Who Will Stop the Current Madness?

In the perceptive and trenchant article below Victor Davis Hanson offers a flawless prescription for what ails America.

He quotes Leo Amery who was a British Conservative M.P. who served as First Lord of the Admiralty and Colonial Secretary during the 1920s, but it is for aiming at Neville’s Chamberlain’s government, sitting on the Treasury Bench, Oliver Cromwell’s famous lines delivered to the Long Parliament on April 20th. 1653 for which he will always be remembered: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

On May 7th. 1940 the debate in the House of Commons in which Amery spoke those words started quietly enough but it turned out to be one of the most significant debates in British history. As it progressed Chamberlain knew his government was in peril. Although he won the debate by a decent margin a hundred of his own M.P.s either voted against him or abstained. On the evening of May 10th. Winston Churchill became prime minister. Earlier that day Hitler’s powerful mechanized army had invaded Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland and was on its way to France.

Only the Royal Navy had the might to challenge Nazi Germany. The British Expeditionary Force and the Royal Air Force were outnumbered. France would be defeated by the end of June at which point a triumphant Hitler and his Nazis bestraddled a subjugated Europe. Britain stood alone but something had happened in that damp grey island, something that no one had anticipated. The British parliament at the eleventh hour in a revolt of conscience snatched power away from the men of Munich and summoned to the colors the one man who, for almost a decade despite being mocked and ridiculed, had foretold and warned against everything that had come to pass. Within two months Winston Churchill rallied his countrymen and became the world’s symbol of resistance to Nazi tyranny. He would lead his country to victory with his indispensable allies after six long and devastating years of world war.

Casting his eye across the bludgeoned American political landscape and witnessing the lawlessness and devastating wreckage committed against us, our constitution and our American way of life by the determined and treacherous leftocracy of the Democrat Party of which Joe Biden is an ornament, Professor Hanson asks who will speak for America the way Churchill and Leo Amery spoke for Britain in its hour of lethal danger. Who, indeed?

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Who Will Say No More to the Current Madness?

By: Victor Davis Hanson | Aug 11, 2023

Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed.

A lonely Winston Churchill had only a few courageous partners to oppose the appeasement and incompetence of his conservative colleague Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

One of the most stalwart truth-tellers was a now little remembered politico and public servant — Leo Amery, a polymath and conservative member of Parliament.

Yet in two iconic moments of outrage against the Chamberlain government’s temporizing, Amery galvanized Britain and helped end the government’s disastrous policies.

In the hours after Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, there was real doubt whether Chamberlain would honor its treaty and declare war on Germany.

A Labour Party member, surrogate Arthur Greenwood, got up in the House of Commons to announce that he would be speaking for Labour on behalf of his ill party leader Clement Attlee.

Immediately Amery interrupted, shouting out, “Speak for England, Arthur!”

He was met with overwhelming applause and soon public acclamation.

After all, Amery was a political voice in the wilderness warning that neither his own party nor the opposition Labour party was speaking or acting for the real interest of the British people.

Amery, a shocked Greenwood, and others had finally had enough of the partisan nonsense, and demanded the nation unite against Nazi Germany.

Hours later, Britain declared war on Germany, the first major power to do so.

On a second iconic occasion on May 7, 1940, Amery voiced even stronger views — again, widely held by the public, but rarely voiced by the timid political class.

The inept Chamberlain government had just lost a winnable Norway campaign to Germany.

Amery responded with a blistering attack on the incompetence of the conservative Chamberlain administration by quoting Oliver Cromwell’s hallmark 1653 order to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

Three days later after Amery’s speech and the invasion of France, an ill Chamberlain and most of his advisors resigned. Churchill became prime minister. The rest is history.

We need a voice like Amery’s. Like Britain from 1939 to 1940, America is in existential danger.

The Biden administration has utterly destroyed the southern border — and immigration law with it.

Biden green lighted 7 million illegal aliens swarming into the U.S. without legal sanction or rudimentary audit.

China spies inside and over the U.S. with impunity. Beijing has never admitted to its responsibility for the gain-of-function COVID virus that killed a million Americans.

President Joe Biden printed $4 trillion at exactly the wrong time of soaring post-COVID consumer demand and supply shortages. No wonder he birthed the worst inflation in 40 years.

In response, interest rates tripled, gas prices doubled.

Our military is thousands of recruits short. It lacks sufficient munitions.

Following Biden’s humiliating pullout from Afghanistan, vast troves of arms were abandoned in Kabul. Billions more in scarce weapons were sent to Ukraine.

The Pentagon’s woke agenda trumps meritocracy in promotions and advancement.

Our enemies — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea — are on the move, while the U.S. seems listless.

The Biden renegade Department of Justice, CIA and FBI have become weaponized. Ideology, politics, and race — not the law — more often guide their investigations, intelligence operations and enforcement.

The downtowns of our once majestic major cities are becoming unlivable.

They are mired in refuse and trash, violent crime and homelessness. Stores and businesses leave. Millions each year flee the blue urban coasts to the red west and south.

To even say there are still two biological genders, that global warming may not be entirely manmade or necessarily destroying the planet, or that class, not race, is the proper barometer of inequality is to face ostracism and career cancellation.

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Zeus

8 months ago

The biggest royal deception of all time was when Britain claimed to oppose slavery and abolish it. This wasn’t many years after they tried to murder us under the king’s boots. The only slavery they really opposed was slavery to anyone but their own king. A kingdom IS slavery, but opposing slavery that looks worse creates the image of a free Britain. They sure as hell aren’t free now, are they? If they were they wouldn’t be flooded with enemies and they would have been able to vote their way out of the EU. The British Crown is the head of the f**** snake over there. In a kingdom you are subject to the will of the king….period. You are a subject, which is another name for slave that doesn’t sound as bad.

Everything since 1913 (and you could argue 1871) was a stage designed to drag the USA into slavery, and use us to conquer for our royal “allies” by calling it defense of freedom and free people. It’s not possible to ride out conquering as a conqueror. Many kings and conquerors by many titles and names have tried. The unconquered unite despite their differences to avoid being conquered. The only way to conquer the world is by deception, and that includes the use of central banks. The ultimate deception would be to use the icon of freedom as the economic and military muscle behind royal global conquest.

Everyone is supposed to be surprised to learn the identity of the beast. Look across the pond and be surprised. They use camouflage (deception). You can look right at them and not recognize what they are. They elevate themselves above the threats around them. They infiltrate, or dig in, and they undermine. Look at the Democrat Party, RINOs, and the entire “deep state”.

What would have happened to Britain without US involvement?

OUR enemy sets their enemies against each other. Our enemy turned us into the image of a conqueror so the unconquered would unite to kill us. Russia and China and Iran are not natural allies. They have united to avoid being conquered, and they see the USA as the conqueror. We The People have been thinking we’re out to spread freedom and liberty. We got conned. Who would benefit from nuclear mutual destruction involving Russia, China, Iran, NK, and the USA? Our old pals across the pond. All their most powerful opposition would be toast.

The British (rulers) are con artists. They’re cross dressing totalitarians. They pretend to be unable to defend themselves, as does Europe in general. Europe in general has always been run by royalty, and conquerors, openly or otherwise. Why wouldn’t Europe be able to defend themselves? They could, but they created a coalition and a scheme to use us to defend them as they set us up to fight one war after another to their benefit at our expense.

I’m not saying Russia and China aren’t conquerors by nature. Islam exists to conquer the world.

We better take care of ourselves for a change. WE THE PEOPLE can stop the current madness. We can start that process by standing up to enforce our votes. We better do that before we are unable to stand up at all. We forgot the power of numbers that gave birth to this Republic. OUR enemy wants the gold and the land, and they don’t want subjects who are able to rise up against them again. If we would just take care of each other here, instead of fighting each other for a matchmaker, we would be so powerful and prosperous that no enemy would dare provoke us. They would be busy trying to conquer each other, and our example would be the inspiration that would conquer them all from their own soil. That is actually the reason our so called allies hate our very existence.

Until we grow a spine and stand up together, we’re worms on a hook.

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Horatio Tremoine

8 months ago

Reply to  Zeus

its difficult to know where to start in response to Zeus who appears to wholly misunderstand history and current events but lets have a go
the UK (not Britain) did oppose slavery, spent vast amounts of GDP on halting the trade and lost dozens of Naval personnel ion the process so attempting to belittle that shows ones real colours
We didnt try to ‘murder’ you, rather we endeavoured to put down an illegal armed civil insurrection being conducted by tax avoiding renegades who were also out to commit genocide against the loyalist majority population
Royalty / Kings and Kingdoms are not slavery – royalty have ‘skin the game’ insofar as they are part of the fabric of the Nation and have a lifelong and long term vested interest in the survival of the State, unlike a temporary elected Official who has only one interest in plundering the state coffers before the next rogue gets their snout in the trough – republicanism is the worst form of self destructive politics imaginable and the best form of government money can buy
We did vote to leave the EU and are no longer in that nest of snakes despite Obama insulting is and threatening us with trade reprisals if we left – up yours Obama and your scurvy shower of sycophants inhabiting the mansion down the road from the White House who actually run the Biden administration
We are not subject to the will of the King – he is a constitutional head of state and does not have a political or politicised role unlike the scurrilous knaves who infect the White House

your paragraphs 2, 3 is beyond parody and incoherent, lets have the English version when you’ve a spare moment or two

The UK without US involvement would be a free and independent nation – with Frenemies like the US one does not need to worry overly about purported ‘enemies’ of the US Empire, Russia would be sane, China would be a welcome trading partner and the non-stop Merikan wars of 1946 – 2023 would not have happened … the US however would not have had access to the largest aircraft carrier permanently moored off the European mainland from which to subjugate, terrorise, infiltrate, destabilise and screw up the free world – remember it was US banks that bankrolled the Kaiser, Hitler and Stalin

your paragraph 5 is delirious ideological rant looking for a home – no-one could, or would, profit from a nuclear exchange

“cross dressing totalitarians” – I suggest you are intoxicated by your own delusional rhetoric – the US set up NATO and subjugated the European population after having bankrolled the rise to power of the National Socialists (think about it = national SOCIALISTS) and then spent the next 75 years plundering and pillaging Europe for a measly expenditure of 7% of US GDP on ‘defense’ AKA ‘occupation’ – and remember that the UK and France would have none of this deceitful masquerade so we paid you back every cent which took us until 2011 – every cent – whilst you were busy making your bed with the Germans under the Marshall Plan so you could own that manufacturing powerhouse for your own profit and then chucked them overboard when your own profligacy and financial incompetence ($3Trillion debt today) prompted Obama to face East as China started to kick back against your hegemony

the US can never be ‘powerful’ on its own – it is wholly dependent on the subjugation of others to maintain the charade of superiority and the pathetic claims of Manifest Destiny and Exceptionalism – I’ve lived and seen the pox addled US and its rancid politik, there is nothing ‘special’ about the US except its innate capacity to handcuff and shackle everyone else, starting with the slave trade which the Brits – single handedly – stopped, stopped 100% – and once the slave trade was taken from you then came the colonial war-of-choice to subjugate the secessionist South raping, murdering and burning everything on the March To The Sea from which many lessons were learned and put to good use in Korea, Vietnam, Sudan, Iraq, Grenada, Libya, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Bosnia

may God free us from the US

soon

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Zeus

8 months ago

Reply to  Horatio Tremoine

LMAO
Anyone with a forked tongue like yours should understand what deception is.

Apparently you’re too stupid to understand so you try to make up for it with your tongue. Maybe that’s why you’re so useful to your superiors. You must do more than kiss arses.

If you’re butthurt, blame your boyfriend.

If you love your king I suggest you change your name to Ben Dover.

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Zeus

8 months ago

Reply to  Horatio Tremoine

The most educated people brought us to this sick f***** place, so what does that say about you? Whatever nightmare you think God needs to save you from was your own creation, Brighteyes.

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JoeyJ

8 months ago

The answer is “NO ONE”.

The Left’s criteria for success are:

1) Destroy Donald Trump before the 2024 Election NO MATTER THE COST.
2) Reduce the population of the world to 500 million people.
3) Return to the Stone Age level of technology to “Save the Planet”.

We’re just so screwed.

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Snowedin

8 months ago

Reply to  JoeyJ

As klaus schwab who was mentored by kissinger, said, Eat Bugs, Be Poor and Be Happy.

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Don Davenport

8 months ago

Only an appeal to heaven can stop the madness.

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turtlebrat

8 months ago

History repeats itself ad nauseum.

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Nabi

8 months ago

True. But one of the reasons Churchill was ‘in the wilderness’ was because he was somewhat responsible for Turkey entering the war on the side of the Germans which consequently resulted in the incredible slaughter they suffered at Gallipoli. Read Barbara Tuchman for a good account.

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Dwayne Oxford

8 months ago

Toleration of lucifer’s evil has got us here. Withiot a return to God, we’re sunk. He will not intervene for a people who do not eschew evil.

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Bob V

8 months ago

Hanson always has been a voice of reason, but most Americans are clueless and are happy to remain so.

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