Our enemies are going to take advantage of out period of insanity and weakness.
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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.
Wow, that was a blistering take of the state of our country, and VDH is 100% right.
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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