Victor Davis Hanson does not like what he is seeing:
“Our Parasitic Generation”
Are we sure that there is all that
much ruin left in the United States?
We are $31 trillion in collective
debt. The new normal is $1.5 trillion budget deficits. The military is
politicized and short of recruits. We trade lethal terrorists for woke
celebrity athletes as if to confirm our enemies’ cynical stereotypes.
Our FBI is corrupt and discredited,
collaborating with Silicon Valley contractors to suppress free speech and warp
elections. We practice segregation and racial discrimination and claim we do
not because the right and good people support it and, anyway, the victims
deserve it. The country has seen defeat before but never abject, deliberate
humiliation as in Kabul, when we fled and abandoned to the terrorist Taliban a
$1 billion embassy, a huge, remodeled air base, thousands of friends, and tens
of billions of dollars in military hardware—and hard-earned deterrence.
We are witnessing the breakdown of
basic norms essential for civilized life, from affordable food and fuel to
available key antibiotics and baby formula. Old Cairo seems safer than an
after-hours subway ride or stroll at dusk in many major American cities.
Medieval London’s roadways were likely cleaner than Market Street in San
Francisco. Speech was freer in 1920s America than it is now.
Lots more at American Greatness here. It’s important. And it’s grim.
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