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Victor Davis Hanson: Post-Postmodern America - Woke Revolution depends on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others
American Greatness ^ | 14 Sep, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 09/14/2023 5:38:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous.

Take the following examples of woke craziness and hypocrisy, perhaps last best witnessed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.

The Biden administration from its outset wished to neuter immigration law. It sought to alter radically the demography of the U.S. by stopping the border wall and allowing into the United States anyone who could walk across the southern border.

Over seven million did just that. Meanwhile, Biden ignored the role of the Mexican cartels in causing nearly 100,000 ANNUAL American fentanyl deaths.

Then border states finally wised up.

They grasped that the entire open-borders, “new Democratic majority” leftwing braggadocio was predicated on its hypocritical architects staying as far away as possible from their new constituents.

So cash strapped border states started busing their illegal aliens to sanctuary blue-state jurisdictions.

Almost immediately, once magnanimous liberals, whether in Martha’s Vineyard, Chicago, or Manhattan, stopped virtue-signaling their support for open borders.

Instead, soon they went berserk over the influx.

So now an embarrassed Biden administration still wishes illegal aliens to keep coming but to stay far away from their advocates—by forcing them to remain in Texas.

That means the president has redefined the US. border. It rests now apparently north of Texas, as Biden cedes sovereignty to Mexico.

Precivilizational greens in California prefer blowing up dams to building them.

They couldn’t care less that their targeted reservoirs help store water in drought, prevent flooding, enhance irrigation, offer recreation, and generate clean hydroelectric power.

Now an absurd green California is currently destroying four dams on the Klamath River. In adding insult to injury, it is paying the half-billion dollar demolition cost in part through a water bond that state voters once thought would build new—not explode existing—dams.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson; wokeism
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1 posted on 09/14/2023 5:38:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The blue states should be forced to implement these leftist plans first in a demonstration project to convince red states that they are worth adopting.


2 posted on 09/14/2023 5:38:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 09/14/2023 5:39:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Everything that the Biden administration is doing is the deliberate destruction of the USA as the leader of a free world. It is what the Chinese paid the Bidens to do.


4 posted on 09/14/2023 5:44:01 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: MtnClimber
That means the president has redefined the US. border. It rests now apparently north of Texas, as Biden cedes sovereignty to Mexico.

Remember the Alamo.

5 posted on 09/14/2023 5:45:10 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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To: MtnClimber

He’s right

Elite PJ types already have theirs


6 posted on 09/14/2023 5:45:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (Why so many nevertrumpers with early sign ups and no posting history till now? Zot them PTB)
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To: MtnClimber

Pay your taxes, eat your dog food and shut up.


7 posted on 09/14/2023 5:46:52 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MtnClimber

A good article.

Someone else, can’t remember who, said that was the real reason for the Red Ripple in 2022. High gas prices, inflation, etc SHOULD have caused a wave.

Yet the truth is the Democratic Party is mostly supported by a coalition. Wealthier college indoctrinated liberals (ex suburban women) and poor of various types. So the first group had enough money they didn’t suffer and the second group is mostly getting free stuff like welfare and COVID relief money and they didn’t care.

The only group suffering more was the working upper lower classes and lower middle classes who for the most part would have voted Republican anyway.


8 posted on 09/14/2023 5:48:26 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Daveinyork

Exactly!


9 posted on 09/14/2023 5:52:51 AM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! There)
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To: MtnClimber

And while America burns, the pundits write indignant articles and the GOP plays the fiddle.


10 posted on 09/14/2023 5:53:50 AM PDT by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


11 posted on 09/14/2023 5:55:19 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

One of the most truthful headlines I have ever read that sums up these ilk.


12 posted on 09/14/2023 5:58:31 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: MtnClimber

“ it is paying the half-billion dollar demolition cost in part through a water bond that state voters once thought would build new—not explode existing—dams.”

Everything about the Left is sham and affectation.

Everything.

L


13 posted on 09/14/2023 5:59:19 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: ClearCase_guy
Remember the Alamo.

Yea, Texas lost. Biden wants to do it a second time.

14 posted on 09/14/2023 6:24:29 AM PDT by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Daveinyork
Everything that the Biden administration is doing is the deliberate destruction of the USA as the leader of a free world. It is what the Chinese paid the Bidens to do.

The liberals which is now the "woke" folks are getting the real lesson on "Economics".

Why does Joe Biden have five (5) big homes on a salary of say no more than $250,000.00 a year???

Joe Biden had three (3) Bleeding Brain Aneurysms.

Joe Biden should have retired after the first bleeding brain aneurysm.

Joe Biden has to wreck the U.S. economy first and the American people who are reading this can not believe their eyes and ears.

15 posted on 09/14/2023 6:27:49 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: MtnClimber

Call it what it is: Post-Christian America. This is what it’s like when a majority of citizens don’t even make a pretense of practicing Christianity, and a solid plurality actively hate Christians.


16 posted on 09/14/2023 6:35:35 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: Daveinyork

Joe Biden has a full scale Alzheimer's and dementia and he still managed to steal the election of 2020.

17 posted on 09/14/2023 6:35:40 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder if VDH ever notices that the neocon GOP that he pals around with are horrible on mass migration.

Have you ever heard one of them demand the removal of the army of illegals?

I didn’t think so.

And some, specifically Dennis Prager, want to “solve” illegal immigration by vastly increasing the horde we allow in legally.

Soon the entire country will be a multi culti zoo like California.


18 posted on 09/14/2023 7:02:46 AM PDT by Pelham (President Eisenhower. Operation Wetback 1953-54)
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To: masadaman; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; Basket_of_Deplorables; BatGuano; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

There are two other characteristics of the Woke Revolution.

One, it depends solely on its advocates never having to experience firsthand any of the nonsense they inflict on others.

And two, dangerous zealots with titles before, and letters after, their names prove to be quite stupid—and dangerous.

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19 posted on 09/14/2023 8:01:50 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber
"When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous sunk into the hull-crushing abyss of treason."

There. Fixed it.

20 posted on 09/14/2023 8:20:34 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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