If You Really Wanted to Destroy the United States of America, Then...

Townhall ^ | 12/01/2022 | Victor Davis Hanson

[aquila48]

Excellent list by VDH.

I would add the scourge of LGBTQRSTUV to his list. It is destroying the most important unit of society, the family, as well as butchering the language, castrating kids, and redefining reality as to whatever you want it to be.

It won’t end well.

[SaxxonWoods]

I don’t know how to quantify your numbers but I agree with your take in general.

[daniel1212]

Must be written by a mainly financial conservative, ignoring the spiritual and moral aspects.

1. Forbid official expressions of gratitude to, and dependence upon, supernatural power, esp. the general Christian faith of so many Founders and their constitutes, and thus in-stead promote atheism as the official faith, that an exceedingly vast, systematically ordered, intricate universe, exquisitely finely tuned for earthly life with its extensive diversity and astounding complexity - from the Big Bang to DNA - came to be by known, purely natural demonstrable powers, meaning great faith in nature, as if it was Divine.

2. Having thereby removed a supreme source and ultimate judge, and affirmation of express Divine revelation as the sure supreme moral standard, promote rebellion against valid authority and traditional basic morals, and replacement of both with liberal elites and the ever-morphing immoral ethos of the Left.

3. Promote “reproductive freedom” meaning legal access and funding for contraceptives (prevention of life), and abortion (murder) thus fostering fornication and its (costly) diseases, as well as the decline of the family, with those that remain typically being one or at the most two spoiled children (since couples prevented and delayed birth until they would not be financially stressed) who are never to be experience any spanking regardless of how rebellious, resulting in an over sensitive, intolerant generation that demand their own way, and have difficulty even hearing opposing opinions.

4. Promote homosexual relations in particular, since it is a demonic perversion of what God ordained, and even despite 80% of new HIV case among men being due to Sodom. And provide substantial funding for it. And criminalize opposition to homosexual unions, or even not sanctioning the same.

5. Promote dependence upon government, and increasing the national debt by trillions, and favoring the voter base of the Left thereby.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It's the old addage from the Obama years.

Let's assume Obama was the greatest ever. Let's assume he loves America. So then...if he WERE trying to destroy us, what would he do differently? Nothing.

[gattaca]

Thanks for posting that.

[rlmorel]

LOL, there isn’t any way to quantify them, for sure.

I use “The Rule of Thirds” to categorize things. It might not be accurate in any way, just trying to figure out how to make sense of things.

It is a handy rule, and as a way of breaking things down on the fly, sometimes is good for that.

[CatHerd]

Lol over Maxine and Schiff. But a sad sort of lol. Could be! But could they be worse than whoever is running the Biden administration?

I agree about not wanting to stick their heads in the toilet of politics. I was thinking of advising quietly from afar, and infrequently, sort of like former presidents are sometimes asked to do. But they might not want to get even that close to the potty.

[subterfuge]

Well that was depressing. All FReepers already know this anyway.

[AFreeBird]

👍🏼

[nutmeg]

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[jmacusa]

I remember reading this speech here years ago. Scared the hell out of me then and it still does.

My grandkids are going to be living in a very different America. A dark and dangerous one.

[Revel]

Infiltrating the education system was the real first step.

[StAnDeliver]

The older he gets, the more VDH overindulges in these stream-of-conciousness steamers, which this one in particular is desperate for an editor.

Anytime you use a number list, you either do it right or don't do it. 3 and 4 should be 1 and 2, and even then, they are indecipherable.

Let's fix this.

• 1) End America's physical boundaries. End any vestigial difference between a "citizen" and an "illegal alien". Enlist the MSM to humiliate the hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants to the United States who have agreed to follow the rules. Force states to invoke Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, the "invasion clause", and then sue them for doing their Constitutionally-mandated duty.

• 2) Destroy the public trust in its elections. Use the MSM to malign the sanctity, the security and the civil responsibility of Election Day in an attempt to make the Republic's specific, Constitutional rules of representative democracy irrelevant. Normalize mail-in ballots before candidates are even vetted, and ignore ballot harvesting criminal conspiracies, while making proper auditing of 110 million mail-in/early ballots impossible, particularly by permitting a voter to vote in-person but also drop a mail-in ballot in the mail on Election Day.

[LouAvul]

If you really wanted to destroy the United States, then ... pass the 19th Amendment.

[MrChips]

Excellent article, but other than an oblique reference to “cancel culture” there is no mention of destroying the educations system, but then, I suppose that has been going on since 1913, the year the NEA was established.