The Symptoms of Our Insanity
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Garnet,
9/27/2021 10:15:03 AM
Think for a minute.
When did we become a nation of socialist AOCs wearing “Tax the Rich” dresses to $35,000-a-ticket celebrity galas, without mandatory masks, while being served by masked servants—a now tired script from the Obama birthday bash crowd to the grandees at the Emmys?
When did we discover that we must listen to oppressed billionaire Oprah from her $90 million Montecito estate commiserating with a billionaire Lebron or royal Meghan Markle about the racist white establishment? Is there anyone in the recent Washington intelligence and investigatory hierarchy who has not lied or feigned loss of memory under oath—
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 9/27/2021 10:21:10 AM (No. 927776)
Love VDH , hate the truth he writes .. makes me sick ..
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
usmc0302 9/27/2021 10:32:42 AM (No. 927791)
Couldn't have said it better #1
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Laotzu 9/27/2021 10:57:54 AM (No. 927831)
I Would have never have guessed that so many average Americans were constrained in their bad behavior only by the fear of getting caught. We are a nation of people who couldn't care less about doing good, but obsessed with being perceived as good. On Sunday morning, I was passed by 3 different vehicles doing 80 mph through a 55 mph construction zone only 1/2 mile long.
I would never have guessed that so many good Americans would sit idly by while their Country was coopted by criminal kleptocrats. Where are the Tea Party types who stood up and said, "no!" So many seem so concerned with protecting their gilded cage.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
VAPMAN 9/27/2021 11:04:02 AM (No. 927839)
How do we protest this insanity so well described by VDH ?
If we call out on our own we get cancelled.
If we protest in a large group we are either ignored by media or arrested as insurrectionists.
If we try to vote them out of office, they cheat with overwhelming numbers of mail in ballots.
We are becoming trapped. But like a trapped wild animal we could become very dangerous.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 9/27/2021 11:12:42 AM (No. 927856)
that third box requires a very high step to get up on it, but the pile of rubble surrounding it that was once our country makes it easier and easier
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sandpiper 9/27/2021 11:17:48 AM (No. 927866)
I just sat in a multi-hour conversion with two other women yesterday where we discussed many of the points brought up by VDH. We see it! As Number 4 has so well pointed out we feel powerless to do anything to stop what is happening. We aren’t stupid though - we also see looming hunger in the future and we are preparing accordingly.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Kutchk 9/27/2021 11:33:58 AM (No. 927882)
We no longer punish criminals with deterrence in mind.
So criminals continue in their ways undeterred … no matter the severity of their crimes.
The new Afghan government took no time in showing us how they would keep criminals out of their government.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/27/2021 11:40:15 AM (No. 927889)
FTA: "Did anyone just five years ago believe the following could possibly happen in America—and invoke almost no popular outrage from a somnolent public?" I believe the "somnolent public" is the most important observation of the article.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/27/2021 12:11:35 PM (No. 927927)
A brilliant dissection of current events by the estimable and brilliant Dr. Hanson - as usual. He is exactly, and sadly, correct.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/27/2021 12:20:23 PM (No. 927937)
It is impossible for a Godless society to reap God's rewards. That is just the way Creation works. Seventy years ago our wise men on the Supreme Court jettisoned God from our schools, and nine years ago the Democratic Party formally rejected God even being mentioned in their political platform. Instead of God's Word forming conscience and creativity our learned writers, entertainment producers, academics and teachers, politicians and "wealth gospel" preachers have chosen progressive evils in their search for the meaning of man without a Creator. God does not punish, He allows the just consequences of actions to occur.
When evil is ascendant its actually a good sign for God's Children. We cannot save our country until we start saving souls, and we can't save other souls until we save our own. We must keep our focus on the spiritual warfare that is the root of our dysfunction. Believers should "check-in" with God throughout the day with prayer, reading and meditating on Scripture so they are attuned to the workings of the Holy Spirit that will guide their actions. In the mysterious ways of God, persecution is our most successful recruitment tool.
Western civilization can triumph or slide into another Dark Age. Either way, embracing our Judaeo-Christian heritage is our salvation. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kumoan 9/27/2021 6:38:28 PM (No. 928253)
"...Or do these symptoms of long-standing illnesses arise from the media and university, where the twins of incompetence and ideology ruined the critical consciousness of an entire generation of young minds? "
All five lights lit up on that one...pay the man!
It is beyond disgusting that those very same institutions that helped an intelligent man such as VDH to gain insite, knowledge and the ability to think critically, have now descended beyond the gutter, mass producing unquestioning, uneducated, irredemmable, loathsome charicatures of citizens of western civilization solely intent on destroying that which nurtured them.
I hope I survive long enough to witness the fate that communists habitually submit their useful idiots too.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/27/2021 7:00:23 PM (No. 928275)
One possible starting point prior to the (inevitable) violence is a national Just Say No campaign. No to masks, vaxxes, lockdowns, etc. at all levels of government. Do not comply. It should have started last year.
As for the invasion on our borders, meet violence with violence. Take back our streets. Deal with our domestic traitors in government. We know who they are.
Pipe dream? Probably, because it will take hundreds of thousands of participants. That won't happen.
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