Posted on 07/19/2021 5:17:40 PM PDT by BusterDog
In the last six months, we have seen absurdities never quite witnessed in modern America. Madness, not politics, defines it. There are three characteristics of all these upheavals. One, the events are unsustainable. They will either cease or they will destroy the nation, at least as we know it. Two, the law has largely been rendered meaningless. Three, left-wing political agendas justify any means necessary to achieve them.
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Oh, more than six months.
Still, at some point since Lawrence v Texas all the comedy and satire of the past became the present’s “Hold my beer!” and it isn’t turning out to be funny. Not one jot.
Frankly, Monty Python was not intended to be a How To guide.
bkmk
Great article and as always, verbose scholarship at its finest.
I seem to know a lot of people who think it’s all fine. Nothing odd. Nothing different. This year, pretty much like every year. It’s a big Yawn, and, you know, no mean tweets from BadOrangeMan, so it’s good.
But a change is gonna come.
He’s going to be on Newsmax with Steve Cortes tonight to talk about it even more.
“I seem to know a lot of people who think it’s all fine. Nothing odd. Nothing different. This year, pretty much like every year. It’s a big Yawn, and, you know, no mean tweets from BadOrangeMan, so it’s good.”
*****
Normalcy bias and denial, to put it kindly, but you could also just say, “stupid.”
This is exactly what is going on. An entire nation’s descent into madness. Lord of the Flies writ large.
Our current troubles are the definitive end state of democracy...ochlocracy.
And it ALWAYS results in the end of a republic.
There is no way out.
Man! Ever so often I want to go out and burn up 50 rds of ammo to make sure I can still hit what I aim at! But with An entire nation’s descent into madness I am afraid I may need it at a worse time!
Wish I had the 400 rds of M2 Ball I shot up last year before the ammo drought.
We can, and probably will, do much worse than selecting VDH as the next leader of the sane half of this leaderless nation, assuming, of course, that President Trump does not regain his rightful position as the only legitimately elected President of the last misbegotten election.
https://www.hoover.org/profiles/victor-davis-hanson
Today’s version of “Keep your powder dry” I guess.
VDH is always great but we all see the problem and where it came from. How to end it is the question.
victor davis hanson ping
“...to galvanize opinion against loudmouth unpopular presidents like Harry Truman, Richard Nixon, or Donald Trump.”
Donald Trump unpopular? Trump got more votes in an even stolen election than in any other presidential election in history. Sets unheard attendance numbers at his rallies? Can anyone explain why Hanson had this brain-fart in an otherwise brilliant essay?
Hang on tight.
L
Carl Jung noted in the early thirties that the greatest threat to humanity is mass psychosis and that human populations can succumb to a state where mental illness becomes the norm rather than the exception resulting in what he termed a ‘psychic epidemic’ but psychotic epidemic might be more accurate.
I do not own or watch TV.
Insanity has become a business
And Brother
Business is Boomin !
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