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Imagine the Unimaginable
American Greatness ^ | 11 May, 2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/12/2022 4:52:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people, face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous—as we’ll see over the next few months.

Americans are now entering uncharted, revolutionary territory. They may witness things over the next five months that once would have seemed unimaginable.

Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.

In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader Vladimir Putin now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war.

A 79-year-old Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be removed from power.

SNIP

What happened?

Remember all these catastrophes are self-induced. They are choices, not fate. The United States has the largest combined gas, coal, and oil deposits in the world. It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and to ensure the cleanest energy development on the planet.

Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. He kept printing trillions of dollars for short-term political advantage, incentivizing labor nonparticipation, and keeping interest rates at historical lows—at a time of pent-up global demand.

The administration wanted no border. Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty at the ballot box.

Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories—“modern monetary theory,” critical legal theory, critical race theory—now dominate policymaking in the Biden Administration.

The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism. Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.

Is not that the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from 18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: communism; control; power; socialism; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 05/12/2022 4:52:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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I am sure they will try to steal the mid-term elections. They got away with it last time and they will be more bold this time. I expect another “Summer of Love”.


2 posted on 05/12/2022 4:52:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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And COVID returning.


3 posted on 05/12/2022 4:58:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: MtnClimber

Winter is coming.


4 posted on 05/12/2022 5:01:01 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

“I am sure they will try to steal the mid-term elections”

Of course. They must in order to complete the changeover.
If successful in 2022 & 2024, I suspect the next big thing will be to outlaw opposition parties.
Sound familiar?


5 posted on 05/12/2022 5:03:48 AM PDT by Tupelo (Don't underestimate The Republican Party's ability to f*ck things up)
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The left stole two house majorities, one senate and one one presidential election in the last four years. Every two years since 2016 we have seen a geometric increase in the left’s national election fraud. No one has been indicted or even investigated over any of this. Why wouldn’t the left continue to increase its level of fraud to the point where they increase their DC “majorities” in 2022? Hell, even Trump has been gaslighted about the theft of his ‘20 victory. I believe representative government in America is dead. The ballot box no longer works against the DC swamp regime.


6 posted on 05/12/2022 5:18:29 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Tupelo

Or they’ll distribute pre-marked ballots ... “For the convenience of the voter”.


7 posted on 05/12/2022 5:24:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: MtnClimber

I always appreciate VDH, but I don’t need him to tell me to ‘imagine’ anything…
….we’re in the middle of this nightmare……and pray we wake up on the sunny side of this!

Every day Biden, et al get more nauseating, more disgusting, more pathetic, more outrageous……..more, just more


8 posted on 05/12/2022 5:27:15 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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“...They got away with it last time ...”

Right-but I think it's been going on for a very long time, even for decades!

The Kennedy election was certainly bought and paid for by Joe Kennedy, that half Nazi womanizer.

MANY Democrat politicians have benefited from gross irregularities of the election process and from colossal amounts of money thrown at criminals, to assure a ‘win’ It answers our constant questions about, "How could that ignorant, treasonous Liberal (fill in the blank) get into office?"

9 posted on 05/12/2022 5:37:30 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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Yes, that is becoming so obvious now


10 posted on 05/12/2022 6:00:01 AM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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“Ruling elites would rather be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically incorrect, successful, and popular.”.... they will not be able to steal the coming elections, the demcoratic party is an abject failure.. They may try to steal it but their means to do so have been detected and eyes will be watching in places it matters. They dont have enough organic popularity to succeed.


11 posted on 05/12/2022 6:07:01 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

2 Chronicles 7:14


12 posted on 05/12/2022 6:09:23 AM PDT by InkStone (Omni Vivum Ex Surfboard)
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Right on target.

All that Victor has stated here has occurred to me also and, I'm sure, to all honest, intelligent adults.

13 posted on 05/12/2022 6:31:07 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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Try to find the United States in Daniel or the Revelation of John. Third temple is the only hold up...


14 posted on 05/12/2022 6:41:41 AM PDT by Liberty Tree Surgeon
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To: MtnClimber
The Supreme Court justices dealt the USA a severe injury--possibly a mortal blow--when they refused to examine the evidence of massive fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election.

They failed their duty. They failed the American People. They failed the USA. They failed the world. They failed themselves.

They are not solely to blame for the tragic destruction of the USA which Victor Hanson describes, but an honest and thorough examination of the evidence revealing the truth, whatever that might be, would have saved the American People immeasurable uncertainty and loss of confidence in the integrity of the US government, its institutions, and its leaders, a lack of confidence which is an important factor in the destruction Hanson describes.

15 posted on 05/12/2022 6:59:29 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Saints are sinners who never gave up. --St. Theresa of Avila)
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The fact this is coming from Victor Davis Hanson (the calmest guy on the planet) scares the Hell out of me.


16 posted on 05/12/2022 11:02:08 AM PDT by moovova
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So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing, cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely violent demonstrations in our streets this summer.

I've been saying the same, though not as eloquently as VDH. Fasten your seatbelts folks, the Dems aren't going to go down in November w/o burning the place down.

17 posted on 05/12/2022 11:06:47 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

bump


18 posted on 05/12/2022 12:34:26 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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I am sure they will try to steal the mid-term elections.

With so many Biden "voters" in the last one, no one stands a chance against that bloc. I mean, he's the most popular president (by "voters" anyway) there has ever been.
19 posted on 05/13/2022 12:06:33 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: Savage Beast

When the SCOTUS said that President Trump had no standing when he was the republican candidate, I knew the fix was in.


20 posted on 05/13/2022 2:44:35 PM PDT by Texas resident ( Let's Go Brandon)
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