Posted on 03/03/2022 1:03:37 PM PST by Chickensoup
US EDITION OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST MAGAZINE RUSSIA Putin understands America’s moral decay He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
March 2, 2022 | 10:06 pm Putin (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) Written by:
Gilbert T. Sewall Facebook Twitter Last October, Vladimir Putin aired a speech to the Russian nation chiding the United States for its moral decay. He observed an America “blotting out whole pages” of its history, pursuing “reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities,” and renouncing time-honored values in an effort at “public renewal.”
“It’s their right, but we are asking them to steer clear of our home,” he warned. “We have a different viewpoint.” This iteration of family values and conservative critique went barely noticed by the American press at the time.
Comparing current social chaos in the US to 1917 Russia, Putin declared that “the fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity,” resulting in thought controls that are sometimes “tighter and stricter than what the Department of Propaganda of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee did.” The perverse desire to “eliminate the whole notion of men and women,” and to insist that children believe this, he concluded, comes close to a “crime against humanity.”
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Putin and Xi know. After decades of coercive, doctrinaire multiculturalism, abundant sexual follies, and anti-white calumny, the US has arrived as an aggregation of races, ethnicities and social classes that have little in common and that don’t like each other much.
Both Russia’s and China’s leadership think the West’s reigning spirit is at best unsteady and frivolous, and at worst depraved; either way it’s a disposition to discourage in their own societies. Even Hollywood’s and Silicon Valley’s power brokers must be privately amazed as to how easy it is to control childlike minds with buzzy ads, electronic games, and emotive news, a manufactured world of celebrity, dreams and magic.
Putin and Xi must laugh like jackals when Yahoo “news” features “comedian” Chelsea Handler, the pride of Martha’s Vineyard and Bel-Air, “skiing topless with a joint in one hand and drink in the other.” She’s celebrating her forty-seventh birthday, plugging her 2022 national tour, “Horny and Vaccinated.” They do not see Chelsea as kicky or fun. From Jeff Koons’s $97 million “Rabbit” to the freakish Sam Brinton, nuclear wastes overseer, the American surrender to morbidity must appear to both heads of state proof-positive of stage-four terminal capitalism.
Putin is a cold-blooded realist, untouched by smiley-face politics, with memories of 18th-century empire, still stewing over Soviet reversals. His authoritarian, highly nationalistic style and assertive foreign policy seek to rebuild the Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, not reestablish Soviet ideology. What he must think when America’s vice president, Kamala Harris, announces, “We won’t be silent about race. We won’t be silent about sexual orientation. We won’t be silent about immigrant’s rights. These are the very issues that define our identity as Americans.”
Americans at the top and the bottom of the social pyramid detest — or feel complete indifference toward — the nation’s classical, Christian, and Anglo-European foundations. Talk of commonwealth and common culture are rhetorical flourishes that inspire only the innocent and naive. We’re all in this together, go the jingles, but we’re not, not right now, least of all the woke plutocrats and their allies who see opportunity in wrecking old authorities.
The fish rots from its head. The New York Times’s 1619 Project calls for “reframing” American history and civics as the story of white supremacy and black subjection. Domestic terrorist-turned-sage Angela Davis comes to Andover to tell the nation’s future leaders they are being schooled on stolen land. Episcopalian bishops, Harvard deans, Ford Foundation executives, and Met curators climb onboard the crazy train, as style dictates. Holland Cotter over at the Times — on the day the US folded in Afghanistan — wondered whether “historic works of art can be considered exempt from modern moral scrutiny,” condemning “gender-based power plays” in Titian and Veronese’s mythical allegories.
First goes the culture. That’s before things get rough. Restitution and reparations, do understand, are code for future expropriations and forced wealth transfers. With barely concealed greed, agents of dispossession stand ready to confiscate ill-gotten gains of historical exploiters, and do so from a position of moral authority.
The functional, well-adjusted, and normative give up, flee, or seek enclaves where they and their children can be secure, where streets are clean and neighbors are civil, and where schools teach basic academics unencumbered by anti-white or anti-American feeling. Despised yeomen acquiesce in their lost status, or turn in vain to Donald J. Trump for salvation. Half of the nation resists deracination. The other half turns it into a mission.
What feels edgy and liberating at the top gets rank and seedy fast in slums and backwaters, the grim places where big trucks and beaten-up RVs are parked on the neighbor’s lawn. At a time in the nation’s history when almost one of two newborns is born out of wedlock, insisting on firm family ideals is politically impossible.
The insensate and criminal are not just a few vagrants and sociopaths, living in shadows, facing universal pity and contempt. The welfare state has been feeding clients and their children for three or four generations, and its subsidies have not produced a better, stronger people grateful for their nation’s largesse and security.
No doubt Russia and China have plenty of their own domestic problems, possibly so crushing that the West will persevere. But to those countries’ ruling classes, life is cheap and rights are thin. An icy realism, tempered by experience, prevails in ways few Americans can or want to understand.
Testing Western resolve is bound to continue. Putin and Xi know their rivals are poorly positioned politically and psychologically to confront austerity or force, the Ukraine invasion being one early probe into geopolitical power. For now, it’s chilling to think that Putin and Xi might perceive America’s internal weaknesses more clearly than most of the nation’s own ruling class.
By Gilbert T. Sewall
March 2, 2022 | 10:06 pm Putin (Photo by MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images) Written by:
Gilbert T. Sewall Facebook Twitter Last October, Vladimir Putin aired a speech to the Russian nation chiding the United States for its moral decay. He observed an America “blotting out whole pages” of its history, pursuing “reverse discrimination against the majority in the interests of minorities,” and renouncing time-honored values in an effort at “public renewal.”
“It’s their right, but we are asking them to steer clear of our home,” he warned. “We have a different viewpoint.” This iteration of family values and conservative critique went barely noticed by the American press at the time.
Comparing current social chaos in the US to 1917 Russia, Putin declared that “the fight for equality and against discrimination turns into an aggressive dogmatism on the brink of absurdity,” resulting in thought controls that are sometimes “tighter and stricter than what the Department of Propaganda of the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee did.” The perverse desire to “eliminate the whole notion of men and women,” and to insist that children believe this, he concluded, comes close to a “crime against humanity.”
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America’s long history of sitting out Russian invasions Pro-Ukraine citizens clash with authorities in Georgia In Lviv, the mood is inspiring — and fanatical The Russian Orthodox Church eyes Ukraine The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq The Chinese government likewise observes rapid deterioration in Western societies, an increase in racial discord, rising crime rates, family breakdown, vandalism, and political extremism that it believes results from an excess of individual freedom.
Putin and Xi know. After decades of coercive, doctrinaire multiculturalism, abundant sexual follies, and anti-white calumny, the US has arrived as an aggregation of races, ethnicities and social classes that have little in common and that don’t like each other much.
Both Russia’s and China’s leadership think the West’s reigning spirit is at best unsteady and frivolous, and at worst depraved; either way it’s a disposition to discourage in their own societies. Even Hollywood’s and Silicon Valley’s power brokers must be privately amazed as to how easy it is to control childlike minds with buzzy ads, electronic games, and emotive news, a manufactured world of celebrity, dreams and magic.
Putin and Xi must laugh like jackals when Yahoo “news” features “comedian” Chelsea Handler, the pride of Martha’s Vineyard and Bel-Air, “skiing topless with a joint in one hand and drink in the other.” She’s celebrating her forty-seventh birthday, plugging her 2022 national tour, “Horny and Vaccinated.” They do not see Chelsea as kicky or fun. From Jeff Koons’s $97 million “Rabbit” to the freakish Sam Brinton, nuclear wastes overseer, the American surrender to morbidity must appear to both heads of state proof-positive of stage-four terminal capitalism.
Putin is a cold-blooded realist, untouched by smiley-face politics, with memories of 18th-century empire, still stewing over Soviet reversals. His authoritarian, highly nationalistic style and assertive foreign policy seek to rebuild the Russian sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, not reestablish Soviet ideology. What he must think when America’s vice president, Kamala Harris, announces, “We won’t be silent about race. We won’t be silent about sexual orientation. We won’t be silent about immigrant’s rights. These are the very issues that define our identity as Americans.”
Americans at the top and the bottom of the social pyramid detest — or feel complete indifference toward — the nation’s classical, Christian, and Anglo-European foundations. Talk of commonwealth and common culture are rhetorical flourishes that inspire only the innocent and naive. We’re all in this together, go the jingles, but we’re not, not right now, least of all the woke plutocrats and their allies who see opportunity in wrecking old authorities.
The fish rots from its head. The New York Times’s 1619 Project calls for “reframing” American history and civics as the story of white supremacy and black subjection. Domestic terrorist-turned-sage Angela Davis comes to Andover to tell the nation’s future leaders they are being schooled on stolen land. Episcopalian bishops, Harvard deans, Ford Foundation executives, and Met curators climb onboard the crazy train, as style dictates. Holland Cotter over at the Times — on the day the US folded in Afghanistan — wondered whether “historic works of art can be considered exempt from modern moral scrutiny,” condemning “gender-based power plays” in Titian and Veronese’s mythical allegories.
First goes the culture. That’s before things get rough. Restitution and reparations, do understand, are code for future expropriations and forced wealth transfers. With barely concealed greed, agents of dispossession stand ready to confiscate ill-gotten gains of historical exploiters, and do so from a position of moral authority.
The functional, well-adjusted, and normative give up, flee, or seek enclaves where they and their children can be secure, where streets are clean and neighbors are civil, and where schools teach basic academics unencumbered by anti-white or anti-American feeling. Despised yeomen acquiesce in their lost status, or turn in vain to Donald J. Trump for salvation. Half of the nation resists deracination. The other half turns it into a mission.
What feels edgy and liberating at the top gets rank and seedy fast in slums and backwaters, the grim places where big trucks and beaten-up RVs are parked on the neighbor’s lawn. At a time in the nation’s history when almost one of two newborns is born out of wedlock, insisting on firm family ideals is politically impossible.
The insensate and criminal are not just a few vagrants and sociopaths, living in shadows, facing universal pity and contempt. The welfare state has been feeding clients and their children for three or four generations, and its subsidies have not produced a better, stronger people grateful for their nation’s largesse and security.
No doubt Russia and China have plenty of their own domestic problems, possibly so crushing that the West will persevere. But to those countries’ ruling classes, life is cheap and rights are thin. An icy realism, tempered by experience, prevails in ways few Americans can or want to understand.
Testing Western resolve is bound to continue. Putin and Xi know their rivals are poorly positioned politically and psychologically to confront austerity or force, the Ukraine invasion being one early probe into geopolitical power. For now, it’s chilling to think that Putin and Xi might perceive America’s internal weaknesses more clearly than most of the nation’s own ruling class.
By Gilbert T. Sewall
Yes they are right.
We are dissolving from within and are easy pickings.
I hope they realize that there are close to 50% who do not agree with the leftist agenda, who work hard and are creative.
“This iteration of family values and conservative critique went barely noticed by the American press at the time.”
Oh it didn’t go unnoticed by the press, it was just not reported.
All that matters to Vlad is that he came to understand the breathtaking weakness of our Rat Party when Osama Obama promised him flexibility a few years back. And today Osama’s understudy is in charge...willing to take a bribe if it’s generous enough and willing to blame Trump any time things go bad.
This is really scary—the “evil” Putin speaks the truth and the “western democracies” are vicious haters and liars.
;-)
It is a new world—many folks just have not figured it out yet.
Most of the ruling class are 5th columnists who are descended from Stalinist and Maoists of old and currently in the employ of Xi .
I’ll take my lessons on moral decay from people like Franklin Graham, not a neo-Stalinist secret policeman war criminal who makes a habit of ordering assassinations on journalists and opposition politicians, thank you very much
Personally, there is moral decay in the U.S., but I’m not accepting this from Putin. His country is ahead of us, and he is pushing it in the directions. Adultery, illegitimacy children, plundering his country to make him and his cronies wealthy, are just a few. Putin is in on all the deadly sins, except sloth.
God has often used the bad to teach the good.
Hear hear!!!
They are not as far along as we are.
Aww cmon. Won’t you worship Putin. He loves us and cares for us. It’s. Sick seeing some people here hero worship that monster
If we go to war with Russia, we are most likely looking at Civil War here. There would be little enthusiasm for the war, it certainly will not be like WWII, and there would be a lot of resistance to it.
"Hitler should beware the fury of an aroused democracy." Dwight David Eisenhower.
"Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Winston S. Churchill.
Well, OK. But moral decay can be reversed. It’s not easy, I grant you that, but here in American we have a religious/moral renewal every 100 years in the 30-40’s. Putin and Russia have a demographic decay that is terminal. Americans can shift their mindset and reject ideologies that don’t work. Russia can’t make people magically appear. Russia is one of a handful of countries that won’t be here be 2040.
We’re not even a country anymore! I mean when anyone even a terrorist can just walk in across our border and they are greeted with open arms by our own friggn government!
“@JoeBiden has warned of a ‘dark winter’ for our nation. But the dark winter we’re facing is not due just to #COVID19, it’s due to the moral decline & the political corruption we see throughout the US. My prayer is that truth will prevail in the political crisis we’re facing,” Graham tweeted
This is a civil war of the Slavic peoples who lived under the rule of Moscow for over 300 years and no American blood or treasure should be wasted on it.
I think immorality is a prerequisite for the presidency.
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