[MtnClimber]

Leftists always wreck economies and societies.

[MtnClimber]

VDH ping

[SaveFerris]

(We are $31 trillion in collective debt)

Try over $204 trillion dollars with The National Debt and Unfunded Liabilities.

Any wonder the Godless Globalists want nuclear war and eating bugs?

When the USA goes down, so does much of the world 🌍.

[Tell It Right]

VDH’s column is chilling.

[Sicon]

We are approaching an historic 50 million residents who were not born in the United States

I'd bet it is a much higher number even than that.

[Sicon]

a once famously lawful America has become a veritable land of thieves

And many of them are our so-called "leaders".

[Ezekiel]

Victor Davis Hanson: so knowledgeable of history, yet the Moriarty of his generation.

So many negative waves so early in the morning. People eat this stuff up, following their favorite pied pipers for to procure their next fake food fix.

Evil: it's on every street corner. Pigeons in the park, fish in a barrel, or sand on the sea shore -- it takes zero skill to fill huge Hefty bags. So easy, a blind man could do it.

Good: it takes a little faith to find it, but the light of a 1000 suns it is. There's no going back to the dungeons of darkness, yet some people never learn.

The last 30 seconds of Rabbi Mendel Kessin's recent shiur:

You really have to appreciate Yaakov and Esav's story, because it is so pivotal to what's happening now. The fight between subduing evil and bringing down kedusha [holiness], the origins of Mashiach ben Yosef and Mashiach ben Dovid, you see.

And the two different jobs of Yaakov and Esav. I mean, all of this is with us today. But you have to really, really be fascinated with the way the Torah deals with this, that it can use one set of psukim -- verses -- to describe two different events. That's astounding.

***

"American Greatness"

What Is the Significance of King David's Harp?

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on!

The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The United States Army Field Band

(John Brown's Body)

He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true
He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through
They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew
But his soul goes marching on..

[Rummyfan]

Somehow, some way, this needs to be arrested and reversed.

[LouAvul]

What's the purpose of articles such as these? All doom and no solutions? The author is merely trying to sell copy?

The United States is at the precipice. We're staring into the abyss. What's next? Balkanization? Totalitarian control by mongrels who are demon possessed?

Whatever scenario, there is nothing that indicates our sinful, soulless nation has any hope.

Stupid liberals. Stupid libertarians. Stupid complacent republicans.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***We are witnessing the breakdown of basic norms essential for civilized life,***

There is a reason for it.

From the book Doctor Zhivago (Not the movie)

Yurii’s talk with Pogorevshikh on the train to Moscow...
Part 2, chapter 5: 16
Imperturbable as an oracle, he prophesied disastrous
upheavals in the near future. Yurii Andreievich inwardly agreed
that this was not unlikely, but the calm, authoritative tone in
which this unpleasant boy was making his forecasts angered
him.

“Just a moment,” he said hesitantly. “True, all this may happen.
But it seems to me that with all that’s going on — the chaos, the
disintegration, the pressure from the enemy — this is not the
moment to start dangerous experiments. The country must be
allowed to recover from one upheaval before plunging into
another. We must wait till at least relative peace and order are
restored.”

“That’s naive,” said Pogorevshikh. “What you call disorder is
just as normal a state of things as the order you’re so keen
about. All this destruction — it’s a natural and preliminary stage
of a broad creative plan. Society has not yet disintegrated
sufficiently. It must fall to pieces completely then a genuinely
revolutionary government will put the pieces together and build
on completely new foundations.”

[moovova]

I'm a yuge fan of VDH...but the last sentence of his essay is wrong:

"Yes, there is a lot of ruin in great nations. But even America is by now running low on it.

We have a LONG way to go. (See Ukraine.)

Besides...the shooting hasn't even started...

[BatGuano]

VDH, my favorite read....
He hits a home run, sadly, with “Our Parasitic Generation!”