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The Left Has Pushed the Envelope

The Left is waging a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America. And the Maoist results are often as absurd as they are terrifying.

Special-counsel John Durham just issued his final report on wrongdoing within the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Justice. 

The summary confirms that our premier investigatory and intelligence agencies interfered in the 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. 

Directors and high-ranking FBI officials lied under oath. They misled Congress. They altered court documents and deceived federal judges. 

The FBI hired a foreign national to gather dirt on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—while he was being paid by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign.

The FBI contracted Twitter to suppress news stories. It kept the Hunter Biden laptop under wraps, even as former intelligence officials flat out lied it was likely “Russian disinformation.” That was a blatant effort to aid the 2020 Biden campaign.

The IRS just conceded whistleblowers were correct and the agency fired its entire multiyear audit team responsible for investigating Hunter Biden’s purported tax irregularities. 

The agency claimed it was ordered to do so by the Department of Justice, headed by Biden’s appointee Merrick Garland.

California is facing a crushing $32 billion deficit. Yet it flirts with an $800 billion-dollar “reparations” payout to the state’s black residents. 

No one has any idea where the money for that would come from. No one can define who would qualify. No one can explain why a state that never allowed slavery eight generations ago now owes selected Californians billions of dollars it does not have. 

One of the reparations board leaders asserts blacks might be willing to accept an “installment” plan of payments.

The NAACP just issued a “travel alert” advising blacks not to visit Florida. The announcement was timed to draw negative attention to conservative Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ announcement of a presidential bid. 

Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Indianapolis—all outside Florida—have the highest black murder rates in the nation. 

Florida in contrast, with a black population of 3.3 million, has the second largest number of black businesses in the nation. The chairman of the NAACP’s board of directors is himself a Florida resident! 

Black Lives Matter has just announced it lost millions of dollars in investments and ran up huge deficits. 

The culprit was its former corrupt leadership. 

Its extravagant spending, plush homes, and family hangers-on have nearly bankrupted the advocacy group. It cannot account for the millions of dollars in corporate guilt and protection money it leveraged following the George Floyd riots in 2020. 

In New York, a threatening subway career criminal with 42 prior arrests was subdued by a bystander and died during the confrontation. The criminal is now deified. The would-be Samaritan is charged with felony manslaughter. 

The deceased’s uncle is vocal about his late nephew’s confrontation. But he himself was just arrested with stolen property and armed with a knife. He was mysteriously still roaming the streets despite 70 prior arrests and current active arrest warrants.

In almost every American city and town, biological males, with enormous advantages in size and musculoskeletal mass, routinely win women’s sporting competitions. 

They are systematically destroying decades of progress that sought to ensure parity between men and women’s sports. 

Corporate America has joined this cultural revolution hysteria. Companies are apparently now hellbent on destroying their brands, profits, and net worth.

Under pressure from the LGBTQ activists, the Los Angeles Dodgers reinvited the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to celebrate Pride night at Dodger Stadium. 

Catholics and Christians had objected to the invitation because the group’s notoriety hinges on its sexualized and often pornographic mockery of Catholic ritual, the Holy Trinity, and Christian faith. 

The supposedly courageous group would never dare extend its street-theater blasphemy to other religious groups such as Muslims or Hindus. 

The Dodgers apparently do not care that Greater Los Angeles may be home to 6 million Mexican American citizens and resident Hispanic immigrants. Most are Catholic and many were avid Dodger fans. 

Anheuser-Busch has nearly destroyed its best-selling Bud Light brand by hiring transgender performance-art activist Dylan Mulvaney to hawk the brand—and his own transitioning—to America’s working classes. 

The Disney corporation, for decades, has enjoyed multibillion-dollar concessions and a veritable 40-square mile private fiefdom gifted from the taxpayers of Florida.

No matter. Disney has rebranded its films, amusement parks, and television offerings to reflect radical transgendered, gay, and race advocacies. 

The results so far are billion-dollar losses in Disney stock, subscribers, and viewers. 

A woke CNN has all but destroyed its once-global audience. It now has fewer viewers than certain popular podcasts.

All these implosions are not just shocking but surreal. Why are our government, corporations, and popular culture colluding in mass suicide—to the delight of our enemies like Communist China?

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About Victor Davis Hanson

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004, and is the 2023 Giles O'Malley Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy, Pepperdine University. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and the Bradley Prize in 2008. Hanson is also a farmer (growing almonds on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author of the just released New York Times best seller, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation, published by Basic Books on May 7, 2024, as well as the recent  The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump, and The Dying Citizen.

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  1. Avatar for task task says:

    Whenever positions of power exist people who want power, not to advance, secure and protect America and Americans, or to advance a company’s products or services so as to obtain, competitively, more of the market share based on success and reputation, but, instead, to advance an agenda with fanatical religious zeal, will seek to control those levers of power.

    In 1979 the Department of Education was created. I not only wondered why but, considering that Ronald Reagan had just inherited a virtual bureaucratic infant from President Carter, was also mystified and annoyed that he did not see what I saw coming and at least attempt to destroy it. At the time a mere 800 individuals were employed. Ultimately it dawned on me that it was not Ronald Reagan but Bill Bennett who was responsible. He wanted to be the Education Czar. It should not be difficult to grasp how much damage education has wrought on America in terms of misinformation and disinformation along with steady and continual indoctrination regarding American history and culture. There is nothing in the US Constitution that speaks about education, reeducation or indoctrination. If anything that would be something that state governments would be privy to regulate and control free from federal subsidies associated with mandates.

    Whenever a federal department or agency is created the masterminds and authoritarians will seek to populate it, control it and then grow it. George Soros understands this and I believe that Donald Trump now understands that the good guys wearing the white hats think differently than the control freaks with an agenda in mind. Power rests within these institutions and in fact they can often make law, adjudicate perceived violations and punish. Why would not the few, desiring to control the many, not want more government offering them more opportunity to control?

    The main antagonist to freedom is Marxism and its many varieties. They are not often easily recognized. They always sell as useful, necessary and benevolent. The old green dealt with real issues. It attracted environmentalists such as myself. Today the environmental movements have been infiltrated with Marxist demagogues with radical anti-culture and anti-human agendas in mind.

    Corporations and businesses share a symbiotic relationship, not only when it comes to money but also when it comes to control. Sarah Palin coined the term “crony capitalism” to describe this relationship. Actually it is fascism that allows government and business to benefit through mutual cooperation. It is not new. Fascism without nationalism is still fascism. It is old but many of the techniques use to suppress liberty are new and benefited from technology. Now social media suppresses speech and science. People are forced to comply, stay silent or else risk sacrificing their livelihoods, reputations, health, property and future opportunities.

    The American Constitution was designed to safeguard the republic from its federal government by design. It was suppose to small and on a short leash. It has grown and represents just the opposite. The many levers of power should never have been given to the government. Since they have, now more than ever, the words of John Adams comes to mind. He observed that “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” And with that in mind consider that not only are Americans being assaulted by its large empowered federal government, whose levers of power are controlled by black hats, but also via its rapidly changing culture which empowers minority opinions and strange cultures to prosper and prevail at the expense of a majority who think differently. The American electorate once foolishly permitted much of what now exists and, unfortunately, despite realizing that they must immediately incur changes many fixed and rigged state voting systems prevents them from doing anything that will make a difference.

  2. I enjoyed the photo of the pig-lemmings careening off the cliff. Mere lemmings would have failed to convey the full symbolism. Each of the incidents of self destruction conveyed by Hanson all seem (to me) to be biproducts of varying aspects of grift. Select people are making big money out of all of this.

    The challenge issued by John F. Kennedy in his inaugural speech— “Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country"— was deemed (then) as a lofty goal is now seen as a lesson in naiveté.

  3. When the Soviet Union collapsed, it was not a victory over Communism. Communism was still alive and well in the United States. The Communists have been focused and working hard for the last sixty years. The final piece for them was to get control of one of the two major political parties so they could win elections. That has now been done. Now that conservatives are waking up, the question is, “What can they do to stop them?”

  4. Task, inasmuch as you may still be in a forced time out due to the shoulder surgery, you might find this long read to be of interest. I was only peripherally aware of the Missouri v. Biden case and only stumbled onto this by accident. However, the case, and its progress, is vitally important to our future.

    I highly recommend those in our comment-verse give it a close look.
    @Alecto
    @Maximus-Cassius

  5. Avatar for task task says:

    It is not an 18 minute read. I keep going over it and seem to find something pertinent and new each time. Something has to blow! The make believe President can’t run a county. He can only destroy one. The farce has got to end quickly and decisively and it should do so in the dark before BLM and Antifa and the usual suspects have a chance to get up to speed and respond. Judges cannot be threatened. They are now at the forefront and if they fail to respond Constitutionally they will eventually be permanently prevented from doing anything at all.

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