Can’t We All Just Get Along?
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
7/22/2019 9:17:43 AM
Get along? Apparently no—at least until after 2020. Two examples summarize why.
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice,” said U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one-quarter of “the squad” sowing havoc among Democrats in the House. “ We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need qu**rs that don’t want to be a qu**r voice.”Of the Republican Party, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said the other day: “It must
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MattMusson 7/22/2019 9:21:02 AM (No. 130493)
It is going to get worse before it gets better. Once campaigning is in full swing, look for Leftist violence against Trump supporters to ramp up dramatically.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/22/2019 9:49:36 AM (No. 130511)
How does any sane conservative get along with a foam-at-the-mouth leftist radical? Thank God for a bar-room brawler type like Trump! I liked the reference to “silk-stocking Republican Marquis of Queensberry rules...,”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 7/22/2019 9:51:46 AM (No. 130512)
Excellent article - must read! And I think a good part of the problem, is that conservatives have ALLOWED the left and the media to define who we are. Falsely, of course - but we too have failed to convey LOUDER that we are NOT the racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant, etc., etc. intolerant bunch that they claim we are. We have our concerns too, but any disagreement is dismissed out of hand. We are not allowed debate or even discussion, and our POV is so often distorted and falsified by media. So yeah - whirlwind.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/22/2019 10:00:54 AM (No. 130518)
Whites in the whites only line.
Blacks in the blacks only line.
Mezzicans in the Mezzican only line.
Muslims in the Muslim only line
What was this called in Alabama in the 50's ?
Oh yeh, Raycism.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
preciosodrogas 7/22/2019 10:02:28 AM (No. 130519)
How do you pronounce "qu**r?" Of course VDH is correct in his observations but nothing will deter the dem party and its cheerleaders, the msm, from their suicidal headlong dive into the trash can of American politics. They have chosen to follow the Four Idiots off the diving board. Good. They appear to have gone past the tipping point and there is no turning back for them. Good. After It's time Americans embraced their country for all the good it does and has done. Time to kick the anti-Americans out of office. It's been 50 years of hate. Time to give it a rest and appreciate what we have and work together to patch up the Liberty Bell. This world needs a healthy America.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LooseCannon 7/22/2019 10:30:09 AM (No. 130529)
Fabulous accounting of how evil and destructive the Left is. We, the good people of America, do not deserve what they have done to our beautiful country and founding ideals.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/22/2019 10:38:56 AM (No. 130533)
Dad always told me not to argue with crazy people,it only makes you look foolish. What it also does is give them a legitimacy they don't deserve.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 7/22/2019 10:54:29 AM (No. 130547)
When one group is bent on stealing from the other "getting along" is more like asking a rape victim to sit back and enjoy it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/22/2019 11:54:37 AM (No. 130600)
VDH has a long memory. President Trump is trying to stop the Long March of Cultural Marxism through our institutions. God has blessed US.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Wary American 7/22/2019 2:03:47 PM (No. 130681)
The only thing I see in the future, if ALLOWED to continue 'this way' where LAME STREAM MEDIA is able to foist all their steamy male bovine feces onto the (now) poorly educated young, is SMOKE from firearms raised up by Americans in support of the Founding Fathers...KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY AMERICANS.
Lincoln did it right: HE LOCKED THEM UP AND SHUT THEIR DOORS...if you can't tell the TRUTH-you should SHUT THE HELL UP.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
BillW. 7/22/2019 2:51:19 PM (No. 130746)
FTA: During the Proposition 187 frenzy in California, I never quite figured out why one of my students, here illegally from Mexico, waved the Mexican flag while participating in a ritual, free-speech area burning of the U.S. flag—all to showcase his anger at being exposed to deportation to Mexico. I suggested at the time he instead just carry a handwritten placard, “Please, I will do all I can from now on legally to stay in your wonderful country.”
What an analyst VDH is. MAGA
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 7/22/2019 3:35:12 PM (No. 130796)
And, #4, the ruling political Party was Democrat, as it was for most of the State's history until recently.
Agree that this should be a MUST READ, one of VDH's best among his always brilliant essays.
As for Bret Stephens pondering the wonders of the new immigrants (guess he's including illegals) who appreciate America, I suppose he's including Melania Trump, whom I've heard speak of her love for America AND Americans on several occasions.
He couldn't possibly be thinking of Omar...
We really are living in an alternate universe, a world of irrationality proclaimed somebody's own truth. It's like a people adrift at sea, who have run out of water, and have now started drinking from the salty ocean. Soon they become unable to determine what's real or not, they may see land, just a few yards from the boat, dive in to reach shore which they are certain is there, where fresh water and food abound, only to be devoured by sharks, while land is still hundreds of miles out of reach.
Being irrational is not okay. Irrational people governing a nation will steer the ship of state into disaster. People who just want to be nice and polite might as well man the oars to hasten the ship toward the jagged rocks of leftism/socialism/communism.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
obdurate 7/22/2019 3:36:16 PM (No. 130797)
I for one,have no intention of "getting along" with anyone attempting to change my country
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 7/22/2019 4:01:12 PM (No. 130827)
VDH at his best!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 7/22/2019 4:22:34 PM (No. 130850)
No, we cannot. And if the violent leftists keep expanding, being supported by the Enemedia and attacking ordinary Americans who dare to protest the leftist violence, they will be driving us towards a civil war.
I dearly hope that the law enforcement groups, starting at the national level with the FBI, will take on these violent thugs (antifa) and declare them a domestic terrorist organization. That would be a good start.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/22/2019 5:12:27 PM (No. 130886)
The Democrat socialists don’t want to get along with anyone who does not agree with their political agenda. What the Democrats socialists want to do is permanently take over the country and turn it into a socialist utopia. You would have to be a moron not to figure that out.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/22/2019 6:47:46 PM (No. 130940)
Mr. Bret Stephens of the New York Times wrote something much meaner than what The President said, and I'm thinking he might be talking about me when he writes about those "so-called real Americans". Don't really know his mind-set.
FTA:
"So-called real Americans are screwing up America. Maybe they should leave, so that we can replace them with new and better ones - newcomers who are more appreciative of what the United States has to offer, more ambitious for themselves and their children, and more willing to sacrifice for the future. In other words, just the kind of people we used to be - when we had just come off the boat."
Of course, immigration has changed quite a bit since our ancestors came off the boat (needless-to-say, that was the only way they could travel here then). I know that when those newcomers arrived, they had to have a home to come to - an aunt or some other relative who would vouch for them - that was a given; they had to be examined on Ellis Island to make sure they were physically fit or they could be sent back; there was no such thing as the welfare system as it is today - with housing and food stamps and medical care; anyway, that would be anathema for people I knew; they were too proud, too self-reliant to expect someone else to take care of them; and the breadwinners often had two jobs - a forty hour work week and then some other job on the weekend because they had to totally rely on themselves; and there was never a situation where they had any monies left over to send back to the old country because the monies earned was spent on rent and food and healthcare and schooling for the children. They were very aware that this was the land of opportunity and it was important for the children to get a good education, and, of course, always the faith - that is what kept them alive.
And I think most "so-called real Americans" still have the same beliefs.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 7/22/2019 8:03:09 PM (No. 130984)
Post 2020 election analysis will show that The Squad Of Four did more to turn out Trump voters than the promise of free healthcare college and $15/hr min wages and other things on their list of how they plan on destroying this nation. Their Anti-Americanism will be beaten down by America is Great and how keeping it great stirs the patriotic hearts and souls of American citizens that love this country. Pound sand girls.
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