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Victor Davis Hanson: Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities
American Greatness ^ | 5 Oct, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/05/2023 4:47:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 10/05/2023 4:47:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
"their descent into fantasies"

They will actually fight to deny truth and defend their fantasies.

2 posted on 10/05/2023 4:47:50 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 10/05/2023 4:48:18 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

Did we think God’s judgement would be painless?

MUCH WORSE will come...


4 posted on 10/05/2023 4:55:57 AM PDT by InkStone (ONLY returning to Faith in God, thru Jesus Yeshua, will save America)
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To: MtnClimber

Reality — and truth — are foreign (and unacceptable) concepts (and values) to the Democrat/Communist Party Left. This is just a fact of life ... even beyond politics.


5 posted on 10/05/2023 4:59:07 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: MtnClimber

“”their descent into fantasies””

“Hey! You’re Victor Stanislav, the national weightlifter champion!”
“I’m a woman.”
“Really? That’s one heck of a big package you’ve got there.”
“I’m a woman.”
“Humm. That’s a pretty hairy chest.”
“I’m a woman. I have sensitive nipples.”


6 posted on 10/05/2023 5:02:47 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: MtnClimber; rlmorel; spirited irish

Flavius Josephus referred to it as “the madness of innovations.”


7 posted on 10/05/2023 5:07:29 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: MtnClimber

I heard it said that this was like the decline of Rome except for the Bread and Circuses.

I would argue they are still there but in the form of mental exercises.

Case in point- Abortion. This is the bread and circus dangled to women.
“Your Body, Your Choice”. Now dance to the tune of a superficial issue as Rome Burns. Turn off your brain and outrage over your choice!!! Then, a we force you to get vaccinated with poison since the choice for what you do to your body is limited to what we need you to care about that creates an issue that keeps us in power.

All the while Oz continues to make a mess behind that curtain. But if ya really need some old tune Bread and Circuses like in Rome, go buy some Starbucks and tune into the View.


8 posted on 10/05/2023 5:13:34 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: 6ppc; Alberta's Child; Alouette; AndyJackson; Aria; Basket_of_Deplorables; BatGuano; beaversmom; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

All of that was pure fantasy. The alarm was clearly marked. A sign in front of the door warned not to enter. And the door itself was placarded with cautions that any attempt to open it would set off emergency alarms.

No matter. Bowman assumed by calling his critics “Nazis” and using the race card, he could invent a virtual reality.

Despite our epidemic of fantasy, there remains reality.

And we will soon rediscover it all too soon.

Another excellent article from Prof Hanson. This was written before the Xiden administration suddenly tossed aside all of the "laws" and regulations that they used to O Sanctimoniously, tie up Texas and the Trump administration from completing the border wall.

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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9 posted on 10/05/2023 5:15:39 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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10 posted on 10/05/2023 5:32:06 AM PDT by gattaca (Either you will control your government, or government will control you. Ronald Reagan)
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Food has gone up more like 70-100 percent.


11 posted on 10/05/2023 6:00:19 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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ALL that should matter is that the current crop of Eight Million Illegal Immigrants GURANTEES that the DEMOCRAT VOTER FRAUD MACHINE will have sufficient votes to win any election at any time.

The fact that any of these Illegals have Govt ID should be proof enough that DEMS are spooling up VOTER FRAUD on a massive scale.


12 posted on 10/05/2023 6:11:44 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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The big problem we have here is people simply parrot the same governments statistics

The US Governments inflations stats are a lie and have been since 1999. Real inflation in every day necessitates like food and energy are 100% or higher over prices in 2019

The US Gov keeps the real inflation rate hidden by picking a revolving “basket of goods” to project a fantasy number on inflation. They been doing this since 1999.

Why? Because the annual Soc Security Cost of living adjustment is codified by law. If the US Governments had to be honest about inflation the COLAs every year would take ever larger bites out of “discretionary spending” in the US Federal Budget.


13 posted on 10/05/2023 6:16:34 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: InkStone

Yes, it will. You are so right


14 posted on 10/05/2023 6:17:01 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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"Something like that is happening in the United States. Eight million illegal immigrants terrorist invaders have entered the United States by the deliberate treasonous erasure of the southern border."

There. Fixed it.

Now the traitors need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to publicly hang. And the illegal invaders need to rounded up and deported.

15 posted on 10/05/2023 6:30:39 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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..."a world of make-believe, passed off to the American people as reality."

I see a correlation between that and life imitating "art" with its arbiters being insistent, if not dependent on the cooperation of everyone else. They say it's art and we say it's not because it isn't art, it's the product of con artists.
16 posted on 10/05/2023 6:47:19 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: Taxman

Ping


17 posted on 10/05/2023 7:22:27 AM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: texas booster

Bowman. There are so many lunatics in the news I can’t keep up.


18 posted on 10/05/2023 9:35:27 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Mr. K
Food has gone up more like 70-100 percent.

How much did eggs go up?

19 posted on 10/05/2023 9:39:38 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Carl Vehse

“ Now the traitors need to be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to publicly hang. And the illegal invaders need to rounded up and deported. ”

First, you need a very large, well-equipped army…because the traitors have complete, undisputed control of all the levers of government and society.

A faster solution, from a personal standpoint, is just leave it and kick the dust off your feet.


20 posted on 10/06/2023 8:14:19 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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