American Paralysis and Decline
Real Clear Politics,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
3/3/2024 2:45:58 AM
We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies."
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become corrupt and lawless.
But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration -- and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy -- made it impossible to save the patient.
America is nearing such an impasse.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
plomke 3/3/2024 2:54:36 AM (No. 1669282)
Day late and a dollar short Doc...
We might have stopped the decline sixty years ago.
But that would put too many hippies(the sons and daughters of our elite) in prison for drugs and rioting.
The sons and daughters of the hippies are in charge now and its full speed toward the workers paradise that Lenin,Stalin,Mao,and Pol Pot promised...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 3/3/2024 4:36:58 AM (No. 1669293)
Victor Davis Hanson is our great American seer. I pray that his safety and the safety of his family continues, in these truly politically dangerous times. Remember Cicero.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chumley 3/3/2024 5:16:03 AM (No. 1669310)
Instead of vaccines that kill targeted ethnic groups, maybe the CIA should look into ones that kill pedophiles or corrupt politicians. That would fix our problem pretty quick.
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Truth!
We are progressing our way to ruin.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
spacer 3/3/2024 8:02:44 AM (No. 1669383)
Yeah the frog and the warm pot of water thing yet...yet America is standing by for our cheer leader, our knight in shining armor, our bareknuckle brawler. We are ready willing and able. That person is on the war path and we are behind him. We are Americans not Romans . MAGA
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
privateer 3/3/2024 8:48:25 AM (No. 1669403)
FTA: 'So it leaves the next generation to be smeared as "cruel" and "unfair" when it is forced to cut federal entitlements and bloated government or face civilizational collapse.' But that is exactly what the Evil Left is forcing on us, collapse. Like developers who desire to replace a derelict building, on a valuable piece of real estate, they know they must first acquire the property, next demolish the building, clear the site, and then erect their incomparably beautiful 'Shrine Of Communism' on the spot. Soebarkah got the deed to the land, the Vegetable is doing the demo. Who will build the shrine?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/3/2024 11:20:48 AM (No. 1669494)
The final leg of America's descent into National Suicide began in November, 2020.
The ones I pity are those poor souls who really believe that "America's best days are ahead."
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/3/2024 12:03:48 PM (No. 1669545)
'Slowly, then suddenly'
I could see what was happening up until September 10th '01. Then, at 9AM next day, I came here to L.com and read that a jet had hit the WTC. It happened suddenly.
Since then, I never know what to expect when I get my coffee and read the news, but I suspect it will be sudden. Then we'll all go back to sleep,.. if we're not dead.
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kono 3/3/2024 2:10:00 PM (No. 1669666)
That fall in #7 (the fall out of the tree of liberty) probably began earlier than that; but our plummet has been paused a few times on the way down by grabbing a few branches (like Trump and Reagan) or hitting other branches (like the Bushes, no pun intended). One might suggest that we hit the ground with Obama's admins, and that Trump45 was the proverbial 'dead cat bounce'. I.e. we may already be a heap of national wreckage, while the carrion gather 'round to feast on our carcass.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 3/3/2024 2:13:25 PM (No. 1669670)
Had a thought a while back. Nothing lasts forever. Not sure what brought it on or where it came from, but it's there now. Sadly, I think that thought 'Nothing lasts forever' will include the United States. We will all be witness to it. Our problems are insurmountable. What brought them on is human nature. You can't fix stupidity. You can't fix dishonesty.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TXknitter 3/3/2024 2:55:13 PM (No. 1669690)
We the people failed to do the necessary and diligent oversight of what our elected officials at all levels DID as opposed to what they pledged at campaign time. We have kept known crooks, cowards, and self-serving career politicians in House and Senate. We are reaping exactly what we have sown. I believe the election and then reelection of Barack Obama began our real trajectory downward.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/3/2024 10:05:46 PM (No. 1669873)
Do not dismiss the effect of the Lamestream Media in the destruction of our Republic.
Any time anyone tries to fix any one of the problems staring us in the face, the Media goes into Overdrive to DEMONIZE them.
Remember when G.W. Bush tried to get Congress to pass laws allowing people to put Some of their Social Security tax money in their OWN account? Remember when Trump announced that he was going to Build the WALL? Those are only two of an endless series of examples. In every case, the Lamestreams do everything to DEMONIZE and DESTROY the people working to prevent the COLLAPSE of our once-great America.
As far as I can tell, the REAL rot started with Lyin' Lyndon Johnson and his 'Great Society' welfare laws, which destroyed black families on an Industrial scale and led to the social collapse in the Democ'RAT cities and the creation of the Welfare State, which in turn led to the impending Financial COLLAPSE that we are facing today.
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