Our Parasitic Generation - By Victor Davis Hanson

Our Parasitic Generation By Victor Davis Hanson

• 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...