The 10 Radical New Rules That Are
Changing America
PJ Media,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
4/1/2021 12:37:04 AM
There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.
2) Laws are not necessarily binding
Reply 1 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 4/1/2021 12:41:49 AM (No. 741397)
Overwhelm the system crash the system then remake the system. Right now we are in the overwhelming the system phase. Money is digitized on command. No limit spending. Tax increases will be the appeasement solution to the stupid people and life will not be the same ever again. It’s going to get really really bad before it gets better if ever.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/1/2021 1:59:42 AM (No. 741419)
The dystopian future is upon us. The thefts of the presidential election and the two GA senate seats have smashed the windows of our civilization and the looters are swarming the shelves of our national treasure and throwing molotov cocktails on our culture.
I doubt we’ll ever recover. Not in my lifetime (~25 years?)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 4/1/2021 2:11:07 AM (No. 741423)
Are we doomed? I hope not but I fear we are close to falling of the ledge.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/1/2021 2:18:52 AM (No. 741425)
no problem ... we just do what other countries do to us ... we just tell them we don't have the money and don't pay them back.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/1/2021 2:20:04 AM (No. 741426)
All brought to the public by commie demonrats.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mifla 4/1/2021 4:43:55 AM (No. 741451)
The politicians know that by the time the financial house of cards comes crashing down, they will be retired with their millions protected elsewhere.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GustoGrabber 4/1/2021 6:36:06 AM (No. 741477)
Never Trumpers own part of this. The Republican elite mocked social conservatives and Rove, McConnell and Bushies kept them (us) quiet and out of the loop. And here we are, back in the catecombs.
Christianity and democracy , both taken for granted now under attack by Soros, Obama, global communism the Chamber of Commerce and international monopolies.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/1/2021 7:23:28 AM (No. 741498)
Do you believe any of the people who declined to support the effort to reveal the corruption behind the theft of the 2020 election are having any second thoughts? Does “what if” ever enter their conscious thought? What a missed opportunity to stand for justice. So many people failed the country because of their lack of courage to stand against the theft of a Presidential election. I could not live with myself if I knew I could have made a difference and chose not to especially when I see what is happening to this country.
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When you erase your history, you have demeaned your future.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/1/2021 7:54:58 AM (No. 741514)
There's a huge difference between 0% interest and 30% interest on $30 Trillion in debt. And what's the main way to take excess dollars out of the economy to avoid inflation? Raise interest rates.
It'd be a flood of dollars back home if foreign countries drop the dollar as the exchange currency - a currency that's backed by nothing.
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# 10 - Dems' ignorance about exchange currency would be an excuse they could hide under when our economy implodes, but if implosion is their goal then they have nothing to apologize for.
I'm afraid it's the latter.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
gone2pot 4/1/2021 8:39:23 AM (No. 741549)
I guess VDH is somehow insulated in the Central Valley of Marxifornia but his use of the present active participle "changing" is quite flawed. He should use the more correct past participle "changed, in the past with the result that it remains changed forever." America no longer exists. It ended Nov 3, 2020. Georgia made it certain the following December. Now, do your patriotic duty and mask up Dominioners.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/1/2021 9:14:14 AM (No. 741579)
The left has been quietly dismantling America since the 1960s. Great civilizations are known in history to last about 250 years. Guess how old America is. Stop your loathing, get your shots, mask up, and start conforming to the new world order. Amerika is here...for now, anyway.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bobn.t 4/1/2021 10:19:42 AM (No. 741645)
America is dead and lost.
Thise responsible need to pay the price. The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed with the blood of the tyrants ( re: Thomas Jefferson).
Civil war is looming.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bobn.t 4/1/2021 10:20:55 AM (No. 741650)
"Those responsible"
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 4/1/2021 10:31:42 AM (No. 741664)
Remember Mel Gibson's response in Braveheart..."HOLD...HOLD...HOLD"...wait for the right moment... and then...NOW!!...as he watched the thundering horses gallop towards his men... and at the right moment...his attack with handmade lances won the day... there are many stories in our history of courage... and now is OUR time for courage...
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 4/1/2021 10:48:10 AM (No. 741680)
If the government is just going to print more and more money to cover expenses, why do we have to pay taxes?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
LonestarM3 4/1/2021 12:13:10 PM (No. 741758)
I am surprised and somewhat appalled to see so many nihilistic "Liberty is lost so just submit to the socialist tyranny" comments on this forum.
The threat to the preservation of liberty in America - and in the future around the world - from last November's "election" is greater than was posed by America's civil war or either world war. But that is no reason to just say "oh the hell with it, just submit."
No intelligent informed person in this country - on the left or the right - actually believes that the last election was won by Biden "fair and square."
If you still have a Facebook or Twitter account you are helping the "cancel culture" effectively nullify the Bill of Rights.
If you purchase anything from Amazon you are directly rewarding the cancel culture.
If you still have a credit card from or paid through a bank that is banning accounts from gun companies or in many cases any company, or even individual, suspected of being a Trump voter, you are supporting the enemy.
Our liberty, our natural rights as individuals, are only lost if and when we admit we are beat.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/1/2021 12:18:37 PM (No. 741763)
The federal tax increases will only appear popular as long as they are accompanied by government stimulus checks to most people, especially to the half of all Americans and aliens today who have no tax liability, and who file tax returns to obtain tax refunds and expanded tax credits. When over half the voters in the country do not have any tax liability and keep voting for the leftist and liberal Democrats, there will be no end to the new tax increases that those Democrats will pass into law without any effective opposition.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 4/1/2021 12:27:43 PM (No. 741775)
Thank you VDH for combining the Rules for Radicals all in 10 concise new ideas the left has implemented through Obama/Biden/Soros/et al on WARP speed since January 20, 2021. Actually, it started with the China virus and the DNC using it to create fear and control over the masses. Never let a crisis go to waste!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Penney 4/1/2021 1:01:18 PM (No. 741801)
Victor Davis Hanson clearly lists the challenges presented by the lawless Biden dem/socialist gang. They have no respect whatsoever for America, American history, the American citizens nor the Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Happiness for which we give thanks to God. The dem party seems to have joined America's century-long adversaries who have tried to destroy the individual liberties and freedom principles which the USA has always represented in this world. Mark Levin's insightful book, Liberty & Tyranny, presents the choice.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hermoine 4/1/2021 1:10:42 PM (No. 741811)
I am pretty sure we've gone off the cliff, hit the ground and are just waiting for the anvil to fall on top of us.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/1/2021 2:10:44 PM (No. 741862)
We fight lefty radicals whose leaders cannot be seen or reached. The deck has been stacked against us. We had a strong leader in Trump, and it wasn't enough. Very few in government actually sided with him. Half the country has thrown in with the enemy because they get free stuff or benefit in some other way or are brainwashed or just plain ignorant. Don't know how we win this.
The 10 Radical New Rules are a denial of reality. There will be a reality check. There will be consequences.
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