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10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America
Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.
Victor Davis Hanson: The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America — The Patriot PostAmericans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them.
1 Apr 2021 ~~ By Victor David Hanson
There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.
1) Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.
3) Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality. The explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of “good” racism. Falsely being called a racist makes one more guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.
4) The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen. The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America’s founding and history. Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws.
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~Snip~Americans privately fear these rules while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.
The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.
Comment:
As usual Professor Hanson is quite accurate and astute in his assessement of today's political atmosphere and positions.
The warping has begun. In a few years, this country will be something no one in their right mind ever imagined it would become.
I believe one of Trump’s failings was not having control of his own social media channels. I don’t believe he ever imagined that free speech would be turned off in America by conglomerate Techies like Twitter, Facebook and Google..
Trump helped make Twitter universal and then the Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Leftists shut him off.
This has become One helluva sleigh ride. All most of us can do is to hang on tight to the most secure point that can be reached on the sleigh, and hope it does not go over a cliff on the way down.
Sometimes it is hard to distinguish pessimism from reality.
Many of those heMcCarthy wanted investigated were TRAITORS to this country. Some of these people were actively engaged in espionage for the Soviet Union. They also manipulated U.S. foreign policy to the benefit of the communists.
For example, they maneuvered to cut off aid to the Chinese nationalists in order to betray China to Mao Zedong's communists. This betrayal and abandonment left mainland China in the hands of the Communists and the nationalists fled to the island of Taiwan.
More than 50 years later, the betrayal continues and is still in existence but it has now penetrated deep into the fabric of society - Hollywood, Sports, Technology, Education and even our government ( I am looking at folks like Eric Swalwell ).
Equity and not Equality is becoming the mantra of the Porgessive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Left which equates to visions of Venezuela as the future for America under PMS/DSA Democrat Leftist Oligarchy.