OP-ED Why Are They Destroying Us? (Victor d. Hanson)

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Victor Davis Hanson
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Why Are They Destroying Us?



If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?

Here are eleven now familiar steps to civilizational destruction:

1) Wipe out a 2,000 mile border. Allow 10-million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let toxic drugs in that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support for those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes.

2) Run up $35 trillion in national debt. Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane.

3). Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China. Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the UN, ICC, and WHO to atone forpast American neocolonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline.

4) In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation. Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Redefine all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion, and commendation.

5) Redefine violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice. Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if slain police-officers.

6). Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation. Deliberately smear as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population—so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their Commander-in-Chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists.

7) Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents. Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court Justices, attack them personally by name.

8) Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electric media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship, and coercion. Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people.

9.) Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas. Substitute inefficient, unreliable, and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices bankrupt the middle class.

10.) Marry late, but preferably not at all. Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms.

11.) Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers. Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissarbloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.

So why are those controlling Biden using him to advance much of such a destructive agenda that would end America as we know it?

1) They are delusional and think their socialist and globalist agendas are working and will save us.

2) They are raging nihilists who do not like the U.S. and deliberately want it destroyed as a service to the world. A ruined U.S. is preferable to a strong America.

3) They are Jacobin revolutionaries who are intentionally erasing the old United States as a prerequisite for creating an entirely new America that will arise from the ashes with no trace or even memory of its past.

4) They have no agenda. They are aimless fools, and utter incompetents. These bunglers just wing it day-to-day, in response to what their radical media, academic, and political masters dictate is necessary for them to retain power. They have no idea of the damage they are doing.

5. A bit of 1-3, but probably not 4.
 

Plain Jane

Just Plain Jane
I've been listening to a variety of podcasts on geopolitics. A consensus opinion expressed is that world leaders do not know who to talk to in the United States. Everyone in the government is either ill informed, belligerent, basically not dealing with reality.

It is scary.
 

progressingamerica

Contributing Member
"Why Are They Destroying Us?"

Because they can. We haven't stood up to stop them since 2010.

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This month as I type is April. I know of zero planned events on April 15th. None.
 

Bud in Fla

Veteran Member
I wonder if they really think our enemies are going to love them after they've committed treason against their own country?

Once the US is officially done for, they'll be the next to be eliminated. They've proven they can't be trusted! I just hope the survivors in the US remember who & what they are if any manage to escape the firing squads & hangings. They'll probably wish they hadn't escaped.
 

alchemike

Veteran Member
The number of high level officials in business, government, healthcare, education, etc., who have been compromised and are now either part of the cult or being blackmailed is hard to know, but it is large. Just look at the names of the people hanging around Epstein, Sean Combs...there are plenty of others who remain operational.

So that's playing in, as well...but not a whisper about it from the left or right, nor any of their media lapdogs.
 

Toosh

Veteran Member
The number of high level officials in business, government, healthcare, education, etc., who have been compromised and are now either part of the cult or being blackmailed is hard to know, but it is large. .
I have only recently become aware just how large this is. And it's at all levels, local, regional and national.

What I can't figure out is how we will recover - how will we re-build the trust...how will I ever feel good again about a vaccine...how can I recommend my grandkids attend public school...how will I choose to eat this over that because the FDA recommends it ... how can I make fundamental decisions when I feel the the news and information is likely biased or manipulative?
 

progressingamerica

Contributing Member
Because "planned events" have worked so well in the past. Why oh WHY aren't more people pointlessly beating their brains against a wall?

At least in terms of the Tea Party, they did in fact work very well. It was the most successful era of conservatism, besides when Schlafly defeated the ERA - which was also defeated because of protests.

We all know what that building is in the background of this protest.

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Squib

Veteran Member
Excellent OP.

But I also think there’s a combination of motivations in play:

While there are focused and coordinated groups with clear agendas, I think much of the street level muscle is not privy to the final goal…

They are simply an assorted multitude of angry, wicked, lazy, stupid people hell bent on destruction.

Sociopaths/psychopaths at the core, but the fringes are lawless, immoral godless people.

They're the shock troops that are and will be used in the on going, and intensifying conflict.

Put another way, they’re the enemy of good, decent, productive people.

Most of us will never be able to strike at the top tier demonic leadership class, but the low level, useful idiots…it’ll be kill or be kill.
 

Zahra

Veteran Member
They want a banana democracy.
That would be an improvement over what they're really aiming at -- they want a neofeudal totalitarian transhumanist global govt - and all of us (those who survive that is) are supposed to be the new serf/slave caste.
 

ssbn642blue

Veteran Member
I have only recently become aware just how large this is. And it's at all levels, local, regional and national.

What I can't figure out is how we will recover - how will we re-build the trust...how will I ever feel good again about a vaccine...how can I recommend my grandkids attend public school...how will I choose to eat this over that because the FDA recommends it ... how can I make fundamental decisions when I feel the the news and information is likely biased or manipulative?
Just like our Founders did, trust your gut. " How can I". Make your own answers. Don't trust others to do it for you...
 
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