Victor Davis Hanson and host Jack Fowler cover the decline of late-night comedy, the rise of the thought police in the Anglosphere, some favorite Clint Eastwood movies, VDH’s personal Mount Rushmore of Political Awfulness, and more.
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thebaron@enter.net
“I don’t know why they’re doing this.”
Leftism, Victor, that’s why. The Statist, anti-liberty, totalitarian worldview, whose roots trace back to the Jacobins in the French Revolution, as you yourself have described.
That’s why. Enough people support the worldview, not in its entirety but in the things it promises them. A State that will take care of all of their needs, and take care of the needy. People can feel good about themselves. And they succumb to that narcotic.
That’s why. We’re fighting it here, but we have a different cultural basis than the Europeans. Our forefathers came here to get away from tyranny. So it’s harder for Statism to find root. And even with that difficulty, look how successful it has been.
If I were to use religious terms, I’d say it’s Satan, the Deceiver, making empty promises that are so easy to believe. They play to the weaker part of human nature.
That’s why.
thebaron@enter.net
No surprise that Colberttt is like a whiny adolescent. He’s a Leftist, and that what Leftism is-immaturity expressed as a political philosophy. They are all overgrown adolescents who pout, scream, rant, and throw tantrums because the world doesn’t fit their wants.
Paul Scofield
Are you guys sure The Man with No Name bit the dust? I think he is still alive and kicking, as much as anyone is at 95. FWIW.
“I don’t know why they’re doing this.”
Leftism, Victor, that’s why. The Statist, anti-liberty, totalitarian worldview, whose roots trace back to the Jacobins in the French Revolution, as you yourself have described.
That’s why. Enough people support the worldview, not in its entirety but in the things it promises them. A State that will take care of all of their needs, and take care of the needy. People can feel good about themselves. And they succumb to that narcotic.
That’s why. We’re fighting it here, but we have a different cultural basis than the Europeans. Our forefathers came here to get away from tyranny. So it’s harder for Statism to find root. And even with that difficulty, look how successful it has been.
If I were to use religious terms, I’d say it’s Satan, the Deceiver, making empty promises that are so easy to believe. They play to the weaker part of human nature.
That’s why.
No surprise that Colberttt is like a whiny adolescent. He’s a Leftist, and that what Leftism is-immaturity expressed as a political philosophy. They are all overgrown adolescents who pout, scream, rant, and throw tantrums because the world doesn’t fit their wants.
Are you guys sure The Man with No Name bit the dust? I think he is still alive and kicking, as much as anyone is at 95. FWIW.