Hansen is a scholar of the classics. He knows that the attitudes he describes were the same in ancient Greece , Rome and in the Persian empire. When the urban “elite” attitudes came to dominate in a culture, that culture declined and was ultimately replaced after a prolonged period of chaotic violence. In California the urban “elites” in alliance with foreign migrants from alien cultures have come to dominate at this stage politically. Their neo pagan values and practices, admit it or not, are transforming the culture. Much the same on the East Coast and urban enclaves throughout the country.
VDH is a native Californian.
Because conservatives live in the real world, while liberals live in fantasyland. Pretty simple.
I just noticed the other day that someone on FR has a tag line that says, “When empires die, they leave great monuments that peasants defecate in”, or something to that effect. How incredibly true.