Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?

New York Post ^ | October 4, 2021 | Victor Davis Hanson

[billorites]

Over the last two years, progressive critics have casually attacked the origins, nature and values of American society. Is the idea of America so indestructible that it can weather any assault?

The foundational dates of America — the signing in 1776 of the Declaration of Independence and in 1787 of the Constitution — have been attacked. Citizens are now asked to believe that they have no inspirational or historical value.

Statues of the American luminaries have been defaced or toppled. Names on schools and monuments are obliterated.

The Soviet-like erasures do not just involve Confederate generals. Often the Founders, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson — along with Civil-War-era luminaries such as Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln — are damned from our memories. Their common crimes are believing in the American ideal.

“Critical Race Theory” argues America can presently discriminate to atone for past discrimination. And it can practice racism to fight prior racism — amid a multiracial democracy of competing tribal interests. In just a few months, our elites have completely jettisoned the centuries-long aspiration — energized by Martin Luther King, Jr. — of a racially blind America.

“Critical Legal Theory” believes that laws are merely the biased constructs of the rich and powerful. They purportedly lack any grounding in the natural law of keeping order and reflecting innately human morality. Spiraling violence in the streets of major American cities is now the offspring of such pop theorizing.

“New monetary theory” recklessly insists that printing money will not cause inflation and expenditures do not have to correlate with revenues. Do such charlatans remember 1930s Germany, 1970s America or contemporary Venezuela?

The US military helter-skelter fled Afghanistan, abandoning thousands of Afghan allies and hundreds of US citizens and green card holders. A military that holds

[Jonty30]

It takes a lot more effort to repair than it takes to tear it apart.

Non-progressive Americans have to fight for every seat like their lives depend on it, from President to dog catcher.

[Bonemaker]

“Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?”

Not without hitting back harder and more ruthlessly.

[Little Ray]

No. We can’t survive.

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

CS Lewis

That applies to us today even more that it did in Lewis’ time. As a son suffers for absence of a father, so a nation will suffer for having his icons and history destroyed.

[R0CK3T]

Americans? Sure we can survive. Not too sure though about the Marxist Socialists will once they incite armed conflict.

[Analogisbetter]

Keep that thought! We need high energy and anger right now, not defeatism.

[Jim Noble]

Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?

If it can't, then those values were worthless to begin with.

[brownsfan]

No. Not with an all in, complicit media, and an ignorant, indoctrinated public.

Not enough of us to stop them.

[DarthVader]

+1000!

[PIF]

Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?

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Yes ... as soon as the 2020 election is fixed ... else it just the old frogs in a pot business.

[frnewsjunkie]

If we had a party in congress who was active and fighting for their voters and their country.. we could.

But the dead party sits doing nothing...

We have to do it for them.. and remove them ASAP.

[frog in a pot]

Not too sure though about the Marxist Socialists will once they incite armed conflict.

They will have the military, more efficient organization and communications, the "secret police", our coerced, intimidated neighbors and they will control the most efficient means of production and distribution of essential daily goods and medical services, to name just a few.

History suggests they would be likely to survive for decades, perhaps beyond lifetimes of our families. But the sooner we employ an effective political party in opposition, the more likely we will be able to avoid that scenario. And, we are coming from way behind.

[Kevmo]

“America” can survive but our REPUBLIC died when the Supreme Court refused to do its job and rule on the ineligibility of an obviously faked birth certificate fraudulent document towards the presidency of the USA in Berg vs. Obama. They ruled that NO ONE in America had standing.

Hence, we officially became an oligarchy and we’ve been experiencing the death throes of that lethal blow ever since.

Like Rome, the remnants of its republic survived in decaying edifices in vestigial form when it became an Empire officially starting the day that Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon river with his army, starting a civil war.

[Da Coyote]

Only if “not progressives” (the producing class) attack the progressive means of life.
Not kidding.

[Kevmo]

Not enough of us to stop them.
***Then the answer is a peaceful divorce. From my home page:

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Secession

It's time for us to jettison those who reject our national values because there's no changing them. Time to secede.

We should extend the invitation to secede on a county by county basis.

While we're at it, since we'd be forming a new country, we should extend the invitation to counties in Canada and Mexico as well.

Note that this option is becoming increasingly popular.
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[SuperLuminal]

"Can America survive progressives’ attacks on its origins and values?

Not so far...
Nothing new or recent about these attacks by the communists among us...
Been going on since the 1960's and no one has ever done anything about it...
95% of the sheeple don't care...

They never will care as long as richardheads keep referring to the communists by their fake designations like: "progressive", "leftist", "liberal", or "democrat"...
The true political progenitors for these (now phony) designations have long since gone to ground temperature or have been subsumed by Marxist/communist ideology...

[bankwalker]

even "communist", like "capitalist", is a fake designation ... invented by Marx himself.

I think "collectivist" might be more accurate, but I'm open to suggestions.

[DeweyCA]

FTA: American citizenship requires a viable middle class, constant civic education, secure borders, a common identity, control over unelected bureaucrats, a fealty to the Constitution and some awareness that global norms are often antithetical to an exceptional America.

America is history’s aberration. Those now trying to tear it down are the same familiar suspects over the last 2,500 years, who despise consensual government and the middle classes who preserve it.

VDH is right. America has been an aberration. Self-proclaimed elitists, throughout history, have felt that they are entitled to rule over others. The same is true of leftist elitists today. They have captured the main means of communication (media, academia) and so they are pumping their perverted values into the general populace. The requirements that VDH lists are being swept away. How much more of this can America stand?

[sourcery]

The left hopes that the answer is “no.” Deconstructing individualist liberty, in favor of collective faux-liberty, is their agenda.

[PubliusMM]

Survive? Certainly not, if we don’t fight back at every turn.