Commentary authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once-prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it.
Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Every day things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile.
Consider contemporary Venezuela. By 2010, the once well-off oil-exporting country was mired in a self-created mess. Food became scarce, crime ubiquitous.
Radical socialism, nationalization, corruption, jailing opponents, and the destruction of constitutional norms were the culprits.
Between 2009 and 2016, a once relatively stable Greece nearly became a Third World country. So did Great Britain in its socialist days of the 1970s.
Joe Biden’s young presidency may already be leading the United States into a similar meltdown.
Hard Left “woke” ideology has all but obliterated the idea of a border. Millions of impoverished foreigners are entering the United States illegally—and during a pandemic without either COVID-19 tests or vaccinations.
The health bureaucracies have lost credibility as official communiques on masks, herd and acquired immunity, vaccinations, and comorbidities apparently change and adjust to perceived political realities.
After decades of improving race relations, America is regressing into a pre-modern tribal society.
Crime soars. Inflation roars. Meritocracy is libeled and so we are governed more by ideology and tribe.
The soaring prices of the stuff of life—fuel, food, housing, health care, transportation—are strangling the middle class.
Millions stay home, content to be paid by the state not to work. Supply shortages and empty shelves are the new norm.
Nineteenth-century-style train robberies are back. So is 1970s urban violence, replete with looting, carjackings, and random murdering of the innocent.
After the Afghanistan debacle, we have returned to the dark days following defeat in Vietnam, when U.S. deterrence abroad was likewise shattered, and global terrorism and instability were the norms abroad.
Who could have believed a year ago that America would now beg Saudi Arabia and Russia to pump more oil—as we pulled our own oil leases, and canceled pipelines and oil fields?
Our path to systems collapse is not due to an earthquake, climate change, a nuclear war, or even the COVID-19 pandemic.
Instead, most of our maladies are self-inflicted. They are the direct result of woke ideologies that are both cruel and antithetical to traditional American pragmatism.
Hard-Left district attorneys in our major cities refuse to charge thousands of arrested criminals—relying instead on bankrupt social justice theories.
Law enforcement has been arbitrarily defunded and libeled. Police deterrence is lost, so looters, vandals, thieves, and murderers more freely prey on the public.
“Modern monetary theory” deludes ideologues that printing trillions of dollars can enrich the public, even as the ensuing inflation is making people poorer.
“Critical race theory” absurdly dictates that current “good” racism can correct the effects of past bad racism. A once tolerant, multiracial nation is resembling the factionalism of the former Yugoslavia.
The culprit again is a callous woke ideology that posits little value for individuals, prioritizing only the so-called collective agenda.
Woke’s trademark is “equity,” or a forced equality of result. Practically, we are becoming a comic-book version of victims and victimizers, with woke opportunists playacting as our superheroes.
Strangest in 2021 was the systematic attack on our ancient institutions, as we scapegoated our ancestors for our own incompetencies.
The woke have waged a veritable war against the 233-year-old Electoral College and the right of states to set their own balloting laws in national elections, the 180-year-old filibuster, the 150-year-old nine-person Supreme Court, and the 60-year-old, 50-state union.
The U.S. military, Department of Justice, FBI, CIA, Center for Disease Control, and National Institutes of Health until recently were revered. Their top echelons were staffed by career professionals mostly immune to the politics of the day.
Not now. These bureaus and agencies are losing public confidence and support. Citizens fear rather than respect Washington grandees who have weaponized politics ahead of public service.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, Attorney General Merrick Garland, former FBI heads like James Comey and Andrew McCabe, retired CIA director John Brennan, and Anthony Fauci head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—have all politicized and vastly exceeded their professional purviews.
They sounded off in public fora as if they were elected legislators up for reelection. Some lied under oath. Others demonized critics. Most sought to become media darlings.
This governmental freefall is overseen by a tragically bewildered, petulant, and incompetent president. In his confusion, an increasingly unpopular President Joe Biden seems to believe his divisive chaos is working, belittling his political opponents as racist Confederate rebels.
As we head into the 2022 midterm elections, who will stop our descent into collective poverty, division, and self-inflicted madness?
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No. We are already in one.
I agree. Even if we could turn this around by voting (which I doubt) it would take decades to get out of this self inflicted hell.
You have an enemy contingent dug into this entire civilization.
There can be no fixing this problem without addressing the enemy.
Voting has as much effect as changing toilet paper to fix a broken and flooded septic tank. And in case that analogy wasn’t clear enough, voting has zero effect on solving this civilization-wide problem.
The Republican Party stands ready to save our civilization from the forces of deceit and self-interest.
It’s all over but the shooting.
The debt ….
Not heading…..we are already there.
What’s worse are the corporations that are doubling down on woke and diversity. Just look at the TV commercials: white women married to niggers, queer niggers kissing, lesbos kissing. It’s a sewer, a race to the bottom.
AFAIK this is unprecedented for corporations to advertise so heavily to show they are woke. They are whores.
Citizens spitting in God’s face and expecting positive results. Judgment day has arrived and it will not be pretty. This world is sick with sin and shows no sign of repentance, which God would accept. Goodbye America.
Well, no one knows the time, the end times that is. I’m a sinner no doubt. Few will admit it. “oh well”.
I believe it was Pascal who wrote that there two kinds of people:
the righteous, who believe they are sinners,
and the sinners, who believe they are righteous.
Sounds to me like you’ve been made a saint… 😊
hardly, I’m a wretch.
Then there’s hope for you! It’s those that think they are “worthy” that are the real problem. Contact info two clicks away…
Filed under: S**t you can’t make up….
Gavin Newsom on L.A. Rail Theft: ‘We Look Like a Third-world Country’
“I’m asking myself, what the hell is going on? We look like a third-world country,” Newsom said, before apologizing for using the word “gangs” to describe the attacks on the trains, stressing that he did not mean the word in a “pejorative” way.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/01/21/gavin-newsom-on-l-a-rail-theft-we-look-like-a-third-world-country/
Nothing worse than a thieving fucking lowlife…..but its to be expected in crime ridden shithole cities/
or a governor in this case
It is a wonder he didn’t apologize for using the word “train” that it might offend a line of patrons at the local Comet ping pong Pizza.
Thank your Aunt Nancy, you F tard. You might want to mention it at your next family get together.
He gets really touchy when they blame him for the problem he helped to create.
Hard Assets-Hard Principles-Hard People
Stack them broad and deep, you are going to need them!
Liberalism destroys people and nations; the people that wrote the Old Testament knew that 3,000 years ago. Useful Idiots tear down the Traditions and wisdoms of thousands of years of experience like foolish children and replace them with the incorrigibly failed ideology of Socialism; the early most fervent Christians tried Socialism in Acts 2: 44-45 and it couldn’t even work for them. The Keystone of Stupidity in America is Affirmative Discrimination (as a Southerner, let me remind you that it’s identical to the north’s Reconstruction destruction of the South after the Civil War and if we had not thrown the Carpet Baggers and Scallywags out about 10 years later and ended Reconstruction, the South probably would never have recovered). Affirmative Discrimination turned America from a Meritocracy to a Kakistocracy after 1965. Isaiah lamented Israel falling into a similar morass (2:12, 9:16) and said all the tables are covered with vomit; the way back is line by line, precept by precept (28: 8-10); under wise leaders. All US House Representatives come up in Nov2022; we need leaders who will restore individual and government moral, responsibility, financial, work, academic, law & order, and religious standards. That’s sounds like a big order but it usually comes as a single package with good men and women. Vote only the best and kick out the rest. God willing we finish the job in Nov2024.
Don’t bet on the elections – an incumbent has a 95% of getting reelected. That’s one of the reasons we are here.
Excuse the “French” again, no shit. I’m at a loss the assholes that continue to “win” Texas elections, the incumbents. Uh,”rigged elections”. Not in Texas dude . Ours are legitimate. Gag, vomit, choke…
Plenty of scallywags standing in the shadows of election portals to replace the current scallywags. Net result from election? Nothing.
The Carpetbaggers film and book was dang good back in the 60’s . Not the same you are speaking. As a southerner myself I recall my mommie, born 1932 in Bloomberg , Tx. outside Atlanta, Tx. telling me about her daddy and the MEN of Atlanta tar and feathering black boys. One story , a white lady married to an influential MAN of the town complaining because some black boy had “looked” at her was tar and feathered and placed on the railroad tracks headed north and told never come back. I’m thinking WTF, these are people that sit in the pews of First Baptist Church in Atlanta , Tx. God help us.
Wait. So what’s the problem with these Baptists now? Texas is an alright place if you can’t live in Oklahoma or Arkansas or Montana or maybe a few other places.
? The Baptists ?
In Arkansas its OK to marry cousins. Montana, cold winters, nice in the spring and summer. Best time IMO is Sept. just after all the college kids go back to the online classes. Oklahoma, hey medicinal weed there!
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
From “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats
There are too many deceased voters and clever tricks for we Republican/independents to overcome; Unless we put a stop to them.
No one will. This is a concerted takedown of America.
What would happen if 5% of us went Galt for just 1 week? Just askin.
Please do it before the 13% empty all the stores and warehouses, rob all the trucks and trains, rob and burn down the White neighborhoods, kill the police and rape the women.
There are about 19% in Cass County , Texas, a county of about 35,000 but they seem to be under control. The robberies are more conducted by whites for whatever reason. True.
Meritocracy is libeled and so we are governed more by ideology and tribe.
Meritocracy is libeled and so we are governed more by the ideology of the Tribe.
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“Who could have believed a year ago that America would now beg Saudi Arabia and Russia to pump more oil—as we pulled our own oil leases, and canceled pipelines and oil fields?”
Maybe that’s why Trump admin gave the Saudi’s more weapons so the US could not do a damned thing about it?
Is that Peppermint Patty’s dog in the pic? No , sorry, that’s Rome, not Goliad.
Nationalization is a bad thing ? What’s the alternative ?
I still trust the plan.
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That’s cruel.