Victor Davis Hanson:
It is. I think the left as we knew it … I mean, I should say, rather, the Democratic Party as we knew it kind of got all of their agendas satisfied in the sixties and seventies. By that I mean, they were very good ideas of social security, eight-hour work week, 40 hours a week, eight hours a day, overtime, disability. But they made the next leap in the eighties and nineties that they did not just want a level playing field, but they wanted a larger government. And this has an ancient pedigree, to come in and engineer how people thought and act in a collective sense. And it was going to be overseen by a self-appointed group of elite people. And they taught, they controlled all of the levers of influence.
Now they have that. The long march through our institutions is now complete. They control academia, K through 12, the corporate boardroom, Wall Street, traditional media, Silicon Valley, foundations, even professional sports. Even though they don’t control or have influence over the majority of Americans, it’s very hard to communicate or retrieve information off the internet or watch the Super Bowl without that imprint of the Left. And that message, that subtext that’s always there, that you’re born into an unfair system. You perpetuated an unfair system. The system has to be destroyed or changed to our dictates. And we don’t need a majority consensus to achieve those goals, because our moral aims are such that they justify almost any means to achieve them.
Victor Davis Hanson is a little reminiscent of Orwell here…they both saw so much and were so prescient, yet as we have come now to clearly see where this is heading, it remains that neither of them could grasp the fullness of the ugly tyranny and stark demonic rage that is now beginning to come down upon us.
There truly is no way back, as a people inhabiting this land (can’t even come to call us a nation any longer) we will be walking through the valley of the shadow of death.