The Real State of The Union

A nust read from American’s great political philospher, VDH.

“In a very brief time, we all but have destroyed the downtowns of our major cities—which will increasingly become vacant in a manner like the 6th-century A.D. Roman forum.”

The left is now openly priming us for pedophilia. These demons must be stopped! https://t.co/DcTAKHqIcP

— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) March 23, 2023

Life Among the Ruins

By Victor Davis Hanson

American society is facing three existential crises, not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires.American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires.

Premodern Barbarism

We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns.

Most know the result of such Medieval street living is unhealthy, violent, and lethal for all concerned. Yet no one knows—or even seems to worry about—how to stop it.

So public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection continue unabated. Progressive urban pedestrians pass by holding their noses, averting their gazes, and accelerating the pace of their walking. The greenest generation in history allows its sidewalks to become pre-civilizational sewers. In a very brief time, we all but have destroyed the downtowns of our major cities—which will increasingly become vacant in a manner like the 6th-century A.D. Roman forum.

All accept that defunding the police, no-cash bail, Soros-funded district attorneys, and radical changes in jurisprudence have destroyed deterrence. The only dividend is the unleashing of a criminal class to smash-and-grab, carjack, steal, burglarize, execute, and assault—with de facto immunity. Instead we are sometimes lectured that looting is not a crime, but lengthy incarceration is criminally immoral.

We have redefined felonies as misdemeanors warranting no punishment. Misdemeanors are now infractions that are not criminal. Infractions we treat as lifestyle choices. Normality, not criminality, is deemed criminal. We all know this will not work, but still wonder why it continues.

Many among the middle classes of our cities who can flee or move, do so—like 5th-century equestrians who left Rome for rural fortified farms before the onslaught of the Ostrogoths and Visigoths. For most of our lives we were lectured that the old southern states—Florida, Tennessee, Texas—were backward and uninviting. Now even liberals often flee to them, leaving behind supposedly cosmopolitan Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, and New York. The more people leave the blue states, the more those states praise themselves as utopian.

The less well-off, without the means to leave, hope that their environs have hit bottom so things can only improve. The elite who caused this premodern catastrophe assumes they will always have the money and wherewithal to ensure that themselves and their own can navigate around or even profit from the barbarism they unleashed. For them the critic, not the target of criticism, is the greater threat.

The hard urban work of the 1990s and early 2000s—cleaner, safer subways, secure nightlife downtown, clean sidewalks, low vacancy rates, little vagrancy, and litter-free streets—so often has been undone, deliberately so. We are descending to the late 1960s and 1970s wild streets—if we are lucky the mayhem does not devolve even further.

A mere 10 years ago, if an American learned that a man was arrested for clubbing, robbing, or shooting innocents, and yet would be released from custody that day of his crime, he would have thought it an obscenity. Now he fears that often the criminal will not even be arrested.

A once secure border no longer exists. Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas simply demolished it and allowed 6-7 million foreign nationals to cross illegally into the United States without audits—to the delight of their apparent constituent, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

What would shame a Biden or Mayorkas? What would change their minds? Billions of dollars spent on social services for the lawbreaking at the expense of the American poor?

Would 100,000 annual lethal overdoses—12 times more than those who died over 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan combined—from drugs that flow across the open border sway them? Or would it take 200,000, or 300,000 deaths before Joe Biden relented and ceased his chuckling?

What does a people do when its highest officials simply renounce their oaths of office and refuse to enforce laws they don’t like? Everyone knows the border will eventually have to become secure, but none have any idea whether it will take another 20, 30, or 50 million illegal entrants and 1 million more fentanyl deaths to close it.

Polls show race relations have hit historic lows. Much of the ecumenicalism of the post-Civil Rights movement seems squandered—almost deliberately so.

The Left now rarely mentions Martin Luther King, Jr. or even the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964. Perhaps it knows it has violated the spirit and legacy of both.

Today, our identity politics leaders believe that the color of our skin, not the content of our character, certainly matters more. The practitioners of the new tribalism in some sense fear outlawing segregation and discrimination by race. They know to do so would end racially restricted houses and safe spaces, racially exclusive graduations, and race-based admissions, hiring, and promotion on campus.

Read Professor Ibram X. Kendi and his message is implicit. For him, the problem with a Jim Crow-like system was not segregation or racial chauvinism per se, but merely who was doing the victimizing and who were the victims: so the original racism was bad; but racism in reverse is good.

We abhor violence, racism, and misogyny—in the abstract. Yet the entire hip-hop industry would find no audience—or so we are told by its appeasers—if rappers refrained from “ho” misogyny, brags of violence against law enforcement, and self-described proprietary use of the N-word.

Most know that young black males under 30 commit violent crimes at well over 10 times their 3-4 percent demographic of the population—so often victimizing the nonwhite. All know that reality must remain unmentionable even as its causes need to be debated and discussed if lives are to be saved. Yet the greater crime seems not the crime itself, but even mentioning crime.

Postmodern Abyss

Postmodernism in our age is deadlier even than premodernism. Sexually explicit drag shows that allow the attendance of children 20 years ago would have been outlawed—by liberals worried over the trauma of the young watching performance-art simulated sex.

Now the children come last and the performers first—as ratified by the same liberals. But to fathom the new transitioning, simply learn from ancient transitioning and gender dysphoria, an unhappy classical theme from Catullus’ Attis poem (stimulatus ibi furenti rabie, vagus/ devolsit ili acuto sibi pondera silice/ itaque ut relicta sensit sibi membra sine viro) to Giton in Petronius’ Satyricon.

Current “science” is now synonymous with ideology, religion, or superstition. Lockdowns, mRNA vaccinations, masking, transgenderism, “climate change,” and green power brook no dissent. They are declared scientifically correct in the manner that the sun used to revolve around the earth, and any dissenting Galileo or Copernicus is cancel-cultured, doxxed, and deplatformed.

It is now verboten to cite the causes of the current upswing. We must remain silent about the classical exegeses that cults, pornography, and constructed sexual identities, when not biological, were the manifestations of a bored culture’s affluence (luxus), leisure (otium), and decadence (licentia/dissolutio).

The classical analyses of an elite collapse focus on a falling birth rate, a scarce labor force, ubiquitous abortion, an undermanned military, and a shrinking population. We suffer all that and perhaps more still.

Millions of young men are detached and ensconced in solitude, their indebted 20s too often consumed with video-gaming, internet surfing, or consumption of porn. Many  suffer from prolonged adolescence. Many assume that they are immune from criticism, given that the alternative of getting married, having children, finding a full-time job, and buying a house is society’s new abnormal.

Rarely has an elite society become so Victorian and yet so raunchy. A slip with an anachronistic “Gal” or “Honey” can get one fired. Meanwhile, grabbing one’s genitals while pregnant on stage before 120 million viewers is considered a successful Super Bowl extravaganza.

Our army is short of its annual recruitment by 25 percent. We all suspect but do not say out loud the cause. The stereotyping of poor and middle-class white males as both raging and biased, and yet expected yet to fight and die in misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, has finally convinced the parents of these 18-year-olds to say, “no more.”

Need we say anything about the lack of efficacy or morality of the Department of Justice, FBI, or CIA?

Or rather is there anything the FBI will not do?

Doctor court evidence? Hire Twitter to suppress the news? Monitor parents at school board meetings? Allow directors to lie under oath or “misremember” before Congress?

Swiping clean subpoenaed phones? Hiring fakers to compile dirt on a presidential candidate—and then using that known smear to hoodwink a judge to allow spying on Americans?

Suppressing evidence on a laptop to warp an election? Raiding an ex-president’s home with a SWAT-like team? Spying on Catholics in mass? Storming a home full of children of a man accused of a politically incorrect misdemeanor?

The more the military has been stalemated in Iraq, humiliated in Afghanistan, and dreading what China will soon do or what Iran will even sooner let off, the more it insists our priorities should be diversity, equity, and inclusion. Will that escapism ensure more lethal pilots, tank commanders, and Marine company commanders?

The mindsets of too many of our new generations of command are twofold: first to be promoted by virtue signaling woke policies that they must know eventually will hamper combat readiness, and then in the future to rotate at retirement into multimillionaire status by leveraging past expertise for defense contractors. Keep that in mind and almost every publicly uttered nonsense from our highest in the Pentagon makes perfect sense.

Them

There is a third challenge. Our enemies—illiberal, deadly, and vengeful—have concluded we are more effective critics of ourselves than are they. They enjoy our divided nation, torn apart by racial incivility, dysfunctional cities, and woke madness. (Notice how even the communists long ago dropped deadly Maoist wokeism, or how the Russians viewed the Soviet commissariat as antithetical to their military and economic agendas.)

 

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Downtown Detroit was in shambles years ago, and quickly deteriorated soon after. Seattle, Portland and many other large progressive, commie, demo, run cities with all of the Riots and Looting are following the demise of Detroit.

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Elizabeth

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

So is Atlanta.

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

Joe Biden doesn’t care about America or the American people, so it’s an action of futility to contact that pseudo “president” about any impotent matter. For Biden will not respond to reason or logic.

That fiendish villain, Biden and his administration are an abomination to everything that is wise, good .fair decent just and right. As he has proven by his appointments, orders policies and politics of are nothing but folly and madness if not outright reason.

With all the awful things done by Biden, he is an extremely incompetent fool and outright idiot, or the second case is the he is a treacherous treasonous subversive scoundrel and an outright villain.

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

The tragedy might be that America has reached the end of her being a Republic. With the now corrupted FBI with its abuse of its power as observed that it took a sinister part in the insidious set up against the patriots on January 6, 2021 and the later FBI harassment of American Patriots who attended that January 6th rally and the Biden gulag for tyrant Joe’s political prisoners from the day of 1/6/22 and later the FBI raid invasion of residents of Donald Trump, along which many awful other event sines that have occurred since Biden took Office on 1/20/21 those are omens that are overwhelming that United States is come to the very end of her Republic. This is indeed, very tragic and sad.

With the infected and thoroughly infiltrated leftist FBI and considering all the terrible harm Joe Biden has done to the United States is still doing and will continue to do is so very horrendously terrible that the damage might be irreversible . I really hope I’m wrong.

President imposter Joe Biden is leading America to ruin. The terrible harm that Biden is doing to the USA might even be irreversible. As Abraham Lincoln had said, “You can’t unscramble eggs.”

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

What lying gall he has. For Joe Biden had said that “the Republicans are against .everything.”

For when Biden spoke of his Republican opponents being against “everything” he should first look into the mirror.

Biden must be against low gas prices.

Biden is against American being oil independent.

Biden is definitely against a strong firm secure US/Mexican border.

For Biden is against the American free enterprise system.

Biden must be against low food prices.

Biden is against funding and supporting the police force.

Biden must be against the American worker because of his socialist economic policies.

Biden must be against low gas and food prices.

Biden is against supporting our only one good friend in the Middle East the State of Israel.

Biden is against putting the hostile vicious anti. America “mullah regime” of Iran in its place by giving those in power in that Islamic tyranny everything they demand.

Biden is the negative one.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  Walter Sieruk

REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE AGAINST INSANITY AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

SO IS G-D.

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

“Let’s Go Brandon is right. For Pseudo President Joe Biden is, indeed, feeble-minded, idiot. Nevertheless there seems to be times when he is cognitively aware, yet those times he is, it’s only for the harm of America and her people, as seen that that US/ Mexica border crisis which he started which involves many different evils ,likewise his awful folly in Afghanistan which has resulted in many unvetted Afghan Muslim “refugees” in the United States , some of who might possibly be dangerous jihadists who could soon start scheming and carrying out mass murderous jihad attacks .

That evil ,dangerous and subversive imposter President Biden with his horrendous plots and polices which only hurt the USA and the American is a reflection of the wisdom found in the Bible in Proverbs 15:26. Which informs its reader that even “The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord.” [K.J.V.]

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

“Big Brother Biden “is a villain and traitor to America and the American people. So much so, let us not be naïve about him, that is possible he would inflect upon American and Americans a socialist /Marxist tyranny if he could.

As the type of tyrannical government as in, the classic novel 1984 by George Orwell that was later made into a movie. In which , is headed by “Big Brother,” who issued a new speak dictionary with taught “Peace is war” and “Love is hate” and “Freedom is slavery” as well as “Ignorance is strength” and that the State headed by Big Brother declared that if it says “2+2 = 5 then it is 5.”

Likewise Big Brother Biden, first declared,” Inflation is strength.” and he
declares the patriotists on January 6,2021 “insurrectionists.”

How slanderous, nevertheless Big Brother Biden had spoken.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

IT MIGHT BE TIME TO:
1. Open up all the INSANE ASYLUMS again and round up these GREEN ADVOCATES, LIBERAL BULLIES, AND PEDOPHILIA ADVOCATES.

2. BRING BACK THE HANGINGS IN THE TOWN SQUARE.

3. DIVIDE THE COUNTRY INTO A ‘RED DAWN’:
……….RED STATES, with their own GOVT AND PRESIDENT = TRUMP
……….BLUE STATES, with their own GOVT AND PRESIDENT = Tooth Fairy

IF MY STATE EVER TURNS BLUE, I WILL MOVE AND QUICKLY!!

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Walter Sieruk

1 year ago

Joe Biden, he’s terrible in handling the US economy and every other important subject.

Biden is guilty of either extreme incompetence or outright treason.

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garry pollack

1 year ago

Reply to  Walter Sieruk

walter, cud U please elaborate…

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Thomas Cordell

1 year ago

Been wondering what efforts were taken to “va%%inate” all those “street” people? Or were they considered “gone” already?

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Patriotliz

1 year ago

So how do you sum it all up? How the WEST was lost.
Paganism–>Christianity–>Enlightenment–>Secularism–>anti-Christian–>Paganism.

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Miffed52

1 year ago

To see the results of democratic/Leftist led cities…just talk a walk through once vibrant neighborhoods, look at the number of businesses that have left or have had to shut down, etc. and you’ll get a sense of what Leftist control does. Look at our school systems being led by the Left. Children have fallen way behind in the very basics of education such as reading, writing or math. Look at the erosion of ‘parental’ rights in these same schools. Look at the deterioration of the traditional family, society and over all moral values we used to have. Look at it hard and you will get an idea of what the Left is doing.

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magvitum

1 year ago

The democrats have used biden to destroy our society because no-one among them want to be loaded with the guilt of destroying the once unique, exceptional country that we were. So they picked this gaga character to do their work, especially vile pelosi’s work, while she racks in more millions from Congress’ special advance information on deals and licks her ice creams from one of her loaded refrigerators……

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