Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Victor Davis Hanson: Are We in a Revolution and Don’t Even Know It?
American Greatness ^ | 8/15/2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/16/2021 9:05:36 PM PDT by LibWhacker

Edited on 08/16/2021 9:48:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them.

The collective madness that ensued from the pandemic, the quarantine, the self-induced recession, the George Floyd killing and subsequent months of exempted riots, the election year, and the resurgence of variants of the Chinese-engineered coronavirus, all ignited the fuse of formerly inert socialist dynamite. And the ensuing explosion of revolutionary fervor in just a few months has made America almost unrecognizable.


(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; america; anarchotyranny; bananarepublic; biden; border; civilization; communism; communists; dystopia; economy; energy; labor; marxist; nomenklatura; policestate; privateproperty; revolution; socialism; unrecognizable; vdh
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last
To: LibWhacker

Mr Hanson- They are playing it by the book:

“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded toreality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they
are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become
evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”

Written by Theodore Dalrymple


21 posted on 08/16/2021 10:58:38 PM PDT by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

The headline should be a statement of fact, not asked as a question that’s debatable.


22 posted on 08/16/2021 11:01:52 PM PDT by SpaceBar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

What have the republic-nts done about VOTER FRAUD? NOTHING.


23 posted on 08/16/2021 11:19:40 PM PDT by Captainpaintball
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Captainpaintball

Why they have done the same thing that they have done about the political prisoners/peaceful Trump supporters being denied basic rights in DC prison... That is to say- exactly nothing


24 posted on 08/16/2021 11:21:54 PM PDT by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: qaz123

Idiotic leftist Americans are getting a lesson now as the pain hits them Stupid fools.


25 posted on 08/16/2021 11:27:42 PM PDT by WMarshal (The Pleasant American )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

Excellent post by VDH.

We have been in a revolution for some time and our side is getting annihilated.


26 posted on 08/16/2021 11:51:02 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker
Most Extensive Voter Fraud Machine in History
27 posted on 08/17/2021 12:04:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NoLibZone

It’s already $6 in parts of the country.


28 posted on 08/17/2021 12:23:35 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

Bookmark for a stellar article.


29 posted on 08/17/2021 1:40:44 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Later


30 posted on 08/17/2021 2:29:47 AM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

thanks for posting


31 posted on 08/17/2021 3:17:41 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fungi

There’s nothing to be done, and the left knows it. We can’t vote our way out of this, they control the ballot box. We can’t talk our way out of this, they control the soap box. We don’t have the moral mandate to shoot our way out of this, the ammo box is ready but the media will paint anyone trying to use it as an extremist. The founding fathers were considered extremists by the crown. The majority of Americans will sit quietly so long as their AC works, they have Internet, and their phones still connect.


32 posted on 08/17/2021 3:32:03 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: WMarshal
Idiotic leftist Americans are getting a lesson now as the pain hits them Stupid fools.

From personal interaction with them, I don't think they are getting a lesson; or at the very least it's being wasted on them. The ones I have the misfortune to interact with can't seem to put 2+2 together an see that their choices are the reason these bad things are happening. It's always some other reason, which miraculously never has anything to do with their actions. In fact nothing bad that happens in the world, or their personal lives has anything to do with their actions. It's always someone else's fault.

33 posted on 08/17/2021 4:18:21 AM PDT by Turbo Pig ('to close with and destroy the enemy")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Brooklyn Attitude

No he has been talking about this for years. He is talking to the audience.


34 posted on 08/17/2021 4:24:11 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: GreyHoundSailor
They have a brain, but public education has been dominated by teacher's unions for fifty years, and unions are socialist. This was communist Russia's goal, viz. to get control of our public schools in order to destroy the virtues of Americans. School children have been brainwashed by trashy socialist teachers for fifty years.

They (communists) told us they were going to do it, we entered it into the Congressional Record ('63?), but we let them do it anyway.

It's on us.

35 posted on 08/17/2021 4:47:55 AM PDT by LouAvul (Lying headlines from fake news articles written by pimps masquerading as journalists.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Bob434

Great quote!


36 posted on 08/17/2021 5:08:09 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

I had trouble with your link: = here’s another one:

https://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=13716

Great post

“Institutions are being absorbed not just by the woke apparat, but by an array of ideologies that seeks to destroy them.”


37 posted on 08/17/2021 6:04:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our incompetent military brass needs to spend less time reading Marx and more time doing their jobs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: WMarshal

I hope they feel it 1000 fold more than the rest of us.

Of course I know a way for that too happen but it would never be allowed.


38 posted on 08/17/2021 6:19:09 AM PDT by qaz123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: LibWhacker

VDH is like a balm- even when discussing the awful spectacle we’re watching just to know someone still thinks and writes this way is a comfort.


39 posted on 08/17/2021 6:28:38 AM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Fungi

“...the George Floyd killing...”

Sadly, VDH either lies or is pushing the lie.

According to the medical examiner, George Floyd died from a massive self-induced drug overdose of fentanyl, meth & cocaine.

George Floyd was NOT killed.

Is VDH going to start shouting “Hands up, don’t shoot”?


40 posted on 08/17/2021 6:37:49 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson