What the Left Did to Our Country
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
9/4/2023 8:10:44 AM
In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood.
With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was empowered to transform the Democratic Party from its middle-class roots and class concerns into the party of the bicoastal rich and subsidized poor—obsessions with big money, race, a new intolerant green religion, and dividing the country into a binary of oppressors and oppressed.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/4/2023 8:50:26 AM (No. 1549026)
No doubt ,Obama was the worst president this country ever had, and he still is ,now that he is in his third term using Biden as his puppet. Soon the power in the democrat party will dump Biden and Harris and place Michelle Obama in their place and Obama will be running for his 4th term.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Samsquanch 9/4/2023 9:09:44 AM (No. 1549040)
Biteme doesn't care about destroying the country as long as he gets his ice cream and sits his scrawny A on the beach.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
blueline 9/4/2023 9:09:53 AM (No. 1549041)
If I could add to this great piece:
...and the GOP elite in CONgress & elsewhere continued to focus on enriching themselves and being beltway-loved, letting the country go to $%.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FJB 9/4/2023 9:11:53 AM (No. 1549043)
If Vietnam was 365 And-a-Wake-Up for those who served back then, America better wake up fast to what these traitors are doing to our nation right now. MAGA Patriots
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/4/2023 9:15:40 AM (No. 1549050)
I tend to agree with Bill Ayers on the solution. I just differ on who they need to be.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
plomke 9/4/2023 9:26:21 AM (No. 1549062)
No sir,it is what we allowed The Left to do to us through our complacency,greed and stupidity.
We allowed The Left to run riot through our educational and government institutions.
We allowed The Left to control our press.
We allowed The Left to control our religious institutions.
We let this happen when we were too busy to vote or attend a school meeting.
We let this happen when we failed to adhere to God and not man in our churches.
We let this happen when stock prices mattered more than people.
We let this happen...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/4/2023 9:29:02 AM (No. 1549067)
0bama was not just the worst President. he was THE enemy. And continues to be so. Misunderestimating him (to quote W) or the powers behind him was the worst mistake we have made as a country.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
FJB 9/4/2023 9:54:58 AM (No. 1549099)
As #6 and others have said for months, Marxist Pansy Barry Obama is America's worst mistake. EVER! And he ain't going away; thus, if President Trump survives to be elected next year, he might find himself in prison, just like those poor souls rounded up on J-6. --Ultra MAGA
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/4/2023 10:16:48 AM (No. 1549115)
I’m still dumbfounded that seven years after September 11, 2001 we elected a guy named Barack Hussein Obama who admitted to his Muslim faith live on television. What else did anyone expect when we put a Muslim in the White House? He has been pursuing his jiahd against us for 15 years.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 9/4/2023 10:52:08 AM (No. 1549152)
This country has no one to blame but themselves. They allowed the propaganda spewed by the media declaring we needed a 'first' black S*B to bring racial harmony to the populace.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 9/4/2023 11:34:46 AM (No. 1549183)
this explains everything that WE know..
but bullet points everything.. in a readable manner..
should be sent to everyone
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
kono 9/4/2023 12:01:24 PM (No. 1549198)
What the Left has done is violently derail our great nation, and an overview with perspective of the process of that train wreck is necessary for hysterical porpoises. I couldn't make it all the way through this, though, because I really don't feel like reliving that wreck while we're still going through it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ThreeBadCats3 9/4/2023 12:14:23 PM (No. 1549204)
Again, VDH mentions many of the low points of the “liberal” doctrine. Long gone are the attenuated but truthful opinions that once made National Review worthwhile. Sadly, his insights are not recommended reading for all. But happily, are published on Lucianne. We can thank our lucky stars for that.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/4/2023 1:29:12 PM (No. 1549265)
What they did was turn the country into a communist police state, and I hate them for it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 9/4/2023 2:44:32 PM (No. 1549301)
#1 is correct, and we will be talking about another stolen election after they “win” again.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
YorkieMom 9/4/2023 2:46:21 PM (No. 1549302)
#1 is correct, and we will be talking once again about a stolen election after they “win” again.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
lil dotty 9/4/2023 2:59:18 PM (No. 1549311)
The ELITE LEFT dreamed they were our rulers, our betters either wearing
a Maidenform or not....their choice.
When in fact THEY ARE NOT. The leftists in both parties are so old they can
hardly walk/speak and lie or freeze when having to speak to us in front of
a camera or a mic. WTP must come to our senses and oust these mealy mouth
politicians in order that our beloved USA is not ever again held under the thumb
of such EVIL warped minds. Take care when voting DO NO fall for their tricks
and gimmicks yet again. IT WILL COST US DEARLY. I'm no longer a republican, never was one of the Rats. I am now MAGA and will continue to VOTE that way.....
hopefully, if we ever get fair elections again. It will be MAGA from now till the day
I die. So there Joe Biden. You, are going to hell. Your journey has allready begun.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bmw50 9/4/2023 6:53:40 PM (No. 1549416)
This U.S. was known as a Christian nation, not because everyone was a Christian, but because the vast majority of its citizens embraced Christian values. Once the majority figured out they didn't have to follow those values and could pursue their own lusts, addictions, greed, etc., it was only a matter of time before our fall.
But what the majority and the elites forget, is that every life has an end, even them, 100%, and after that, the judgment. God is still on His throne, and every one of these corrupt godless people will have to answer to God, for their corrupt lives. If you don't think God is real or He cares about mankind, or about our future, then explain how Israel is a nation again, after over 1900 years of being scattered throughout the world with no country or home. Then miraculously, become a nation again, the take possession of Jerusalem; at about the same time this nation begins is departure from God and His values. Coincidence? Nope! No other nation has done that. But they did because God made sure they didn't lose their identity so they could. Their return was not an accident or by chance, God promised He would restore them, through His prophets, long before they were destroyed in AD70 by the Roman Empire. All those who think they are winning, by stealing power and wealth from the middle, the working class and from this once great nation will face God with corrupt and sinful lives. Ask then 10,000 year from now if it was worth it, and that will be just the start of their eternal destruction. I nor anyone should take pleasure in their destruction, but what we can take pleasure in, is that truth, righteousness and justice prevail in the end.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/5/2023 7:05:32 AM (No. 1549578)
FTA: “ The people are not. And they are starting to wake to the notion if they do not stop the madness in their midst they very soon won’t have a country.”
Once again, Dr. Hanson, I beg you to answer the question, how. Do you have the courage to support President Trump who appears to be the only guy with the will, determination and love for the country to put his entire life on the line, or is his speech to vulgar for you? We have one chance to get this right and we cannot afford to choose someone the people do not trust. All it would take if for Republicans and right minded people to band together to put their collective foot down and say, enough. You are a great man of influence. Can you openly support President Trump or will you succumb to pressure from the intelligentsia?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
raspberry 9/5/2023 8:33:51 AM (No. 1549648)
Ovomit has succeeded in his inaugural promise "of a fundamental transformation of America."
How sad we allowed it to happen.
And he is perfecting it from behind the screen through his agents in the White House and Federal agencies. They run the government, not Biden.
I fear for America.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/5/2023 9:17:38 AM (No. 1549676)
Out of the eleven key institutions VDH mentions, he left out the most crucial one - the judiciary. It's co-opting and corruption has enabled election theft to be upheld and justice denied. Otherwise the will of the People would long ago have swept this evil away.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/5/2023 10:05:11 AM (No. 1549716)
Remember General Patton's words...just move forward and stop whinning.....believe you can do it...and then DO IT!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
mifla 9/5/2023 10:38:10 AM (No. 1549742)
You have to give credit to the left. They have slowly taken control of the media, the public schools, the government, and the urban centers. Lot of apathy among conservatives.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
lennon47 9/5/2023 11:06:27 AM (No. 1549776)
#1...You're right ... it is sad. But what's really sad is stupid voters, with the help of fraud, this horrible female will win. Can you imagine mooch-hell preaching to us daily?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DebraAnn 9/5/2023 1:02:23 PM (No. 1549889)
@4, COUNT ME IN!! I don't know what we ever did to deserve this Obama/Biden catastrophe, but it is time to END it NOW!! Fellow L-Dotters, PLEASE... get out everyone you know to vote in 2024....I don't know when we have ever needed Real President Trump More. Please, Dear Lord, help us in this Holy Endeavour. Thank you, Dear Lord, from the bottom of my heart and soul.
2 people like this.
VDH is spot on the “money” as usual. We are doomed unless we can figure out a way to expunge the Jihad Junta and all of the Coup d’etat enablers.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 9/8/2023 9:04:40 PM (No. 1552327)
The US isn’t portrayed in the Bible at the end! I think we now know why! We will probably line up against Israel!
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