Posted on 05/30/2024 4:16:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention. What follows is the exposure and repudiation of long-existing but previously covered-up pathologies.
Events like the destruction of the southern border over the last three years, the October 7 massacre and ensuing Gaza war, the campus protests, the COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown, and the systematic efforts to weaponize our bureaucracies and courts have all led to radical reappraisals of American culture and civilization.
Since the 1960s, universities have always been hotbeds of left-wing protests, sometimes violently so.
But the post-October 7 campus eruptions marked a watershed difference.
Masked left-wing protestors were unashamedly and virulently anti-Semitic. Students on elite campuses especially showed contempt for both middle-class police officers tasked with preventing their violence and vandalism and the maintenance workers who had to clean up their garbage.
Mobs took over buildings, assaulted Jewish students, called for the destruction of Israel, and defaced American monuments and commentaries.
When pressed by journalists to explain their protests, most students knew nothing of the politics or geography of Palestine, for which they were protesting.
The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed.
The Biden administration destroyed the southern border. Ten million illegal aliens swarmed into the U.S. without audit. Almost daily, news accounts detail violent acts committed by illegal aliens or their surreal demands for more free lodging and support.
Simultaneously, thousands of Middle Eastern students, invited by universities on student visas, block traffic, occupy bridges, disrupt graduations, and generally show contempt for the laws of their American hosts.
The net result is that Americans are reappraising their entire attitude toward immigration. Expect the border to be closed soon and immigration to become mostly meritocratic, smaller, and legal...
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
There is plenty of blame to go around. Plenty of blame for the left and also big business.
Bkmk
Finally, we are witnessing a radical inversion in our two political parties. The old populist Democratic Party that championed lunch-bucket workers has turned into a shrill union of the very rich and subsidized poor. Its support of open borders, illegal immigration, the war on fossil fuels, transgenderism, critical legal and race theories, and the woke agenda are causing the party to lose support.
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“ The public concluded that the more elite the campus, the more ignorant, arrogant, and hateful the students seemed”
That’s exactly what I think
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It’ll shake up the west and all aligned with what made America great.
Most do not understand their christian roots and heritage.
In the meanwhile all the Marxists have aligned with the Islamic world for a full attack on all white western Europeans, descendents of the great Christianswho gave the free world liberty, rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Magna Carta.
Carlos the jackal openly spoke of this over 20 years ago. This was a part of the bill ayers/Obama agenda.
Yes, this will put a horrible spin on the civilized and uncivilized world.
I see a resultant of major death and global destruction.
Americans need to return to the rightful understanding of God , Christ and history as to what made the progress and achievement that made Great Britain and the rules that gave Australia, Canada and the USA their greatness. That’s 4/7ths of the G7.
Comparatively, Islam,the Marxists, Asians, Africans, indians developed shit. Imho.
It’s largely a failure in the educational system, largely due to the full frontal attack on western values.
It’ll shake up the west and all aligned with what made America great.
Most do not understand their christian roots and heritage.
In the meanwhile all the Marxists have aligned with the Islamic world for a full attack on all white western Europeans, descendents of the great Christianswho gave the free world liberty, rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Magna Carta.
Carlos the jackal openly spoke of this over 20 years ago. This was a part of the bill ayers/Obama agenda.
Yes, this will put a horrible spin on the civilized and uncivilized world.
I see a resultant of major death and global destruction.
Americans need to return to the rightful understanding of God , Christ and history as to what made the progress and achievement that made Great Britain and the rules that gave Australia, Canada and the USA their greatness. That’s 4/7ths of the G7.
Comparatively, Islam,the Marxists, Asians, Africans, indians developed shit. Imho.
It’s largely a failure in the educational system, largely due to the full frontal attack on western values.
It’ll shake up the west and all aligned with what made America great.
Most do not understand their christian roots and heritage.
In the meanwhile all the Marxists have aligned with the Islamic world for a full attack on all white western Europeans, descendents of the great Christianswho gave the free world liberty, rights and freedoms as enshrined in the Magna Carta.
Carlos the jackal openly spoke of this over 20 years ago. This was a part of the bill ayers/Obama agenda.
Yes, this will put a horrible spin on the civilized and uncivilized world.
I see a resultant of major death and global destruction.
Americans need to return to the rightful understanding of God , Christ and history as to what made the progress and achievement that made Great Britain and the rules that gave Australia, Canada and the USA their greatness. That’s 4/7ths of the G7.
Comparatively, Islam,the Marxists, Asians, Africans, indians developed shit. Imho.
It’s largely a failure in the educational system, largely due to the full frontal attack on western values.
“Expect the border to be closed soon…”
I’ll believe that when I see it.
These leftist "revolutions" are, in fact, acts of treason against the United States of America. The Demonicrat traitors need to be recognized for what they are.
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Amen...... there can no longer be co existence.
They must be destroyed
Of all these, this is the most monstrous.
This speaks volumes.
This is the Democrats' plan for America.
Biden is a figurehead controlled by a cabal whose objective is the destruction of the USA. Democrat Party members and their supporters are co-conspirators or their useful idiots. Understand this, and everything makes sense.
"Americans are reappraising their entire attitude toward immigration. Expect the border to be closed soon and immigration to become mostly meritocratic, smaller, and legal..."
Let's hope so.
Let's also hope that Americans reappraise the entire Democrat Party and its agenda and ALL of their support for it. It is truly the Party of Hate, Evil, and the Destruction of the USA.
And let's hope that the American People withdraw all support from the Democrat Party and its ruling cabal.
Co-existence is impossible with people who are bent on destroying us. It shouldn’t even be entertained.
The whole first world has a self-inflicted illegal / refugee mess on their hands. Only Hungary had the good sense to wall them out effectively?
The world has too many people of low capability and high dependency to care for. It is a problem that will not go away soon.
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