{"id":13076,"date":"2021-04-01T17:17:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13076"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T00:17:09","slug":"radical-new-rules-for-post-america-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/radical-new-rules-for-post-america-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical New Rules for Post-America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1) Money is a construct.<\/strong>&nbsp;It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits. But at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2) Laws are not necessarily binding anymore.<\/strong>&nbsp;Joe Biden took an oath to \u201ctake care that the laws be faithfully executed.\u201d But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/03\/31\/radical-new-rules-for-post-america\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.&nbsp;&nbsp; 1) Money is a construct.&nbsp;It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.&nbsp; Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits. But at least there were some concessions that the money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3oU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6638,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/obama-heed-thyself\/","url_meta":{"origin":13076,"position":0},"title":"Obama, Heed Thyself","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"He used to know some important things. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online\u00a0 Republicans and Democrats are still name-calling in their arguments over the government shutdown, out-of-control federal spending, and the implementation of Obamacare. 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