[Louis Foxwell]

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[American in Israel]

Just... wow. Thank you for the ping.

[nathanbedford]

Greenfield is done a good job of describing a state of affairs and examining some of its causes. He could have done it all in one phrase: Critical Theory.

He cites the 1619 New York Times attempt to rewrite American history but the effort is only an application of Critical Theory, an example of an attempt to vitiate the legitimacy of the nation. Critical Theory and The Frankfurt School have explicitly undertaken to bring down the American system by attacking its institutions one by one. We have seen the undermining of church, school, marriage, military, media. These are only a few of the important institutions the bear virtually no resemblance to those institutions of my youth bearing the same names.

I accept Greenfield's remedy, return power to the people but he also notes the propaganda is a significant problem and the efforts of The Frankfurt School are the most dangerous and pervasive kind of propaganda that has insinuated itself into the American psyche rendering reform all the more elusive.

[DuncanWaring]

“Congress enjoys the trust of 1 in 10 Americans.”

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Yet 90+ percent of all congressmen who run for reelection succeed.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[okie 54]

The biggest credibility crisis the USA faces today is the Democrat party and their treasonous ideals

[marktwain]

This is one of Greenfield’s best.

It is excellent in both its analysis and its writing.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I for one now have ZERO faith in our intel agencies or the FBI.

Compromised, cronyized, corrupt. With access to powerful tools that make them dangerous. They need to be dismantled.

[Rockingham]

Why would any contemporary American institution voluntarily give up power? For the sake of the country? In the 1940s through the mid-1960s, that would have been plausible due to the American public's sense of shared sacrifice and struggle during WW II, Korea, and the Cold War, but not after the wave of mass immigration and constant Leftist teaching against America that began in the 1960s.

Downsizing and institutional reforms will instead take place due to inescapable financial pressure and loss of customers. Higher education is beginning to feel the pinch as students and their parents wake up to the poor value for many of a college degree. Meanwhile, Democrat-run cities and states are beginning to be squeezed by emigration due to high taxes and out of control pay, benefit, and pension costs.

Watch for a wave of crisis cutbacks and bankruptcy filings in the next recession as hard-pressed state and local governments get cut off from the credit market. Even universities will feel the pinch as money-savvy students turn to online college degree courses, job apprenticeships, and skills certifications.

Of course, if Democrats are in power nationally, they will have the federal government write checks to rescue struggling state and local governments, higher education, and other institutional allies without requiring adequate reforms. Yet that cannot last because of the gross inequity of helping the improvident and feckless at the expense of the prudent and responsible.

[subterfuge]

Walter Cronkite was a communist.

[Wonder Warthog]

Excellent!!!! Truly the most insightful (and shortest) exposition of our societal problem I have yet seen. Geniu!!