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The American Descent Into Madness
Spectator World ^ | 07/20/21 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 07/21/2021 10:54:18 AM PDT by Dick Bachert

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1 posted on 07/21/2021 10:54:18 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert

If you read nothing else this year, you’d better read this by one of the smartest men on the planet or you may be a casualty in the inevitable, UNAVOIDABLE face-off just ahead.


2 posted on 07/21/2021 10:58:52 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert
Another great installment by VDH that will probably be part of a collection called The Decline and Fall of the United States of America
3 posted on 07/21/2021 11:01:09 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Bookmark


4 posted on 07/21/2021 11:05:30 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Dick Bachert

And he’s not even talking about the people we see at Wal-Mart and the people who say, “Poh-lise.”

They are on a whole other trajectory into crazy, but at least they are my people, and I love them.

The people Victor is talking about, I don’t care for.


5 posted on 07/21/2021 11:08:54 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: carriage_hill

Friday ping.


6 posted on 07/21/2021 11:09:45 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Dick Bachert

What kills me is that the other side thinks that WE are crazy and that WE are the problem. I think that they are tired of living in a land full of White Supremacists, and they are preparing a Final Solution to that problem.


7 posted on 07/21/2021 11:12:40 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794 …
No, VDH; nothing at all was abandoned.
8 posted on 07/21/2021 11:18:52 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Dick Bachert

Time to get the guns out.


9 posted on 07/21/2021 11:20:59 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: Dick Bachert

Bkmk


10 posted on 07/21/2021 11:22:15 AM PDT by JouleZ (You are the company you keep.)
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It’s good to see VDH outside of NR. NR ain’t anything like it was when WB started it.


11 posted on 07/21/2021 11:25:55 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Never forget who is responsible for the woke clown world we now live in.

Hint: it ain't Democrats.

The blame lies squarely with RINO-controlled state legislatures who refused to enforce voter ID and rolled over and allowed leftist entities to foist the cheat-by-mail-in ballots on the electorate. All because of their petty hatred of Trump. If these same legislatures had been controlled by Constitutional patriots, Trump would still be president and NONE of what the article mentions would be happening today.

If the 2020 Steal is not enough to vote out every RINO who must face a primary in 2022, then we are truly doomed. Only a RINO purge will save us.

2022 is literally our last chance.

12 posted on 07/21/2021 11:26:07 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Dick Bachert
I agree. Hanson is the real deal. He is a great man, in the mold of Thomas Jefferson--farmer, scholar, patriot. This article you posted hits it out of the ballpark.

13 posted on 07/21/2021 11:30:03 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration." — Thomas Edison)
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The outcome of the French revolution is a cautionary tail for all idealists to review before taking action.

That said, if the course doesn’t change I don’t see anyway to avoid another decent into madness that will change the socio-political landscape of the U.S. and likely the world.


14 posted on 07/21/2021 11:30:17 AM PDT by Outlaw76 (The * in front of *Biden denotes the fraudulent election.)
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To: Dick Bachert

VDH is a good one.


15 posted on 07/21/2021 11:39:35 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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“…to galvanize opinion against loudmouth unpopular presidents like Harry Truman, Richard Nixon or Donald Trump.”

I guess VDH was being sarcastic here? All three were very popular.


16 posted on 07/21/2021 11:40:13 AM PDT by enumerated
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"These iconic moments may be unrepresentative of reality..."

This is one of the most brilliant articles by VDH. Although I agree with it nearly in its totality, I do not agree with the above quoted phrase. These so-called iconic moments are not unrepresentative of reality. They are reality. They are the reality we are all living through in the present. Those of us opposed to the Communists in our midst somehow need to turn the tide soon, because time is running out on our great Republic.

17 posted on 07/21/2021 11:59:49 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right...)
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Dr. Hansen once again shines a light on the dark underbelly of freedom. There are elements of society that have neither the mentality nor the instinct to benefit humankind. Yet they are free to leech our nation’s underpinnings white.


18 posted on 07/21/2021 12:03:17 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground - Mencken)
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To: Dick Bachert

From the article:

“Inflation is a mere construct

We used to know what inflation was, its pernicious role in past civilizations, and how to combat it. The danger of worthless currency is a staple of classical literature from Aristophanes to Procopius. The scary fact is not just that we are destroying the value of our money — the exploding price of gas, food, appliances, lumber, power, and housing are overwhelming even Joe Biden’s entitlement machine — but that we are constructing pseudoeconomics to justify the nihilism.

Right now, we witness a multitrillion-dollar fight over borrowing beyond our $30 trillion debt to build ‘infrastructure’, a word that has been expanded to include mostly anything but roads and bridges. What exactly is so liberal about the farmworker paying $5 a gallon for gas to commute to the fields, the small contractor doing a remodeling job with plywood at $80 a sheet or the young couple whose loan qualification is always a month behind the soaring price of a new home?”

Where was this guy when our Dim-and-CINO-controlled Congress ran up the federal deficit to $1 trillion even before the pandemic? We need to elect only those who walk the walk on fiscal responsibility. The Republican Party abandoned that principle long ago.


19 posted on 07/21/2021 12:16:41 PM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: enumerated

YEP!


20 posted on 07/21/2021 12:32:38 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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