At American Greatness, Victor Davis Hanson identifies ten ways in which America is changing, “maybe permanently.” Below are his “rules” summarized as bullet points. Click on the link to read his full article; he elaborates on each rule, and it’s not a pretty picture.
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.
3) Racialism is now
acceptable.
4) The immigrant is mostly preferable
to the citizen.
5) Most Americans should be treated
as we would treat little children.
6) Hypocrisy is passé.
Virtue-signaling is alive.
7) Ignoring or perpetuating
homelessness is preferable to ending it.
8) McCarthyism is good.
9) Ignorance is preferable to
knowledge.
10) Wokeness is the new religion,
growing faster and larger than Christianity itself.
VDH concludes:
Americans privately fear these
rules, while publicly appearing to accept them.
They still could be transitory and
invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.
The answer determines whether a
constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something
never imagined by those who created it
VDH is an historian and scholar -- hardly a rabble-rouser. For his full take on these scary rules, click
here.
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