When revolutionaries undermine the system
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IMAGINE THE UNIMAGINABLE
When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the
people, face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most
dangerous—as we’ll see over the next few months.
 
By Victor Davis Hanson, May 11, 2022
[A Vote For Joe Biden]
Image by The Patriot Post, Thomas Gallatin, April 26, 2022
AMERICANS ARE NOW ENTERING UNCHARTED, REVOLUTIONARY TERRITORY. THEY
MAY WITNESS THINGS OVER THE NEXT FIVE MONTHS THAT ONCE WOULD HAVE
SEEMED UNIMAGINABLE.
 
Until the Ukrainian conflict, we had never witnessed a major land war
inside Europe directly involving a nuclear power.
 
In desperation, Russia’s impaired and unhinged leader Vladimir Putin
now talks trash about the likelihood of nuclear war. 
 
A 79-year-old Joe Biden bellows back that his war-losing nuclear
adversary is a murderer, a war criminal, and a butcher who should be
removed from power. 
 
After a year of politicizing the U.S. military and its self-induced
catastrophe in Afghanistan, America has lost deterrence abroad. China,
Iran, North Korea, and Russia are conniving how best to exploit this
rare window of global military opportunity.
 
The traditional bedrocks of the American system—a stable economy,
energy independence, vast surpluses of food, hallowed universities, a
professional judiciary, law enforcement, and a credible criminal
justice system—are dissolving.
 
Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels
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Inflation is at a 40-year high. New cars and homes are unaffordable.
The necessary remedy of high interest and tight money will be almost
as bad as the disease of hyperinflation.
 
There is no southern border
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Expect over 1 million foreign nationals to swarm this summer into the
United States without audit, COVID testing, or vaccination
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None will have any worry of consequences for breaking U.S. immigration
law.
 
Police are underfunded and increasingly defunded. District attorneys
deliberately release violent criminals without charges. (Literally
10,000 people witnessed a deranged man with a knife attack comedian
Dave Chappelle on stage at the Hollywood Bowl last week, and the Los
Angeles County D.A. refused to press felony charges.) Murder and
assault are spiraling. Carjacking and smash-and-grab thefts are now
normal big-city events.  
 
Crime is now mostly a political matter. Ideology, race, and politics
determine whether the law is even applied.
 
Supermarket shelves are thinning, and meats are now beyond the budgets
of millions of Americans. An American president—in a
first—casually warns of food shortages. Baby formula has disappeared
from many shelves.
 
Politics resembles the violent last days of the Roman Republic. An
illegal leak of a possible impending Supreme Court reversal of Roe v.
Wade that would allow state voters to set their own abortion laws has
created a national hysteria. 
 
Never has a White House tacitly approved mobs of protesters showing up
at Supreme Court justices’ homes to rant and bully them into
altering their votes. 
 
There is no free speech anymore on campuses.
 
Merit is disappearing. Admissions, hiring, promotion, retention,
grading, and advancement are predicated increasingly on mouthing the
right orthodoxies or belonging to the proper racial, gender, or ethnic
category. 
 
When the new campus commissariat finally finishes absorbing the last
redoubts in science, math, engineering, medical, and professional
schools, America will slide into permanent mediocrity and irreversible
declining standards of living.
 
WHAT HAPPENED? 
 
REMEMBER ALL THESE CATASTROPHES ARE SELF-INDUCED. THEY ARE CHOICES,
NOT FATE. The United States has the largest combined gas, coal, and
oil deposits in the world
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It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and to ensure
the cleanest energy development on the planet.
 
Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. He kept printing trillions of
dollars for short-term political advantage, incentivizing labor
nonparticipation, and keeping interest rates at historical lows—at a
time of pent-up global demand.
 
The administration wanted no border
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Only that way can politicized, impoverished immigrants repay left-wing
undermining of the entire legal immigration system with their fealty
at the ballot box
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Once esoteric, crack-pot academic theories—“modern monetary
theory,” critical legal theory, critical race theory
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dominate policymaking in the Biden Administration. 
 
The common denominator in all of this is ideology overruling
empiricism, common sense, and pragmatism.  Ruling elites would rather
be politically correct failures and unpopular than politically
incorrect, successful, and popular. 
 
Is not that the tired story of left-wing revolutionaries from
18th-century France to early 20th-century Russia to the contemporary
disasters in Cuba and Venezuela?
 
The American people reject the calamitous policies of 2021-2022. Yet
the radical cadres surrounding a cognitively inert Joe Biden still
push them through by executive orders, bureaucratic directives, and
deliberate cabinet nonperformance. 
 
WHY? THE LEFT HAS NO CONFIDENCE EITHER IN CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT OR
COMMON SENSE. 
 
So as the public pushes back, expect at the ground level more doxxing,
cancel culture, deplatforming, ministries of disinformation, swarming
the private homes of officials they target for bullying, and likely
violent demonstrations in our streets this summer. 
 
Meanwhile, left-wing elites will do their best to ignore Supreme Court
decisions, illegally cancel student debts, and likely by the fall
issue more COVID lockdowns
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They will still dream of packing the Court, ending the filibuster,
scrapping the Electoral College
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adding more states, and flooding the November balloting with hundreds
of millions more dollars of dark money from Silicon Valley
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When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the
people, and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove
most dangerous—as we shall see over the next few months.
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