Posted on 04/10/2023 4:58:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we can address while ignoring the existential we know we no longer can solve.
The last few weeks, the world had been writing off the United States as either crazy or irrelevant as it watches America cannibalize itself.
Friends tremble at our sudden decline. Enemies rejoice. Neutrals make the necessary adjustments to join the ascendant non-American side.
The symptoms of our decline abroad appear everywhere. The more Joe Biden brags about the crippling oil sanctions on Russia, friends like India and allies like Japan ignore them. And why not, when Biden has no idea how long the war in Ukraine will last, or how much wherewithal the United States can, should, or will give Kyiv, or how its on-to-Red-Square blank check will finally end?
Big Biden talks about more solar and wind farms, and green new deals won’t fill the gas tanks in Munich or heat the homes of Kyoto, or lower the price of imported oil in the United Kingdom. Claiming the Afghanistan mess was a success fools no one.
Allies ask who are our leaders. An impaired Joe Biden who never is quite sure where he is, what he is doing, or whom he is with?
Kamala Harris, whose only interests appear to be demagoguing racial and social tensions with a shrinking vocabulary?
Senator John Fetterman (D-Penn.), who was elected on the argument it was unkind not to vote for a candidate who was physically and mentally impaired?
Energy Department kingpin Sam Brinton, the cross-dresser in lipstick, now charged with felonies for stealing women’s luggage at airport carousels?
Pete Buttigieg, our transportation secretary, who virtue signals melodramas of the past when he is clueless how to fix crises in the present?
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
Our enemies are going to take advantage of out period of insanity and weakness.
VDH ping
Problem is this is not just our “period of insanity”. What is happening now is “worldwide insanity” which we are at the head of as we bully our way across the globe while the destruction proceeds at a fast pace at home.
If the bullying across the globe was actually something that brought good, that would be one thing. Instead it brings death, perversion, and hate.
Our enemies are going to take advantage of out period of insanity and weakness.
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Nothing new about that. The populace decides to make
changes and has done so since the beginning of time.
Be they good, bad or indifferent time always tells.
Life goes on till dead do us part.
So, deterring Russian aggression against Europe is now bullying across the globe?
That is a stretch even for a neo isolationist alarmist
Only America could destroy America and it has. I see no chance of return to anything like we knew in the 50s, 60s and 70s USA. That chance of return is as dead as Julius Caesar. Sad for America, scary for the world.
I would even add the 1980s as that was also a great decade for the USA.
Wow, that was a blistering take of the state of our country, and VDH is 100% right.
BTTT
I sent that to all (or most of) my friends and family.
Are you that ignorant that you are unable to see that Russia and Ukraine are not the only places we are doing this?
Some of you Biden Zeepers can’t see anything past the Ukraine nonsense.
VDH nails it, again.
bkmk
VDH excellent writer and honest .
VOTE DEMOCRATS OUT !!!
We fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we can address, while ignoring the existential we know we no longer can solve. What else rises to America’s fiddling attention as the world burns up abroad? ...
So America suffers the sins of omission—squabbling over the nonessential—and commission—losing wars, going broke, ruining its economy, flirting with civil war. We know these are all self-inflicted wounds. But apparently, we believe their remedies are worse than the original maladies. And so we fixate only on the irrelevant that we think we can address while ignoring the existential we know we no longer can solve.
The world is terrified and stunned at the result—and increasingly looking elsewhere to non-American solutions.
Simply an excellent essay by Professor Hanson - maybe one of his best - bringing up questions that haunt the modern US.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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VDH should be Secretary of Education.
Got that right!
But how many in Congress, or the administration, with all their vaunted degrees from Ivy schools, would even have the vocabulary to understand his writings?
Could you imagine how lost AOC and others would be, if Prof Hanson had a discussion with Sen Cruz on the floor of Congress?
Would be straight out of the 1800’s!
I don’t know how he does it. VDH’s mind puts it all out there time after time after time, clearly telling the truth about what is happening in our country.
I watch and listen to him on talk shows and he seems to have a little trouble enunciating, getting his words out. But put a pen in his hand ( or a keyboard), and he is a Master of communication.
He clearly has his finger on the pulse of this country.
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