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Great article.
America is unstoppable.
Hanson makes the case well.
Excellent article.
Take out the liberal media and all will be fine.
ManBearPig is still on the loose.
Sounds like the talking points of the DBM.
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Excellent article!
great article
Hanson is a real historian, not like brinkley, who wrote the puff-piece book on kerry, or the famously self-promoting leftist historian (now deceased) who plagarized all the WW2 stuff and became a rich pop historian.
America is indeed a blessed nation, and it indeed has recuperative powers. But there are significant defects new to the postwar era and post-Berlin Wall era. First and foremost, our educational system is not really as meritocratic today as it had been for decades earlier. Moreover, it is not as readily a conduit of vertical social mobility, from the working class into the middle class. Rather, our high schools and lower schools are cess-pools of cliques or pecking orders which teachers blithely tolerate and encourage rather than confront in the slightest. Moreover, most schools are organized dating societies that happen, oh by the way, to teaching something once in a while. They are not educational institutions in which, to be sure, dating also happens to occur. And don’t even get me started about Dep’ts of Education in major universities: they are below Plato’s cave.
Overall I see an increasing, already enormous division between two major groups of young people - and not by race, ethicity, religion or necessarily income (but income is more vital). This is the division between the very, very well educated, those familiar and conversant with books and ideas even if they are not interested in becoming academics or scholars; and the vast majority of young people who could care less about books and ideas. Everyhing in our popular culture is reinforcing their casualness and ignorance, and it is rife in 2d and 3d tier colleges. It is so manifestly in evidence that no one can deny it or simply disregard what I’m saying. I don’t see this turning around anytime soon, and to me this is a central structural and culture defect running through the American educational system, occupational order and stratification system.
Revoke citizenship of liberals(they hate this place anyway) and deport them along with all the illegals and all will be shipshape.Oh yeah, throw out the bunch of rinos as well.They are worse than libs.
And republican voters roll their eyes and drool with their tongues hanging out.. electing obvious RINOS, sneaky RINOS, and stealth RINOs.. and the WHite RINO House lobbys for even more proto democrat insurgents coming across the border like a Donkey Rodeo.. in a stampede..
That's a stretch. During WWII and the Cold War, sure. By comparison, our current and would-be adversaries are midgets.
Is Sky Falling on America?
Townhall ^ | 5/24/07 | Victor Davis Hanson
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838870/posts
Posted on 05/23/2007 11:30:13 PM CDT by Valin
The suicide-murders and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan sicken Americans. Soon-to-be nuclear Iran seems loonier than nuclear North Korea. American debt keeps piling up in China and Japan. And we think of angry Venezuela, the Middle East and Russia every time we fill up - if we can afford to fill up.
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