Guest Post by Victor Davis Hanson
Americans are growing angrier by the day, but in a way different from prior sagebrush revolts such as the 1960s Silent Majority or the Tea Party movement over a decade ago.
The rage this time is not just fueled by conservatives. For the first time in their lives, Americans of all classes and races are starting to fear a self-created apocalypse that threatens their family’s safety and the American way of life.
The border is not just porous as in the pre-Trump past. It is arguably nonexistent. Some 2 million people may cross illegally in the current fiscal year, according to reports — with complete impunity. There is zero effort to stop them. Officials hector Americans daily to get vaccinated and tested for COVID-19. But they are mute about illegal entrants, some of them no doubt infected with the virus.
Have we ever had a president who made no pretense about destroying federal immigration law and asking of Americans what he does not ask of those entering the country illegally?
Joe Biden has also conceded that his moratorium on housing evictions defied a Supreme Court ruling. He added that he probably didn’t have the legal authority to ignore the court but didn’t really care.
As in the case of demolishing immigration law, the president seems either unaware or proud that he is insidiously dismantling the Constitution.
America has also never before seen such overt and multifaceted efforts to undermine the foundations of free-market capitalism.
At a time of resurging GDP, low unemployment and record worker shortages, Biden has announced that renters can continue to avoid paying what they owe their landlords — even after a prior year of free housing.
In a rebounding economy amid record debt, the government is still sending workers unemployment benefits that are more remunerative than the paychecks they would earn if employed.
Such insanity not only means that labor-short employers can’t provide goods and services to American consumers; the new ethos also institutionalizes the pernicious idea that it is smarter to stay home and be idle than to get a job and be productive.
Biden is also considering further extending exemptions for the repayment of $1.7 trillion in student loans. That amnesty will only further mainstream this growing notion that borrowing money entails no legal or moral obligation to pay it back.
No one seems to acknowledge that both students and the universities that lured them to borrow knew the risks they were taking. Meanwhile, millions of American youth, the working classes who choose not to attend college, and those who paid off their loans or whose parents saved enough over the years to cover their tuition obligations will subsidize the debt evaders by paying higher taxes.
Inflation is roaring back. Soaring prices are a direct result of incentivizing the unemployed not to work, while discouraging manufacturers and producers of food, gas, oil, timber, mineral and metals.
Rising crime rates are likewise not accidental. Increasing crime is the logical result of releasing thousands of criminals from prison, defunding and defaming the police, and empowering woke mayors and prosecutors to contextualize crime as the fault of society, not the criminal.
In response, millions of Americans now simply avoid the mayhem of big cities in blue states.
Race relations have regressed 50 years. Under the fad of critical race theory, the color of our skin is now deemed essential to who we are.
Most Americans still integrate and assimilate, and many intermarry. But the current woke revolution is an elite, top-down effort to smear a self-critical and always improving nation as some sort of contemporary racist hellhole.
George Orwell would say of these cultural Marxists that they grab power in the present to reinvent the past in order to control our futures.
All this multifaceted chaos is not just faculty lounge stuff. We are beginning to see the collective craziness filter down to disruptions in our everyday lives.
Airliners cannot take off due to fuel shortages. Automobiles, houses, gas and lumber are in short supply.
Consumers can’t get their roofs fixed, their houses painted or their trees trimmed, as employers plead with their idle, government-subsidized employees to come back to work.
Many Americans have lost faith in the FBI, the CIA, the Pentagon, the CDC and most of the other federal bureaucracies, which are as politicized as they are incompetent.
What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps daily life. If we don’t wake up from wokeness, we will continue on our sure trajectory to self-inflicted, systemic paralysis — followed by civilizational collapse.
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Don’t forget we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Start at the 4:30 point and see if he doesn’t make you want to replay the whole thing.
I remember before I was born we were at war with Eurasia.
Found this elsewhere this morning, thought it was fairly insightful-
Woke culture is WEAPONIZED PSYCHOLOGY designed to paralyze your natural defense instincts. This is obvious once you make the following connection. You may wonder why you did not recognize it sooner.
Woke culture trains us in the following 3 ways. You are already familiar with all of these, but might not have made the connection to the 3 human defense instincts that are targeted by each of these components of wokeness training:
#1: If you are alarmed by a situation, this is now called “anxiety” and requires corrective therapy (so called “mental health support”).
#2: Don’t raise issues or use terms that may UNSETTLE people (avoid “triggers”).
#3: Don’t express or permit others to express even a mildly aggressive response to a perceived situation (“aggression” and “toxic masculinity”)
-The REAL purpose of training #1 is to paralyse your natural instinct for threat recognition, by gaslighting any kind of threat recognition as an abnormality.
-The REAL purpose of training #2 is to prevent members of the population communicating a recognized threat to other members of the population. This defeats a natural survival mechanism found in all members of the animal kingdom, including humans.
-The REAL purpose of training #3 is to target and remove your natural fight-or-flight response so that you will remain PLACID when actors make moves against you.
You MUST understand that “wokeness” was never designed to be a system of morality. That’s why calling out the moral hypocrisy of woke groups is a waste of time.
The current “anti-hate” movement is just side-show, and has no moral consistency because (1) that’s not its purpose, and (2) its very nature leads to immoral and entitled people taking advantage of people’s weakened defences as a by-product rather than the end-game. The whole purpose of the “anti-hate” movements is to legitimize woke culture as a means of keeping the population docile. That’s why it began to be implemented in schools and the media years in advance of the pandemic.
ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A WEAPON THAT HAS BEEN USED AGAINST YOU, YOU WILL BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE BEHIND MANY TACTICS THAT HAVE BEEN USED TO INDOCTRINATE THOSE AROUND YOU.
You will also understand why the population has remained so passive despite everything that has been happening lately, ESPECIALLY members of the population who have willingly accepted the training.
Boom.
It’s the greatest hack of human nature of all time.
I am ashamed at having let myself sort of fall for it. Mostly I have not really been in too many situations where I have had to confront people trying to enforce this shit. I think that was through considerable subconscious effort.
A real-world example of those three principals can be seen in the BJ Baldwin family story from 4/22/21.
Or rather, they are the antithesis of them.
Recognizing the threat, communicating that threat, and taking action to neutralize it.
We all pray that we would have similar capabilities given the same circumstances.
The point taken from your previous article: self-responsibility.
All the ethics literature trying to consider Wokeness from the 60s-90s was considered embarrassing for the authors because they were so easily dismantled and contrary to established principles. Some of them would even sort of apologize as they made embarrassing arguments. It was all bizarre and I am not familiar with events after that.
The ethics academic field itself was invented to be a control mechanism. The idea is being able to appoint “experts” with presumed authority to be able to control what others can and cannot do through “ethics boards” and such. That doesn’t mean the philosophy underneath isn’t valuable.
When someone tries to tell us that BS, we just look back incredulously and chuckle, while turning away. Guess you can say ignorance is bliss. Humiliate them, that’s effective.
Marc, several years ago realized they really, really want to kill us. That’s when I grew up and chamged my whole lifestyle. We’re not as far along as you are but are progressing out here on our Sea Island Marsh House.
Is VDH stuck in the 90s?
“Most Americans still integrate and assimilate, and many intermarry.”
I assume he means newly-minted hyphen-Americans, and he makes it sound like a good thing. Disgusting.
I know. People were still considering that plausible in the 90s. The evidence is in and everyone not brainwashed can see it.
He’s questionable at best. Despises, despises The South. And lives in a failed state – CALI.
The Silent Majority of the 60’s…I thought that was during the 80’s ?
What started out as elite woke nonsense now warps daily life.
This wasn’t “nonsense”.
It is an orchestrated plan from the beginning.
They worked on the plan for decades in academia.
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He lost me at the Big Lie of “Free market capitalism”. I have yet to see anyone demonstrate that such a system is feasible or desirable. It is just cover to run other rackets.
The Wealth of Nations is only applicable to a nation that is a nation (racial) and enforces borders and does not make of foreign trade a virtue.
Hmmmm. President Trump was threatened with impeachment for making phone calls and other trivia.
Biden has threatened the very security of the nation with open borders and a dozen other absurdities.
When are the impeachment proceedings going to start?
Not only are the infected with Covid-19, but with TB, Hepatitis, etc. You name it they’re bringing it. Many countries are opening their jails and also sending their mental patients here. You name the lowest form humanity and they’re poring over the border.
Sam,
Good point. In the early 80s(?) Castro emptied his prisons and mental health facilities and send them to us on the Mariel boat lift.
I lived in Miami at the time and BOOM Cubans everywhere.
Yep. That’s right.
Maybe this is what Trump meant about draining the swamp. The swamp attacked him first, then went after us citizens. Likewise the Trump meme they’re not after me, they are after you