Our Descent Into Collective
Madness
PJ Media,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
2/18/2021 10:50:50 AM
These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine; to self-induced recession; to riot, arson, and looting; to a contested election; and to a riot at the U.S. Capitol. In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate? Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets? Or are we descending into a sort of madness? It might have been understandable that trillions of dollars had to be borrowed to keep a suffocating economy breathing. But it makes little sense to keep borrowing $2 trillion a year to prime an economy now set to roar back
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/18/2021 11:00:41 AM (No. 700436)
The nation must be opened up to survive.
Collateral damage has to be absorbed to save the Country.
Some may die from Covid that bad. But how many kids are going without education, How many people are out of work, How many business's are closing. How long can we go on adding trillions of wasted money to the Federal debt?
Open up. This Covid got us Biden, It can't get much worse than that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bad-hair 2/18/2021 11:50:05 AM (No. 700514)
Concise and as usual from VDH brilliant.
The elites will soon find out that they in 2020 built 80 MILLION Trumps.
They will soon find out that the "Whites" who lack their privilege are still here because USA.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/18/2021 12:34:38 PM (No. 700574)
As I understand this bill, $350 billion will go to people who need it. The remaining $1.650 trillion will go to bailout spendthrift blue state governments and mandate economically distinctive laws. I can hear the blue state governors now saying, “Whoopee, more free money I can spend to buy re-election!”
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 2/18/2021 12:35:20 PM (No. 700576)
FTA:
"The common denominator with all these absurdities? An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it."
Perhaps the French got it right in their revolution when the sent all of their royals to lose their heads. They certainly got it very violently wrong for about a decade from about 1789 to 1799, but getting rid of "their betters" wasn't a bad thing. That mess took a long time to sort out.
These wealthy tech hotshots who imagine that they are very smart, and very important had better have a good grasp of history. Sometimes 'the peasants' have had about enough.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PostAway 2/18/2021 1:21:14 PM (No. 700663)
Dr. Hanson wrote this article as if none of the absurdities he described were designed to cause suffering and failure. I believe that they are deliberate and the goal is to oversee the disappearance of a sizable portion of the population of the world through attrition, execution or slavery. It sounded far-fetched when Orwell wrote about it but so much has changed: the unchecked migration of hundreds of millions of the needy, poor and uneducated to the West; the attack on reliable sources of energy; the total supervision and control of habits, knowledge, speech and travel; the introduction of the idea of plant and insect-based diets; the emphasis on homosexuality and transsexualism (neutering); cancel culture, doxxing and public humiliation for holding traditional values would have been unthinkable on 9/11 but they are either part of our daily lives today or ascendant.
We know this is all imposed on us by an elite, humanist and very powerful group, we watch it being imposed but we are rendered powerless to stop it. There is, however, a Power that can and will stop it and I am so glad to know that.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 2/18/2021 1:21:18 PM (No. 700664)
It's only been a month, folks....we have 3 yrs, 11 months remaining.....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 2/18/2021 1:52:31 PM (No. 700718)
#5, that's a good point. There is a substantial leftist class that see's human beings as a plague on the 'perfect Earth', and wants most humans dead. They would not lose one moment's sleep over killing 3 or 5 billion humans, not at all. Truly evil, evil people on a scale that overtops any of the old mass murderers by large amounts. They would love to be just like Pol Pot, or Mao, or Stalin, or Hitler as far as wiping out billions of people.
Hating humans is a particularly evil view.
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