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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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1 posted on 04/01/2021 7:31:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Note my tagline: "Authority is vested in those to whom it applies."

If you don't play along, it fails.

2 posted on 04/01/2021 7:34:20 AM PDT by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Note my tagline: "Authority is vested in those to whom it applies."

If you don't play along, it fails.

3 posted on 04/01/2021 7:34:20 AM PDT by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The warping has begun. In a few years, this country will be something no one in their right mind ever imagined it would become.


4 posted on 04/01/2021 7:36:09 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hanson slips when he equates McCarthyism with “cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror.”

“Cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror” give aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States.


5 posted on 04/01/2021 7:36:54 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t forget, free speech is no longer allowed.


6 posted on 04/01/2021 7:37:14 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Carl Vehse

I believe one of Trump’s failings was not having control of his own social media channels. I don’t think he ever imagined that free speech would be turned off in America.

Trump helped make Tweater universal and then the left shunted him off. I remember touring the WH in 2107 with my grandson and reading tweets from Trump as he was sending them.


7 posted on 04/01/2021 7:41:48 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: brownsfan
brownsfan :" In a few years, this country will be something no one in their right mind ever imagined it would become. "

Just like the Socialist utopia of Venezuela !
Long lines, no food, government takeover of anything financial, nationalize industry and "share the misery".

8 posted on 04/01/2021 7:43:28 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: brownsfan

One helluva toboggan ride. All most of us can do is wish to hang on tight to the most secure point that can be reached on the toboggan, and hope it does not go over a cliff on the way down.

Wish and hope sometimes fail. Most of the time, really.

Sometimes it is hard to distingu8ish pessimism from reality.


9 posted on 04/01/2021 7:43:46 AM PDT by alloysteel (¡Viva la Revolución! It worked for Castro....)
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To: Carl Vehse

RE: Hanson slips when he equates McCarthyism with “cancel culture” and the “Twitter Reign of Terror.”

And Joe McCarthy wasn’t entirely wrong either. He may have exaggerated the scope of the problem and targeted some innocent people, but not by much. The government was the workplace of perhaps 100 communist agents in the late 1940’s and early 50’s. He just didn’t know their names.

Many of those he wanted investigated were TRAITORS to this country. Some of these people engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union. They also manipulated U.S. foreign policy to the benefit of the communists.

For example, they maneuvered to cut off aid to the Chinese nationalists in order to betray China to the communists. This betrayal left mainland China in the hands of the Communists and the nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan.

More than 50 years later, the betrayal continues and is still in existence but it has now penetrated deep into the fabric of society - Hollywood, Sports, Technology, Education and even our government ( I am looking at folks like Eric Swalwell ).


10 posted on 04/01/2021 7:45:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

*** Long lines, no food, government takeover of anything financial, nationalize industry and “share the misery”. ***

Just as Harris promised, equity of outcome.


11 posted on 04/01/2021 7:46:04 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: alloysteel

“Sometimes it is hard to distingu8ish pessimism from reality.”

I am a pessimist I freely admit that. But I’m pretty good at observation.


12 posted on 04/01/2021 7:48:06 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: G Larry

If you don’t play along, it fails.

Sounds just looks how Hollywood and D.C got to be like it is.


13 posted on 04/01/2021 8:14:44 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Dems have us surrounded with the corrupted institutions of society and, by their control of the communications channels, bullied to hold our tongue. With the “Biden” administration, they’ve pulled the chain to flush America into their swamp of servitude and ideological conformity. We’re now circling the drain. If we simply flow down the drain, we’ll end up in the cistern where the Dems and the evil of the world that eggs them on are waiting to feast on the decomposing remains of a once great America.

Only if the drain somehow plugs up before we’re down the tubes, then maybe we’ll claw our way back to freedom, but it’ll be an awful sh*t show.


14 posted on 04/01/2021 8:26:10 AM PDT by Tellurian (2/4/2004: DARPA Lifelog terminated, Facebook initiated)
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To: Tellurian

Nice metaphor. As we’re being flushed away the Dems are also wiping their assess with the Constitution. A once profound and imposing document has become toilet paper.


15 posted on 04/01/2021 8:48:14 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: SeekAndFind
Virtue is bad.

Vice is good.

16 posted on 04/01/2021 8:55:03 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: brownsfan

17 posted on 04/01/2021 9:05:58 AM PDT by Kevmo (The tree of liberty is thirsty.)
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To: G Larry

Exactly right. Don’t Like the rules, then stop playing the game.

Millions of Americans are going along out of fear. I stopped watching the media 20 years ago and they have only gotten worse. They only speak when there is a lie to be told. What possible value is that in anyone’s life?

Stop wearing a mask. You don’t even have to be confrontational, but if the person has no authority to force you to wear one, ignore them.

Stop using goods and services of woke companies. You couldn’t get me on a major airline at gunpoint these days. I refuse to buy any apple products. Facebook? Who really needs it?


18 posted on 04/01/2021 9:07:07 AM PDT by hopespringseternal
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To: SeekAndFind
Formatted for clarity.

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

1) Money is a construct.

Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now.

As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.

2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore.

Joe Biden took an oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But,

If someone is carjacked, assaulted or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim’s fault as the perpetrator’s. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker.

How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.

3) Racialism is now acceptable.

4) The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen.

Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws. Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules.

Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine.

Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the “founders” than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.

5) Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.

6) Hypocrisy is passe. Virtue-signaling is alive.

The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.

7) Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.

8) McCarthyism is good.

9) Ignorance is preferable to knowledge.

10) Wokeness is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity.

Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.

The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.

19 posted on 04/01/2021 9:53:41 AM PDT by Bratch (The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time. - Louis L'Amour)
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To: Carl Vehse

similiar tactics. goal is different.

mccarthyism to protect constitution bad.

mccarthyism to destroy constitution good.


20 posted on 04/01/2021 10:20:23 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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