Posted on 01/08/2024 5:37:10 AM PST by MtnClimber
American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable.
In the last six months, we have borne witness to many iconic moments evidencing the collapse of American culture.
The signs are everywhere and cover the gamut of politics, the economy, education, social life, popular culture, foreign policy, and the military. These symptoms of decay share common themes.
Our descent is self-induced; it is not a symptom of a foreign attack or subterfuge. Our erosion is not the result of poverty and want, but of leisure and excess. We are not suffering from existential crises of famine, plague, or the collapse of our grid and fuel sources. Prior, far poorer, and war-torn generations now seem far better off than what we are becoming.
What is happening to us is not due to an adherence to a too strict conservative tradition but is almost exclusively the wage of the progressive project.
In short, we are seeing fissures that America has not experienced in our cultural history since the Civil War. The radical Left apparently feels such chaos, anarchy, and nihilism are necessary to topple past norms and customs and thereby adhere to a socialist, equity agenda that no one in normal times would stomach.
Some of the decay is existential and fundamental; some anecdotal and illustrative. But either way, while decline came about gradually over decades, its sudden and abrupt chaos during the three years of Biden’s presidency has shocked Americans.
Financial Implosion
As long as interest rates were de facto zero, both parties ran up gargantuan debt. Now the national debt has hit $34 trillion. But two odd things have also happened under the Biden administration that are beginning to undermine the very existence of the U.S. financial system:
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Ok. I picked Bush I because he was the first true globalist president. But he certainly grew out of the 60s milieu.
It began when Adam ate the apple.
Jamis Winston N.O. QB. Pulled that stunt after being told victory formation. This is one week after the G.B. Packer player inserted himself into the coin flip. Their explanations afterwards. The price they pay will be measured.
It’s blacks. The white leftist leaders need them. The occasional OJ episode is tolerated. Kapernick got the national anthem televised during commercial time. Give up football? Like me most of you won’t. More Jesus? That and $3 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
Women-abortion. I could go on.
He saw some crab legs in the end zone.
Kissing Black Ass is an existential activity for Democrats
Dr. Jill is an impressive academic. Oprah and LeBron are the downtrodden and victimized. Gen. Mark Milley is a brave maverick, and so is Adam Schiff. The flight from Afghanistan marked a brilliantly organized retreat.
The Chinese balloon really did not take too many pictures of sensitive areas. January 6 was an armed insurrection, preplanned by fiery conspirators and revolutionaries. Ashli Babbitt deserved to be blasted in the neck for entering a broken window.
Kamala Harris is a wordsmith. Russian collusion really happened. So did Russian laptop disinformation. Christopher Steele’s dossier was mostly true, in the fashion of Claudine Gay’s dissertation and Barack Obama’s memoir. And 51 former intelligence authorities bravely came forward to offer their expertise in certifying that Hunter’s laptop was cooked up in Moscow.
With all this, what do we think the Iranians, Putin’s Russians, the communist Chinese, the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas now think of the United States?
VDH nails it in an excellent article. Please follow to understand his thinking on our culture.
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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Do not understand what you are referring to.
The US Government is the laughingstock of the world.............
True and very depressing.
Eve ate the apple.....
Of course. It’s early.
The tolerant and compassionate Biden administration ran up the ntl debt to $34 trillion.
Soon we’ll need 20% of the budget just to pay the interest on the debt.....
so dont count on US ntl security dollars to keep your family safe.
And get this-——Biden’s compassion never ceases.....
he is intent on borrowing nearly $2 trillion in the current fiscal year.
Most of us who participate in this forum are old enough that we feared more for our children and grandchildren's futures than our own. But the precipice is now directly in front of us and we are standing on a slippery slope. Those who were once labeled survivalists are now likely to have their mettle tested soon.
Your link goes to an FR Post Page, to DugwayDuke... not an article.
VDH’s long lamentation sounds a lot like the Reverend’s riff about Rock Ridge in “Blazing Saddles”. Where, O where, is Sheriff Bart when we need him?
That’s where I put our beginning of the end time, at.
Amen. Deliberately turning our back on Him has destroyed us.
Wow, VDH succinctly calls things out. This nation and its emperor have no clothes on.
The enemy of The United States has a name.
That enemy is the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party places itself above our Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government.
The Democrat Party places itself above our free and fair Press.
The Democrat Party places itself above all of our schools.
The Democrat Party places itself above our businesses.
The Democrat Party places itself above the division of governmental power in our nation between federal, state, county and local governments.
The Democrat Party places itself above all means of communication.
For America to be America, progressives must be destroyed
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