10 New Rules Which Are Changing America

I’m not sure why Victor David Hanson’s articles don’t get more comments. IMHO, he is the best guest on Fox, bar none. He’s the real deal.  A real smarty. Doesn’t have one single neocon cell in his body. He hits it out of the park with this short piece.  Maybe Civil War IS the only solution …. a peaceful Civil War, of course!

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Today’s 10 rules in America

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.

Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.

2.) Laws are not necessarily binding any more. 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.

Crime rates do not necessarily matter. If someone is carjacked, assaulted or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim’s fault as the perpetrator’s. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker. How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.

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.

Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous covid-19 rules. Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine. Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America. Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the “founders” than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.

5.) Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children. They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote. “Noble lies” by our elites about covid-19 rules are necessary to protect “Neanderthals” from themselves.

Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing and normative rules of school behavior. They still are clueless about why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating and air conditioning.

6.) Hypocrisy is passe. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities. Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism and homophobia. The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.

7.) Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it. It is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, defecate and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill and create sufficient public shelter areas.

8.) McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers. Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.

Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act or look away from losing their livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion. The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the woke.

9.) Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project require any evidence or historical knowledge. Heroes of the past were simple constructs. Undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge. The brand, not what created it, is all that matters.

10.) Wokeness is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity. Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy and exercises far more power. Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Twitter are the new gospels.

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.

SOURCE: arkansasonline.com

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Fish
Fish

McCarthy did nothing wrong though. He was right, very much so and his witch trials were much more subtle than their anti-white cult of wokeism.
The only point I don’t agree with is the point on cultists. My theory os that the woke worship the government as an institution. The politicians are this cult’s representatives on Earth. That is the politicians that are in the cult already. The oligarchs in the media and the tech are the cult’s instruments and the scientists are its clergy in the way that they explain the cult’s beliefs. They translate the word of God, I mean all of them do and set up the dogma. Everyone outside the cult is a heretic.
Heretics need to die for the cult to bring the peace on Earth. The original sin is being white but if a white is not a heretic they are accepted as the lower tier of the cult. Black people are the chosen people and all of the militarized part of the cult like the Police and military are able to bring havoc on the heretics only. No touching the chosen people.

Anonymous
Anonymous

McCarthy was sabotaged by the jews working on his side. I don’t know if he intended to be a sideshow, but it kind of looks that way from this far in the future.

Looking at the names on the ‘blacklists’, it’s amazing how when you make a list of traitors and subversives, it ends up filled with jews and homosexuals.

Old School Counselor

Correct and he was very popular.

Gloriously Deplorable Paul
Gloriously Deplorable Paul

VDH is a national treasure. His knowledge and use of logic and facts are irrefutable. Thus, the left can only try to make him irrelevant by ignoring him.
We shouldn’t. We would all do well to absorb his ideas and put them into practice.

clayusmcret
clayusmcret

In answer to your question, VDH’s articles can be novels when short stories would do (this one is an exception). He reminds me of Rand; says a lot of good that could have been a much shorter better. As I get older my attention span shortens and when I’m already tired and only halfway through a long VDH article, truth is I move on. Probably not what people want to hear, but that’s why I don’t comment a lot on his pieces.

Ken31
Ken31

The sooner people can accept that race is part of our biological identity and that our behavior is included in that, the sooner we can accept the concept of racism as superfluous.

francis michael
francis michael

If enough Americans stand up and publically “Just say no” to this nonsense it will fade to the dustbin of history. The push is so strong to fundamentally transform our country at this time because the powers that be see that the majority of us have had enough of their crap and the time is getting short.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

“If enough Americans….”

‘If’ ands and butts were candy and nuts, lol.

“….see that the majority of us have had enough of their crap and the time is getting short.”

Sounds a bit like a fairy tale, Pope. There doesn’t seem to be a ‘majority’ of anything anymore.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <——==== thank a freemason

francis michael
francis michael

That’s what the English thought.

ordo ab chao
ordo ab chao

“That’s what the English thought.”

We ain’t playin’ with muskets anymore…..

Apologies for being a bit of a smartass, Francis. I grow weary of how many people are ignorant as to the spiritual forces operating behind the veil.

annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—–====

“Masonry, like all the Religions, all the Mysteries, Hermeticism and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve only to be misled; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light from them and to draw them away from it. p.104-5”

Pike, Albert, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

A quote from Manly P. Hall: The Secret Destiny of America-[on Francis Bacon's plans]:

"Bacon quickly realized that here in the new world was the proper environment for the accomplishment of his great dream, the establishment of the philosophic empire. It must be remembered that Bacon did not play a lone hand; he was the head of a secret society including in its membership the most brilliant intellectuals of his day. All these men were bound together by a common oath to labor in the cause of a world democracy. Bacon’s society of the unknown philosophers included men of high rank and broad influence. Together with Bacon, they devised the colonization scheme."

“They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness”
― Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff

“The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine illumination of his lodge that as Mason his religion must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the oneness of all spiritual truth. All true Masons know that they only are heathen who, having great ideals, do not live up to them. They know that all religions are but one story told in divers ways for peoples whose ideals differ but whose great purpose is in harmony with Masonic ideals. North, east, south and west stretch the diversities of human thought, and while the ideals of man apparently differ, when all is said and the crystallization of form with its false concepts is swept away, one basic truth remains: all existing things are Temple Builders, laboring for a single end. No true Mason can be narrow, for his Lodge is the divine expression of all broadness. There is no place for little minds in a great work.”
― Manly P. Hall

Steve
Steve

I see very few standing up to this. Let’s hope the pendulum swings back.

Thersites
Thersites

A pendulum is a metaphor that is often and incorrectly invoked as it implies hopeful stability where one does not exist. In relation to our freedoms, the pendulum has been swinging away from them for 250 years. Historically past cultures did not typically swing back to freedom but collapsed and the the survivors rebuilt.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The pendulum swings, but the clock itself moves ever leftward.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I think he doesn’t get much commentary because he tends to make fairly mild articles, at least that I’ve seen.

He’s wrong about racialism. Racialism is the greatest enemy of all time — White racialism. The hatred of it is at the core of the new religion.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load

Race is, has been and always will be, a problem.

Lars
Lars

Race need not be a problem if firm boundaries are set and mutually respected.

Mygirl....maybe

Race became a major problem when the first black man was elected president. The majority of his reign was focused on stirring up racial strife, demonizing white people while elevating black thugs to the status of being ‘his sons.’ How many White House visits did he give Sharpton and Jackson? Holder, his Atty General, sent crews out to Ferguson to teach the yokels how to better riot and play the race card for all it was worth. Holder also went out of his way to punish white ‘criminals’ and gave black criminals a pass for the exact same crimes.

The great irony was how Obama claimed the US was a racist country and yet this racist country somehow elected his half black ass to the highest office in the land.

Dan_of_Reason
Dan_of_Reason

Why, oh why, do we elevate the molecule melanin to be a god? It is almost that there is a deceiver, who deceives.

francis michael
francis michael

Dumb comment imho, racialism and racism are constructs of politicians and governments to divide and conquer peoples. Where in nature is there harmony between species? Take two friendly dogs and place one bowl of food and see what happens. Humans are no different and never have been. That is what the powers that be count on.

Crawfisher
Crawfisher

In reference to #1 only, this comes to mind….
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”
― Ayn Rand

The US can create fiat money as long as it is accepted in the world. The day that stops, is SHTF day.
No one seems to know when that will be, so party on dude!

Thersites
Thersites

This short clip from VDH should be legendary.

starfcker
starfcker
Anonymous
Anonymous

destroy twitter

do I need a hashtag for that? I actually never use twitter.

Yahsure
Yahsure

People are stupid.

John Doe
John Doe

Anybody who has watched previous Victor Davis Hanson discussions on Fox knows this man is highly intelligent. He does not pull punches and uses vocabulary that few possess in this day & age. I was glad to see this article making the rounds on many platforms. We need more honest, intellectually gifted people like him to wake up the masses.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Joe executed the immigration laws. They are dead. Biden not McCarthy. Joe McCarthy was right as far as he went.

Old School Counselor

I believe VDH still has one foot in an old paradigm.

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