The 10 radical new rules that are changing America- VDH
Apr 12, 2021 20:23:39 GMT
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Victor Davis Hanson's The 10 radical new rules that are changing America
1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
2. Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. 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.
3. Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality.
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. (but as a first generation American white male, I still am guilty. How's that work?)
5. Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.
6. Hypocrisy is passé. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities.
7. Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.
8. McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers.
9. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project require any evidence or historical knowledge.
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.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/02/hanson-the-10-radical-new-rules-that-are-changing-america/
1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.
2. Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. 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.
3. Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily — if at all — by an American commonality.
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. (but as a first generation American white male, I still am guilty. How's that work?)
5. Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children.
6. Hypocrisy is passé. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities.
7. Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it.
8. McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers.
9. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project require any evidence or historical knowledge.
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.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/02/hanson-the-10-radical-new-rules-that-are-changing-america/