Friday, October 06, 2023

Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities By Victor Davis Hanson

Our Establishment’s Alternate Realities By Victor Davis Hanson 
"One common denominator that explains why previously successful societies implode is their descent into fantasies. 
A collective denial prevents even discussion of existential threats and their solutions.
Something like that is happening in the United States. 
  • Eight million illegal immigrants have entered the United States by the deliberate erasure of the southern border...Yet, the more the millions arrive, the more Joe Biden and his Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas flat out lie that “the border is secure.”...
  • Biden apparently has reversed course and begun using the former pejorative “Bidenomics” as a term of pride. He now praises this three-year effort to borrow $6-7 trillion, and spike interest rates threefold to 7% on home mortgages—even as prices on essentials like food and fuel have spiked 25-30% since he entered office...
  • Stranger still is the denial of the current crime wave in our major cities. Predators and thugs have turned once iconic downtowns into either war zones or ghost towns or both. Smash-and-grab swarming of stores and matter-of-fact shoplifting are destroying commerce in our major cities. Unsustainable stores either leave or shut down. Communities who vote for politicians who defund the police blame the stores for leaving—but not the criminals whose brazen thefts made it impossible to do business in the inner city...
Despite our epidemic of fantasy, there remains reality.
And we will soon rediscover it all too soon.

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