44:43 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.

There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.

1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.


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TOPICS: Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: politicallycorrect; radicalism; rules; vdh; wokeness
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To: nascarnation

Trump provided clarity. Outing the deep state.


21 posted on 04/01/2021 10:21:20 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: hopespringseternal

Exactly. The national name brands fund the LEFTIST media. They have all gone “woke” with few exceptions.

Stop funding the “woke” national name brands and the LEFTIST media. Its a twofer.

Cut cable tv
Avoid national name brands as much as possible. Go local/generic.

This is a war. Fight with your wallet.


22 posted on 04/01/2021 10:35:06 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bttt.

5.56mm


23 posted on 04/01/2021 10:37:08 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP


Comparison to GDP may be helpful to compare to other countries but it is nonsensical when talking about the ability to repay.

Debt to tax revenues shows ability to repay. Debt is 7 to 8 times tax revenues and climbing.

Debt is nothing more than deferred taxes.

In addition, currently debt is being serviced at historically low interest rates. When rates return to historical averages, interest will eat the fed budget.


24 posted on 04/01/2021 10:40:57 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: SeekAndFind
Learn about Joseph McCarthy and how the enemedia's revisionist history worked to destroy him in the book, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies, by M. Stanton Evans.
25 posted on 04/01/2021 11:13:33 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: alloysteel
One helluva toboggan ride.

Ten years ago Larry Edleson predicted what he called a "Roller coaster ride through hell" in the financial markets and in the streets. His prediction was for a collapse of fiat currency and international instability and violence.

He said it would be happening right about now with the peak coming in '21 or '22 (IIRC)

He also predicted the Dow would reach 30K about now and that gold would rise to $5000. When he made those predictions, the DJIA was just above 12K and gold had just pulled back from near $2K to about where it is now.

I had thought that the violence and cultural upheaval he predicted came early, last Summer. Now, however...

"Roller coaster ride through hell" Buckle your safety belt and keep your hands and arms inside the car.

26 posted on 04/01/2021 1:31:13 PM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: SeekAndFind

The American Revolution was a fight against arbitrary rule.

Oh well...


27 posted on 04/01/2021 2:43:04 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Kevmo

Look on the bright side, maybe someone made lemonade. :P


28 posted on 04/01/2021 3:07:19 PM PDT by Kommodor (Solzhenitsyn was an optimist...)
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To: Bratch; SeekAndFind; Liz; V K Lee; rlmorel; GOPJ

It’s a good summary of Hanson’s points. And there are probably 90 other points that could be added.

One of the most damaging creeds of the Left not mentioned is the Left’s demand for diverrrrrsity over competence. This is a 6-lane highway to a Banana Republic hell.

Affirmative action in college admissions does minor damage compared to forcing incompetent people to be hired to the most important job- and wealth-creating institutions in our country.

And thanks to election fraud, the Uniparty has installed a totally corrupt and incompetent leader as head of our Federal Government — the most important institution for ensuring our commonwealth and wise direction of our society.

What can be done? One of the most important things, I think, is to get involved in local politics. Commenting on Free Republic is not enough. I started on this path a couple months ago.

We need to work with like-minded people to hold public officials accountable and take actions to educate the 10% lost sheep who can be saved.

I’m proud of what my legislators in Georgia have done in the last month to reform our State election laws. Now we must elect strong MAGA supporters to public offices.

My Congressional rep, Jody Hice, is running to replace Rattsenburgr as Secretary of State here in Georgia. That’s an important next step to turning things around.


29 posted on 04/03/2021 4:05:25 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit
....thanks to massive election fraud, the Uniparty has installed a totally corrupt and incompetent individual to head "our" Government —
who also moonlights as the head of the Biden Crime Family, and is grabbing everything he can get his hands on........

This is, after all, government of the people, by the people and for the people.
We, the people steer the govt in the direction in which we think it should be headed.

30 posted on 04/03/2021 4:19:23 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: joshua c; poconopundit
The Biden State Dept got bi***-slapped in Alaska. It was like watching a moronic scene from "The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
China took the lead early on. Tripper Biden sent his washed-out SoS Antony Blinkin, who once headed Joe Biden's Money-Laundering Machine.

Blinkin and Biden are first class saps.

Right now, the U$D is the world’s reserve currency. But when the U.S. loses the leader position the $26 trillion national debt becomes very real. Right now the dollar remains artificially stable because every country conducting commodity trades and other financial actions trade with U.S. dollars. China wants it to be either a basket currency or the Chinese Yuan, preference is the latter.

As China asserts its global influence, this change in the world’s reserve currency will happen; when it does, it will be like someone pulled the plug on the US financial system.

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China plainly told Americans: “We selected & elected your president boss and bought off the Biden Crime Family. The Bidens are our slaves. Case closed.

The Biden Crime Family and many in Tripper Joe's administration, as well as the Democrap/Republican UNI Party, are obeisant to the Chinese, having been paid off for their service. They took their 30 pieces of silver.....as the American tax-paying public gets crucified.

They got so rich, the Biden Crime Family has no worries…....in truth, the Chinese paid off the Biden Crime Family years ago when Biden was VP.

31 posted on 04/03/2021 4:25:51 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: poconopundit

Pull the kill switch on the Biden infrastructure Boondoggle.......it deserves to die a slow agonizing death.

The parasitic Biden Crime Family is all set to get rich quick sucking off the backs of struggling taxpayers.

The Bidens’ unrestrained greed imperils the safety and security of Americans.


Biden’s got a lot of people to payoff.

China’s influence in the United States (and Europe) link the Berggruen Institute with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The Berggruen Institute first rose to national attention after co-founding the “Transition Integrity Project”
which advised on how Joe Biden could seize power on the back of an ostensible Trump victory.

I wonder how much of our tax dollars Joe Biden allocated to the “Transition Integrity Project” in that $2 trillion boondoggle of his.


32 posted on 04/03/2021 4:37:09 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Liz
It's a very good question to begin a conversation with people:
33 posted on 04/03/2021 6:38:34 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Liz
Fortunately, the Chinese yuan doesn't stand a chance of overtaking the dollar. Why? Because the Chinese yuan is built on a stack of cards.

Everybody knows it. That's why investments in China go through Hong Kong which obeys international rules of finance. The Chinese know nothing about bank audits and trustworthy financial statements. They cannot be trusted.

Biden cannot be trusted because he's in bed with the Chinese and they are in-fact "slapping" the USA in the face.

And we are still in danger of steady corruption and incompetence entering and growing in our treasured institutions.

President Xinping, the Covid King, is trying to grow his Dominion over the United States -- and the world for that matter.


34 posted on 04/03/2021 7:00:02 AM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit
Biden cannot be trusted; he's in bed with the Chinese and so is the entire bought and paid for
Biden Crime Family. China is on its high horse, "slapping down" the USA every chance it gets.
35 posted on 04/03/2021 7:03:28 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: poconopundit
One of the most damaging creeds of the Left not mentioned is the Left’s demand for diverrrrrsity over competence. This is a 6-lane highway to a Banana Republic hell.

BINGO! Would you really want to fly on a plane where the pilot was allowed to bypassed flight training because of the 'color of his skin'...

36 posted on 04/03/2021 8:37:20 AM PDT by GOPJ ("Leftists want election fraud - Nick Searcy" -\ "Ignore ‘Low-IQ Race-Baiter’ AOC" - Tucker Carlson)
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To: GOPJ; Liz

BINGO! Would you really want to fly on a plane where the pilot was allowed to bypassed flight training because of the ‘color of his skin’...

* * *

Very nice analogy, GOPJ. That’s a potentially life saving choice. It gets the point across real well.

And people have trouble connecting that to “quality of life” issues, but it’s just as relevant.

If we can get people to recognize the insanity they are proposing, we’re halfway there!


37 posted on 04/03/2021 12:07:34 PM PDT by poconopundit (Hard oak fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: poconopundit; GOPJ

The latest insanity.......math must be racist b/c black students cant get passing grades.

So I guess all those engineers using math formulas to build safe suspension bridges over water and gorges must be racist.


38 posted on 04/03/2021 12:23:29 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: poconopundit

The left is trying to destabilize the country. They know perfectly well the outcomes of the ideas they’re pushing.


39 posted on 04/03/2021 9:09:11 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Leftists want election fraud - Nick Searcy" -\ "Ignore ‘Low-IQ Race-Baiter’ AOC" - Tucker Carlson)
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To: Liz
The latest insanity.......math must be racist b/c black students cant get passing grades.

We need to stand up to this crap... and call it what it is: nuts.

40 posted on 04/03/2021 9:10:25 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Leftists want election fraud - Nick Searcy" -\ "Ignore ‘Low-IQ Race-Baiter’ AOC" - Tucker Carlson)
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