Our Parasitic Generation
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
12/12/2022 10:33:53 AM
Are we sure that there is all that much ruin left in the United States?
We are $31 trillion in collective debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military is politicized and short of recruits. We trade lethal terrorists for woke celebrity athletes as if to confirm our enemies’ cynical stereotypes.
Our FBI is corrupt and discredited, collaborating with Silicon Valley contractors to suppress free speech and warp elections. We practice segregation and racial discrimination and claim we do not because the right and good people support it and, anyway, the victims deserve it. The country has seen defeat before but never abject, deliberate humiliation as in Kabul
Reply 1 - Posted by:
philsner 12/12/2022 11:04:07 AM (No. 1354797)
"...We all know it is true, and we all know the FBI and Department of Justice know it is true, and we know further that the truth means nothing."
"We know the solution is to deter crime by assured punishment for the guilty."
We know all of this, and still we do nothing.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JonR 12/12/2022 11:21:14 AM (No. 1354814)
“All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing!”
We are undone from within!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mifla 12/12/2022 11:29:48 AM (No. 1354819)
History shows that after nations that achieve a high level of affluence, they turn to the left and that is the start of their decline. Our left hand blinker has been on for a while.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/12/2022 11:35:06 AM (No. 1354832)
“The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the LAST great experiment for promoting human happiness." — George Washington. (All caps for LAST is my emphasis).
As I know history, nothing good will come after our cultural, spiritual, and political degradation to ruin. God gave Man stewardship of the earth, and he made a fine mess of it. Now God will take it back, hopefully soon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ASAvet 12/12/2022 12:24:37 PM (No. 1354874)
Kruschev is in his grave laughing his a$$ off. He warned us sixty years ago that Communism would bury us from within without firing a shot.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Quigley 12/12/2022 12:26:41 PM (No. 1354876)
Trump didn’t do nothing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
nh23847 12/12/2022 12:33:41 PM (No. 1354881)
The camels are on the horizon. “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I ride a Mercedes, my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover…but my great-grandson is going to have to ride a camel again.
Why is that? – Sheik Rashid, founder of Dubai went on to explain:
“Hard times create strong men; strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men; weak men create difficult times. Many will not understand it, but you have to raise warriors, not parasites.”
The camels are definitely on the horizon.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/12/2022 1:20:23 PM (No. 1354909)
VDH paints a picture of a country sliding rapidly down the slope of no return once experienced by Babylon, Greece, Rome, Egypt and many others. Can we recover?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 12/12/2022 3:27:52 PM (No. 1354995)
I appreciate VDH’s eloquence regarding everything that has happened in this country. However, what we need now is a solution. What do we do now? Our country is imploding and we sit here on our devices mentally wringing our hands while the nation is on fire. Who has the firehose we need? Please, VDH point us in the right direction for meaningful answers. We already know what the problems are.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bad-hair 12/12/2022 6:55:11 PM (No. 1355090)
And yet VDH you are still in California.
Move
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/13/2022 1:39:00 PM (No. 1355705)
Man, what a sad reminder of just how horrible things have gotten in this country, all due to Dimocrat dystopian ideals. And yet, as horrible as it sounds as you read it, I cannot help but think VDH is really understating the reality. He certainly is NOT exaggerating. Everything really is as bad as he describes, and worse. There are pockets of decency still left in America, but not in Blue regions.
Nothing is going to get better as our election integrity approaches zero% in critical precincts. I despise dimocrats with a purple passion, only exceeded by my feelings for the RINOs who help them.
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