If you belong to the tens of millions in the US, and elsewhere in the world, who watch the Biden administration attempting to overturn foundational principles of American politics and society, with the burning ardor of New Bolsheviks, you’d find this analysis by Professor Hanson not only pragmatist and perceptive but, also, a dire warning about America cracking at the seams and falling behind other aspiring global powers, most notably “capitalist-communist” China.
Today’s Democratic party has morphed into a creature harboring the truly privileged (i.e. characters like Zuckerberg, Gates, Bloomberg, et.al.) and the white affluent majorities of the East and West coasts. On the other side of the hill, the American heartland, roughly inclusive of the Confederate States which fought Lincoln in the Civil War, have gradually coalesced into a new, hardening core combatively opposed to the neo-dilettante Democratic party (ironically once the party of virulent racism and supporter of slavery) carrying on with their “wokism,” “trans & LBGTQ rights,” anti-Christianity, “equity & inclusion” totalitarianism, open borders, dictatorial imposition of “woke” public school curricula, and every other twisted expression of “inalienable rights” of small minorities demanding to become controllers of the country’s fundamental steering
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Beginning with the two Clinton administrations, and culminating in the Obama eight years in power, America literally lost her steerage and bearings. The Trump interlude, for all the torrential abuse and not-so-masked insurrectionism by the “enlightened” Left (addressing the masses of the working middle-to-lower middle class as the ‘deplorables’) momentarily tried to put the breaks on the runaway US train with only modest success given the massive total “progressive” war directed against it.
The money “woke” elites of both coasts counterattacked by handsomely financing a massive Democrat election assault that won a narrow victory for the Biden crew—which immediately got to work to promote the dismantle job, at all levels of government and federal administration, by rather coarse and in-your-face promotion of “woke” policies and persons, the latter winning the day by the mere fact of belonging to the “oppressed.”
Trump, the coarse “millionaire from Queens,” still remains an
American
politician in contrast to the Dem “globalists,”
who barely conceal their disdain for working people, and remain in cahoots with the top two percent of the country’s multi-millionaires-billionaires, who exist in a bubble isolated (and protected) from the rest of us proletariats by state-of-the-art security and regiments of “personal protection” specialists.
Eventually, Trump lost in his attempt at re-election and continues to claim the November 2021 ballot was actively manipulated against him resulting in a “stolen election,” a claim vehemently rejected by the “woke” juggernaut (see my earlier post of this subject).
“Bidenism” is a veritable existential threat to America’s stability, and longer-term survival, as a main-focus great global power, the superpower days having succumbed to a combination of dead-end forever wars, and a country existing on selling treasury bills representing her stratospheric sovereign debt, a monster that continues to balloon by the printing presses pouring inflationary paper dollars into the nation’s economy that continue to buy less and less in the average family’s daily struggle for survival (‘flexibilities’ delivered by new online technologies aren’t the answer to the US economic trap; countries are still mostly depended on material production of a myriad essentials, an activity in which ‘old’ America was once the world champion (Zuckerberg’s Meta eerie virtual reality gimmick won’t fill your gas tank, buy you groceries, fix the broken A/C, or pay for your children’s college education—but it’ll definitely add handsomely to Zuck’s personal entrepreneurial bottom line).
Those who still care to remember America of the two decades after the end of WWII are undoubtedly dumbfounded by how speedily the country surrendered her primacy due to a combination of unattainable targets of global supremacy, and by a suicidal opening of all levels of her economy to predatory foreign interests in cahoots with American Big Capital seeking unending profits by essentially robbing American workers of their once secure well-paid jobs. The “Chinization” of American consumption, and an extremely dangerous policy of allowing Chinese money to continue buying key US assets with little, if any, real scrutiny, is already a question of national security that is deliberately and ostentatiously ignored by the Clintonian-Obamian-Bidenista camp.
Professor Hanson dissects this increasingly dangerous American conundrum in his usual solid intellectual style—and what he has to say is true food for thought to all those who still truly care about the security and longevity of this US of A.