What Happens When the Madness Ends?
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
6/22/2020 10:32:17 AM
When something cannot go on, it certainly will not go on. But what are the symptoms of what cannot go on and when? There are two historic red lines and our revolution is getting close to both. When Normal People Grow Weary --One is when “average” people, both white and nonwhite, who identify neither with Left nor Right, woke nor unwoke, become frightened or appalled by the violence and the anarchy—and thus finally move to dismantle the guillotine as the razor increasingly starts haircutting friends, idols, and compatriots. Their verdict can be known either by demonstrating themselves, boycotting, voting, or massive civil disobedience.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mizzmac 6/22/2020 10:46:08 AM (No. 452841)
I hope he's right.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
EQKimball 6/22/2020 11:05:12 AM (No. 452861)
If the left takes over on November 3, it may be years before Hanson is proven correct.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
reefdiver 6/22/2020 11:05:26 AM (No. 452862)
When the silent Americans, who want the traditional values of freedom and equal justice back, they must make their voices heard. Vote out the anti-American power grabbers who want a divided America that they alone have control of. Inaction by the citizens who want sanity in governance, will result in a totalitarian state in which those citizens become slaves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
qr4j 6/22/2020 11:07:12 AM (No. 452865)
What Reply No. 1 says! I hope VDH is right. And he may be. But how long will the madness last?
Between COVID-19 and BLM/Antifa protests and looting, I've fed up to my back teeth with 2020 and all its craziness.
Democrat crazies can go to hell.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
David Key 6/22/2020 11:09:30 AM (No. 452866)
worse what if it doesn't end
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/22/2020 11:20:59 AM (No. 452879)
Disagree wholeheartedly.
VDH voiced this same opinion last week on cable TV -- the current debacle with stop when known, powerful Leftists are implicated. Not buying it.
They control the media. They've shown they can bury any story they want. The amnesiac VEEP has the wholehearted support of his party.
They're going to keep at it. Why? Because it pay. Hugely. Hundreds of millions in corporate payoff. Everybody wants in on the Jesse Jackson racket.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NYbob 6/22/2020 11:30:25 AM (No. 452886)
In every reality I've known this will end and normal will be the standard, but this world went down a different path since 2008 when the Fed invented QE1. Things have gotten stranger every year since. We seem to be in a total fantasy world of sudden pronouncements. Elected officials supporting outright anarchy. Official speech, Supreme court rulings that are completely anti-constitutional, etc.
I would not be surprised if the media has managed to turn just enough normal Americans into seething zombies of hate for all things left, to plunge the world into a new Dark Age. A lot of regular people we know have lost their minds. I can only hope that the reality of thugs taking over cities with the help of the rat party and the increasingly obvious desperation of the rat party who continue to insist that Hands Biden is not senile, will make otherwise normal people snap out of their insane hate for all things MAGA.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 6/22/2020 11:43:09 AM (No. 452900)
A couple of corrections to this excellent article:
It's Fort Bragg, North Carolina they want changed in name, and it's the Thermidorian Reaction, re: the French Revolution.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 6/22/2020 12:03:16 PM (No. 452922)
Thank you for posting this hopeful article, but we need remember that God is in charge and things are unfolding according to His plan and schedule. I'm reminded of the hymn verse: "Trust not in rulers, they are but mortal; Earthborn they are and soon decay. Vain are their counsels at life's last portal, When the dark grave engulfs its prey. Since mortals can no help afford, Place all your trust in Christ our Lord. Alleluia, Alleluia! "
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 6/22/2020 12:09:50 PM (No. 452925)
Disagree. This doesn’t end until conservatives end the left’s stranglehold on media and academia.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/22/2020 12:10:37 PM (No. 452926)
I'll go with option 3, Alex for $300. If we don't strike back before November 3rd we will surely have the incentive afterwards if Biden "wins." Law and order has already proven itself to be an imaginary ideal and the democrats/liberals/BLM puppets will only get worse under the puppetship of the democrats. We have the numbers and the weapons, we will show them what resistance is all about. Too many veterans out here have fought for too many years to give away this thing we call freedom.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 6/22/2020 12:13:16 PM (No. 452928)
This will end when the social justice and reactionary profiteers have wrung out all they can. So far $6 TRILLION have come into play during the COVIDS crisis. To salve the angry masses, PDT ordained an executive order banning chokeholds, and has yet to make an Oval Office speech reassuring America on the subjects that Americans must navigate daily. Seattle has surrendered six blocks to the anarchists. Law enforcement plays along. The media lies and hides truth despite its high ethics. Add your own bit to the list. It is a panoply of madness all around the "normal people" who look on with disbelieving goo goo googly eyes, complying to keep themselves out of the firing lines, expecting Constitutional rights to be respected by all.
For those who, like myself, believe this is all one manufactured cluster disaster to Dump Trump, the end may come in November...or be carried over for the next four years. The game from my view is to Dump Trump, cost no object, by a number of well-heeled interests, from radical libs to buttoned-down conservatives and their UNIPARTY partners. They've called out the domestic Dogs of War. More to follow.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/22/2020 12:14:38 PM (No. 452931)
The general election on November 3 will tell the short term story.
Unfortunately in the country today only about one percent of families have family members with the guts to join the military and take their chances on foreign battlefields serving under the American flag, with much of the rest lost in the wilderness. Not a good scenario if America has to someday go Mano to Mano against very tough foreign adversaries.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 6/22/2020 12:57:33 PM (No. 452967)
#2; The left has already taken over. November 3rd is when we decide if we do anything about it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 6/22/2020 1:04:09 PM (No. 452971)
Read Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” and you’ll find out how this will all end.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/22/2020 2:10:50 PM (No. 453041)
Hey Lucianne !!!!!!!
What's up with ...
inprodpos rely 16. Showing up here spamming with far too much regularity.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mushroom 6/22/2020 2:15:42 PM (No. 453045)
The minions will deal with it. Just click the report button.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RU4us 6/22/2020 2:49:31 PM (No. 453070)
Dr. Hanson forgot Alinsky's RULE 7: “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
"Don’t become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)"
Are these children waiting for the Democrats to reestablish their authority? Don't they realize hillary's husband (D), did not consult with wimpy state and local officials before sending federal tanks to massacre members of a strange church, rumored to have guns and molest children?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
3XALADY 6/22/2020 2:51:43 PM (No. 453075)
I'm not forgetting that there is an almost even split between libs and conservatives. I'm hoping more of the other side are sick of all that 2020 has dumped in our laps.
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My theory for how this got so far so fast is that the left already had gotten so out of control since Trump was elected, so outrageous, worse and worse, that it was way easier for BLM to step in and grab the moment and gain so much control. All the lefties are dumb in so many ways, and they saw this as their big chance to move right on in and start with their crazy demands and scary violent behaviors. But the root is the frenzy they had already gotten themselves into, emboldened by the success of AOC and the Squad, showing them how it’s done. So they started telegraphing what they are really all about and how they think and plan. But they are soon to discover how many millions of seething, steaming patriots there are in our America.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Republic Can 6/22/2020 10:07:02 PM (No. 453445)
"There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land;
But the people in their weeping
Bare the iron hand:
Beware the People weeping
When they bear the iron hand."
from The Martyr
by Herman Melville
April 15, 1865
Behold, the People Weeping.
We bear the iron hand.
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