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Topic: Victor Davis Hanson: Welcome To America's French Revolution
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Dhyana Knowflake Posts: 1892 From: US Registered: Sep 2019
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posted April 07, 2023 12:31 AM
A well-written, thoughtful, and incisive read. quote: We are in a Jacobin Revolution of the sort that in 1793-94 nearly destroyed France. And things are getting scary. The Democratic Party vanished sometime in 2020. It was absorbed by hard-left ideologues. They were bent on radically altering, or hijacking, existing institutions to force radical, equality-of-result agendas that otherwise do not earn majority support.
snip quote: To implement such an unpopular program, the new Left must radically alter our institutions. So the “Democrats” periodically threaten to pack the courts, end the filibuster, destroy the Electoral College, and override the states’ prerogatives to establish balloting laws. They deny the committee assignments of the House minority leader. They engage in stunts like tearing up the State of the Union address on national television. With impunity they mob the homes of Supreme Court justices to leverage their decisions. This revolution is run by elites and is a top-down operation. University deans all but prompt students to disrupt invited campus speakers. District attorneys release violent arrested criminals without bail. Woke generals call their Chinese counterparts to warn them against their own commander-in-chief. The Pentagon lectures the country on its supposed innate racism—even as the United States continues to lose wars abroad, abandons billions of dollars of equipment to terrorists, and allows communist China to surveille domestic American military bases with complete impunity. Words change their meanings. “Racist” now means “don’t dare object.” “White” became the pejorative stereotype used by racists. “Diversity” means tired orthodoxy. “Equity” is a synonym for bias. “Inclusion” ensures exclusion. Institutions are no longer recognizable. The FBI as we knew it no longer exists. Three former FBI directors either lied under oath to federal investigators, or pleaded amnesia in congressional testimonies. Our highest former national intelligence officers lied under oath to the Senate. The IRS is weaponized against political opponents of the Democrats. The Department of Justice is more likely to send the FBI after grammar school parents than mobs threatening the homes of Supreme Court justices. Still, to thoroughly erase America, our Jacobins must radically alter our customs and traditions. So under the cover of the COVID quarantines, Election Day was made irrelevant. In the new America, 70 percent did not vote on the designated day but, fueled by third-party vote harvesting and relaxation of audits of non-Election-Day ballots, extended the vote over a period of several weeks. Like the Jacobins, names and dates had to be radically transformed. 1619, not 1776, is now America’s birthdate and, we are told, it was an ignominious one. Statues are toppled, careers Trotskyized. Biological males suddenly have hijacked women’s sports—destroying five decades of women’s hard-won efforts to achieve equal treatment and respect in athletics. What triggered the collective madness and this Jacobin takeover? The Left’s perfect storm of the 120 days of riot, death, arson and looting of 2020? The COVID pandemic? The disastrous two-year lockdown? The 2016 election of the outsider Donald Trump? All those catalysts and more. As the country collapses under leftist nihilism, the revolution’s last gasp is to destroy Donald Trump—by empowering him. That is, the leftist legal vendetta is designed to win him just enough empathy to be nominated the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, but then to keep on indicting, gagging, and hemorrhaging him legally until Election Day 2024. Trump was the first president to be impeached twice, to be tried by the Senate as a private citizen, and to have his private home raided by the FBI. Now he is the first president to have been indicted, effectively ending America’s moral authority abroad.
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Dhyana Knowflake Posts: 1892 From: US Registered: Sep 2019
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posted April 07, 2023 12:34 AM
quote: America now has three potential futures and two are bad. First, the Jacobins have two more years to finish what they started as the founders’ dream descends into our worst nightmare. Second, the revolution has so warped our legal system, our voting on Election Day, and the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, and the IRS, that even a despised, unpopular Left will “win” elections. The third is that New York prosecutor Alan Bragg has jumped the shark. His pathetic prosecution is so patently incoherent, illiberal, and in spirit anti-American, that two-thirds of the country will soon conclude the center is not holding. The Jacobins’ reign of terror is unsustainable. And so in 2024 the Left will not [only] be defeated, but so defeated so that it is utterly discredited. The choice is ours.
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 170335 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 01:06 AM
Never underestimate the number of stupid people in this country, such as those who think the indictment is good law and that those 34 “felony” charges are actual crimes.IP: Logged |
Dhyana Knowflake Posts: 1892 From: US Registered: Sep 2019
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posted April 07, 2023 01:20 AM
quote: Originally posted by Randall: Never underestimate the number of stupid people in this country, such as those who think the indictment is good law and that those 34 “felony” charges are actual crimes.
But, smart people who know what they're talking about are saying the U.S. economy is going to get much worse. The UK psychic I mentioned is saying there's going to be worldwide food shortages and advises having reserves. So, these are factors that may override in importance this deficiency in the electorate. IP: Logged |
Belage Knowflake Posts: 6647 From: USA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 01:58 PM
It does look similar indeed. Pluto was in Aquarius during that time.The French revolutionaries beheaded their King, Louis 16 and his family, and witch hunted any dissident/opponent of the revolution. After there were no more dissident left to hunt, the blood thirst needed new victims, and they started political cannibalism, killing each other in a frenzy of denunciations, summary trials, and execution. The Terror as it soon came to be called came to a halt when finally people had enough and the pendulum swing, Napoleon came to power, instituting another monarchy. IP: Logged |
Dhyana Knowflake Posts: 1892 From: US Registered: Sep 2019
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posted April 07, 2023 06:27 PM
quote: Originally posted by Belage: It does look similar indeed. Pluto was in Aquarius during that time.The French revolutionaries beheaded their King, Louis 16 and his family, and witch hunted any dissident/opponent of the revolution. After there were no more dissident left to hunt, the blood thirst needed new victims, and they started political cannibalism, killing each other in a frenzy of denunciations, summary trials, and execution. The Terror as it soon came to be called came to a halt when finally people had enough and the pendulum swing, Napoleon came to power, instituting another monarchy.
Thank you for your comments. The similarity of correlations with the Pluto in Aqua transit is interesting. In the chart for the "democratic" party, transiting Uranus square natal Uranus was applying within one degree in 2021, and exact in 2022 and the first quarter of this year. Given the three possible futures Hanson envisions, any thoughts on which one will play out? IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 24004 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 07:05 PM
So, they’re still going on about executing democrats. Which isn’t sane. If people were doing that with rump, you’d be losing your minds. IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 24004 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 07:06 PM
And, no, the Democratic Party didn’t vanish. If it had, you guys wouldn’t be struggling to come up with explanations as to why your people LOST. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 170335 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 07:56 PM
quote: Originally posted by teasel: So, they’re still going on about executing democrats. Which isn’t sane. If people were doing that with rump, you’d be losing your minds.
WTF are you talking about? IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 170335 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 07:57 PM
quote: Originally posted by teasel: And, no, the Democratic Party didn’t vanish. If it had, you guys wouldn’t be struggling to come up with explanations as to why your people LOST.
Get a clue. We are saying that your party was hijacked by the extreme left. As it once existed is long gone. IP: Logged |
jwhop Knowflake Posts: 18641 From: Madeira Beach, FL USA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 09:36 PM
quote: Originally posted by Randall: Get a clue. We are saying that your party was hijacked by the extreme left. As it once existed is long gone.
The Democratic Party 'in name only'. There's nothing democratic about today's Democrat Party. Nothing 'liberal' about the fascist democrat party either. IP: Logged |
teasel Knowflake Posts: 24004 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 10:37 PM
quote: Originally posted by Randall: Never underestimate the number of stupid people in this country, such as those who think the indictment is good law and that those 34 “felony” charges are actual crimes.
You mean, such as those who believed in trump in the first place, and still refuse to admit that they were wrong. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 170335 From: I hold a Juris Doctorate (J.D.) and a Legum Magister (LL.M.)! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 10:57 PM
quote: Originally posted by teasel: You mean, such as those who believed in trump in the first place, and still refuse to admit that they were wrong.
The fact that you think this indictment was some genius level occurrence just shows how easily you are swayed and how little you think for yourself. It’s not healthy to continually get your hopes up that this next fake thing will finally destroy the man you hate so much—only to inevitably be let down…yet again. IP: Logged |
jwhop Knowflake Posts: 18641 From: Madeira Beach, FL USA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 07, 2023 11:23 PM
quote: Originally posted by Randall: The fact that you think this indictment was some genius level occurrence just shows how easily you are swayed and how little you think for yourself. It’s not healthy to continually get your hopes up that this next fake thing will finally destroy the man you hate so much—only to inevitably be let down…yet again.
No matter how many times leftists are disappointed by the 'Get Trump' crowd crowing, hope springs eternal in leftist hearts. Same result....NOTHING. IP: Logged |
Belage Knowflake Posts: 6647 From: USA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted April 08, 2023 12:28 PM
quote: Originally posted by Dhyana: Thank you for your comments. The similarity of correlations with the Pluto in Aqua transit is interesting. In the chart for the "democratic" party, transiting Uranus square natal Uranus was applying within one degree in 2021, and exact in 2022 and the first quarter of this year.Given the three possible futures Hanson envisions, any thoughts on which one will play out?
I didn't know that about the chart of the democratic party. Thanks for bringing this up. I think there are more than 3 possible futures... But I try not to make astrological predictions about the future though...Especially when we have unpredictable Uranus in the mix. It's an exercise in futility. ![](http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/laugh.gif) IP: Logged |
Dhyana Knowflake Posts: 1892 From: US Registered: Sep 2019
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posted April 08, 2023 01:17 PM
quote: Originally posted by Belage: I didn't know that about the chart of the democratic party. Thanks for bringing this up. I think there are more than 3 possible futures... But I try not to make astrological predictions about the future though...Especially when we have unpredictable Uranus in the mix. It's an exercise in futility. ![](http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/laugh.gif)
Ah, you are wise. You were right though about President Trump in 2020, although you may not agree. IP: Logged |