Posted on 04/08/2024 4:48:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The long-awaited Great Fundamental Transformation finally got its moment, crashed, and now has torched the nation—middle-class Americans most of all.
In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump. Democrats eventually captured, for a time, both the House and Senate, ensuring the most left-wing government in modern American history.
Americans were then set to witness a great experiment. For the first time in their lives, a truly radical socialist program would supposedly fundamentally transform the way America dealt with the border, immigration, the economy, race relations, foreign policy, energy, law enforcement, crime, education, and social questions such as religion, gender, abortion, and schooling.
In a sense, we were all to be lab rats of sorts, to be experimented on by the radical left and their various critical theories. Now in the last year of the Biden term, we can see the results of that experiment—and the unfortunate disasters that followed.
But first, how was such a radical move to the left even possible in a center-right America?
The Democratic nominee, Biden, had earlier united the left, but only through a Faustian deal. The handlers of a nearly non compos mentis Biden had ushered all his 2020 primary rivals out of the primary races in unison.
But in exchange for their exits that ensured Biden the nomination, the left took over his general campaign—in which Biden was virtually relegated to his basement—and then set his agenda.
Who was running things?
The mysterious architects of White House ideology included, inter alia, the omnipresent, now-Washington-DC-dwelling Obamas, the old socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders, the fossilized tribunes of the black and Latino congressional caucuses, the DEI firebrand Squad, and the neo-socialist scold Elizabeth Warren.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The left operates through deception and it is apparent that many people are easy to fool.
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Our Nation is in ruins, which means the fundamental transformation has been successful in its purpose.
Socialism/Communism is self-hatred and self-destruction disguised as compassionate altruism.
The common denominator for these disasters is the embrace of left-wing “theory.”
Critical legal theory mandates that jurisprudence is a construct. Laws have no morality since they favor the powerful. The latter use “white privilege” arbitrarily to invent crimes and punishments to protect their own power hierarchies. All that nonsense has now led to a pre-civilizational free-for-all in our dirty, dangerous, and dysfunctional cities.
Very thought provoking article from Prof Hanson.
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Professor, why do focus your ire on the stooges instead of the people hiding behind them...?
I will argue that the City States are in ruins and inescapable failure mode. Physically and geographically, that is not true of most of the nation.
Hanson lives in California. California has resigned from America and has very large failed cities. His location amongst the heart of the failure clouds his judgement
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“In 2021, Joe Biden was elected after a bitterly fought campaign that deposed the incumbent Donald Trump.”
I’m disappointed that a truth-teller of VDH’s caliber would pay lip service to this big lie - that “Joe Biden was elected”. He was not.
There is nothing more important than exposing this particular lie, and awakening the American people to the cold stark reality that - yes - the media is totally controlled by an unelected and corrupt permanent bureaucracy - and that they conspired to lie to the American people about something as profound as - who was the rightful winner of the 2020 Presidential election.
Until that horrifying truth sinks in and becomes general public knowledge, We The People will not have sufficient resolve to take back our Republic from these tyrants.
VDH-—in a Faustian exchange that ensured demented Biden the nom, Biden was relegated
to his basement w/ a freezer full of ice cream, as the loony left’s “usual suspects” continued their woeful agenda:
<><>Obama, the eternal president, who never went home, and wont shut up,
<><>the sap-happy old socialist gadfly Bernie Sanders,
<><>the fossilized foreign voices of the black and Latino congressional caucuses,
<><>the cover girls of the DEI Squad,
<><>and the neo-socialist scold Elizabeth Warren.
the deep state runs things while the clowns are put front and center for ridicule and blame by us
Very good reminder of the larger picture. Thank you. I’m in AZ and the Donk stranglehold here clouds my judgment, too.
I really wish the Founding Fathers had figured out some mechanism to allot a measure of political power to designated City States, which would have set them apart from the states in which the city was located. Something like the 3/5 rule which decreased the population count and therefore the political power of the slave states.
Imagine Illinois with a political posture separate from Chicago. Imagine Pennsylvania separate from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. California as a strictly rural political power.
If the residents of Baltimore have only access to the resources of Baltimore, and the political pull of only Baltimore, then let's see how those residents will choose to vote. You want grifters in charge? There isn't much to grift. Do you want to defund your police? Go ahead.
The legislative branch of the national government, and the executive branch of the national government might care a little bit about the failure of the City States, but the national government -- and each of the state governments --ought to be chiefly answerable to the voters in all of the little counties in this country where real people live and work.
City States ought to live or die on their own.
All of this, plus the mishandling of covid by the democrats.
How so I might ask?
Probably the greatest writer/author alive.......
Trouble is no one on the left will read him......and have their feet knocked out from under them.......
VDH nails it...again.
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You are so right!
I ALWAYS refer to “the left” as LIEberals!
LIEberals because LIEberals LIE!
LIEberals CANNOT tell the truth about ANYTHING they are planning or doing because they would not be elected to ANY office in America!
So, LIEberals MUST LIE!
Unfortunately, far too many Americans either agree with their LIEs, or don’t know/care they are being LIEd to!
Justt wait until you see some sort of amnesty (and therefore voting for illegals) and the democrats get two or three more Supreme Court appointments!!!
These last four years will pale to what is coming.
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