Posted on 12/14/2023 4:24:15 AM PST by MtnClimber
Nihilism is the religion of the Left. Anarchy is now at the core of the new Democratic Party.
If the Left wished radically to alter the demography of the U.S., it could have expanded legal immigration through legislation or the courts.
Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.
By fiat, nihilists ended the wall, and stopped detaining and deporting illegal aliens altogether.
Or was it worse than that when candidate Joe Biden in September 2019 urged would-be illegal aliens to “surge” the border?
As a result, through laxity and entitlement incentives, eight-million illegal entrants have swarmed the southern border under the Biden administration.
They are swamping border towns, bankrupting big-city budgets, and infuriating even Democratic constituencies.
The same nihilism applies to crime.
In the old days liberals gave light sentences to criminals or reduced bail. But today leftist prosecutors do not even seek bail. They hardly prosecute theft or random assaults.
Criminals are arrested and released the same day. Is the nihilist plan to destroy the entire body of American jurisprudence, and to ensure “equity” in being victimized?
Is the woke idea that all Americans—inclusive of diverse Beverly Hills elites, Hollywood celebrities, or members of Congress alike—must share victim equity, and thus experience first-hand street robbery, car-jacking, smash-and-grab, and home invasion?
The United States can produce annually more natural gas and oil than any nation on earth. It once pioneered nuclear power. It has vast coal reserves and sophisticated hydroelectric plants.
The old idea was to use these unmatched resources to transition gradually to other cleaner fuels such as hydrogen, fusion power, solar, and wind. That way consumers would still enjoy affordable energy. And the United States could remain independent of coercion by the oil-producing Middle East.
But that was not the nihilist way.
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The chaos is a communist tactic. Next they open all of the prison doors. The plan is to cause such mayhem and misery that people will beg for totalitarian government control to make it stop.
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We already made our choice.
Deep State was not amused.
Which is why we are no longer allowed to choose at the ballot box.
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The problem with the Marxist plan though is something that Margaret Thatcher commented on obliquely when she said that socialism works fine until you run out of other people's money.
If the current system (i.e., Western civilization) is destroyed, the stockpile of "other people's money" will be destroyed with it.
Ergo, the new Marxist regime won't have a honeymoon period during which to suck up the wealth of the previous culture. It will be starting out with nothing.
It is very similar to what George Orwell wrote about in the novel, 1984.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. This can’t be true.
Why, just yesterday, on Capitol Hill, while he’s struggling with addictions (sob)
the brave surviving son of a president swore it was those dam conservatives
who were trying to embarrass and damage his “saintly father” (sniffle).
Hunter swore on a gram of cocaine his “honorable Democrat of a dad,”
a 50-year public servant, is “dedicated” to upholding American “values.”
I want just the opposite. Neutering of the government back to the absolute minimum levels supported by the Constitution.
Past Peak Civilization?
In sum, we are witnessing an epidemic of leftist nihilism similar to the 16th-century European mad wave of iconoclastic destruction of religious art.
Or is the better parallel the suicidal insanity that Mao Zedong unleashed during his cultural revolution of the 1960s?
The old politics of right versus left, and Republican opposed to Democrat have now given way to a new existential struggle: Americans must choose between civilization—or its destroyers.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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Hunter swore on a gram of cocaine his “honorable Democrat of a dad,”
a 50-year public servant, is “dedicated” to upholding American “values.”
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LOL, that is brilliant!
Glad you liked it.
When the democrat marxists take over I don’t think there will be “money.” There will be “credits.” Just a thought...
Not money...but assets/wealth.
Given that Marxism is completely unproductive, there must be "assets" available at the start of a new Marxist regime or the pain is immediate. A honeymoon period is necessary for people to be indoctrinated and whipped into submission. Hence the need for assets left over from the prior capitalist culture.
“Instead, it simply erased the border and dynamited federal immigration law.”
The So’ros/Obama/Biden administration ignores Federal Laws, Supreme Court ruling and the Constitution and yet will condone throwing someone in jail for using the wrong pronouns when addressing someone. We now seem to be the USFUBAR.
"Nah Donny, these men are nihilists, it's nothing to be afraid of."
It reminds me of Mercy Otis Warren's account of the beginning of the American Revolution. She said before the first shot was fired, there was a ten year period wherein forceful bloody revolution was in the minds of the patriots, who solidified and strengthened their 'cause' and made it seem inevitable. I believe this is happening now. If you compare VDH essays from even a year ago they lack the resignation this one has.
I have yet to see even ONE Rat... coworker, family, on the street, in elected office... admit that yes, "my party has gone too far. Your side is right. Ours is wrong."
So remember this time and, when it all starts happening, remind them and yourself that THEY wanted this. THEY insisted on blocking any other avenue of reform. They rejected all manner of fair play and reasonable behavior.
And therefore they will DESERVE every horrible thing that they are going to have rain down on them.
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