{"id":13624,"date":"2021-06-28T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13624"},"modified":"2021-06-28T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T01:00:48","slug":"the-cruel-progressive-creed-undoing-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-cruel-progressive-creed-undoing-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cruel Progressive Creed Undoing Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ <em>American Greatness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both. The law is optional,&nbsp; and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found guilty by the laws of the present and so it is being undone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The military budget is on a trajectory to be the smallest in terms of GDP allotment since World War II; its careerist officers, for their own short-term interests, are now demonizing and will soon be driving away the very demographic that has suffered percentage-wise the greatest casualties in recent wars and was once unquestionably the foundation of the military.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2021\/06\/27\/the-cruel-progressive-creed-undoing-civilization\/\">CONTINUE READING&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Debt is suffocating us. Our currency is on its way to being Lebanonized.&nbsp; Most major American cities are broke, dirty, unsafe, and run by either corrupt incumbents, neo-Marxists, or both. The law is optional,&nbsp; and applied asymmetrically on the basis of race and ideology. The past is found guilty [&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-3xK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6353,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/egyptian-military-warns-obama-supporting-terrorism-in-egypt-is-red-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":13624,"position":0},"title":"Egyptian Military Warns Obama: &#8216;Supporting Terrorism&#8217; in Egypt is &#8216;Red Line&#8217;","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/ RaymondIbrahim.com According to a report titled \u201cSisi to Pentagon: We will not turn back, sovereignty is a red line,\u201d published in\u00a0Watan\u00a0newspaper (Saturday, August 17 edition), Egyptian Maj. 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