Victor Davis Hanson: 2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost

realclearpolitics.com ^ | December 31, 2009 | Victor Davis Hanson

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Thanks for the post/link. Very good thread.

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>>>The second possible reason is that the president has cold bloodedly calculated that his energy policy, when considered in pari materia with cap and trade will so dislocate the economy and produce so much chaos which he will exploit and move the country towards Marxism.<<<

Sadly, I think this is the strategy. It’s called a “manufactured crisis.” Since this is the United States, I don’t see something like the manufactured crisis that happened in Russia in 1917, but that’s the template. I would sense that we’ll see glacial movement towards totalitarianism, a movement so incremental that the structure will be in place long before anyone actually uses it in a Soviet manner. It’ll be one thing after another, and the solution will always steer us toward a statist solution run by Democrat Party supporters or sycophants. We’ll keep our guns, but slowly over time more and more of us will be “ineligible” for gun ownership, in the same way that a person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence right now can’t own a gun. We’ll keep our churches, but our institutions will steer citizens away from it. We’ll be able to listen to Rush, as long as the station can file the proper paperwork showing that it reflects the community, and slowly over time fewer and fewer communities will reflect that viewpoint. We’ll get used to 10 percent unemployment, and then 20 percent unemployment, maybe, as long as benefits don’t dry up. We’ll be glad to have a job, even if it means working for the state. The state will help us get money for college, and teach us the right way, and provide us a mortgage, and sell us the right kind of car, and turn our thermostats up and down for us, and provide us with medical care, and create hospices for end of life concerns, in slow, measured steps. When the Republicans win in 2010, the ideas will still be there, and the left will be waiting again for another crisis to further push their way towards the growth of the state.

Those of us who remember liberty and freedom will be considered doddering old men pining away for a racist past. And when we die, no one will remember.

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