Not America, but much of Western Civilization. I make that point because America didn’t go as far as the UK, Canada, or Germany. Could include France and Spain, but they always seemed basket cases.
Not just America…
The proles do not need need or deserve the goods and services rightfully due their hardworking betters in the intelligentsia, nomenklatura, and other benevolent Party notables.
They should only get what those betters chose to reward them with for continued faithful obedience.
Victory Gin takes about the same regardless of venue. The proles, however, made their own beer…
tastes
Remember when the WEF guy said, “You will own nothing and be happy”? Basically, he was calling for feudalism, where he and his kind will be the feudal lords who own everything and everyone else will be peasants. Peasants own nothing, and they live precarious lives at the mercy of their feudal lords. That’s what the left envisions for the future, and they’ve been working towards that goal for decades. If that sounds good to you, just lay there while you’re getting screwed and “think of England”. If not, then you’d better be prepared to do something about it.
We did. We elected Trump. Now he and his band of Merry Men (and Women) are setting alight more than a century worth of leftist mischief.
And that was a good start. Next, we need to lean on the Republicans in Congress to actually do their jobs and enact many of Trump’s EOs into law. Without that, the next Democrat president will undo everything.
This ^^
No argument. But I wouldn’t be so sure about there ever being a “next Democrat President.” The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner and their dominant reaction seems to be to continue to keep painting so they can huff the fumes.
Political parties enjoy no unconditional patent of immortality. The Democrats have had a good run but the party is now quite obviously a combination progressive laughing academy and criminal syndicate more than a real political party. And their auxiliaries in the legacy media seem far less able to gaslight the American public for extended periods than formerly. That doesn’t spell future success to me.
I don’t know what will emerge from the ruins of the Democratic Party, but it seems more and more clear that there are going to be ruins.
The USSR had strong borders with its iron curtain, but it didn’t help them. The problem for them was the internal tyranny and rot, not foreign forces. What keeps the US from suffering the same outcome especially since that’s what Hanson is really complaining about?
What keeps the US from suffering the same outcome is the failure of the anti-American left to ever successfully impose the same multi-generational tyranny that characterized the pre-collapse Soviet Union. It certainly wasn’t for lack of trying, especially during the previous two decades. But the century-long leftist effort to beat the US into submission from within has failed, big-time.
Let’s hope that last isn’t just wishful thinking. You and I (about the same age) probably won’t have to live in a client state of the CPR, but our grandchildren…? I hope not.
We one gets to an age certain (as have I) we tend to think of our children and especially our grand-children as enfeebled. Often we lose sight in the case of children as to exactly where they are in life and how well they are doing. When it comes to grandchildren and on we don’t really get the opportunity to see how they turn out as adults, unless you had your kids right out of high school. IMHO grandchildren and great-grandchildren can be pretty kick-ass. Look at the ‘guilded generation’ who sired children in the 1890s and their generation of grandchildren of the 1940s.
If you mean the PRC, that isn’t going to be an issue. The PRC’s provinces have been systematically overreporting their populations for decades in order to get more appropriations from Beijing. Of the PRC’s alleged 1.4 billion citizens at least 200 million are phantoms – probably more. And the phantoms are all in the 40-and-under cohort. That means the median age in the PRC – which is admitted to be about 40 even based on the fictional 1.4 billion number for total population – is probably more like 50. That means essentially half of the current PRC population will be dead by mid-century and current fertility rates in much of the country are 1/3 or less of the replacement rate. The PRC is in a demographic death spiral and the regime, itself, will die well before the Han ethnicity breathes its last – which it pretty much will by the end of the century.
In the meantime, the PRC will be dealing with the implosion of its export-led, debt-propped economy and the political fallout from that. It ain’t gonna be pretty. It will also deprive the PRC of any real possibility of taking back Taiwan unless it moves to do so very soon.
So we are in a dicey time where the PRC is concerned. Eyes peeled and powder dry.
Some people might be wondering what he is talking about since they don’t live in a blue state. Well, blue states are stuck in 2020.
I keep hearing people say that not all Democrats are progressives, that progressives are just a tiny minority of the party. While I don’t think this is true, let’s pretend that it is. This tiny minority has total control of the party and the policies they implement. The totally normal and moderate Democrats just sit there in their cuck chair while society gets f’d.
What woden said…
There is certainly a lot of political inertia among lifelong Dems. But not an infinite amount. It varies by individual. Trump has been chipping away at core Dem constituencies for nearly a decade now and the process continues and even gathers steam. I think Trump’s recent executive order mandating most-favored-nation pricing for prescription medications, for example, is going to be felt significantly in the 2026 mid-term elections.
Certainly I think the Trump strategy is to wrap as many trade deals as possible, to send the stock market to record highs and folks 401k’s as well, by the mid-terms…
If that is, indeed, the strategy, it seems to be working out.
But the prescription drug thing bids fair to be huge. Until now, Trump has been least popular among seniors relative to other age cohorts. But seniors also take more prescription drugs than any other age cohort of the population and they are also disproportionately likely to vote in elections. The Dems could wind up being mostly street pizza after the mid-terms.
At this point, I would be happy if they just voted for different Democrats than Republicans. Problem with this so far, recently elected Democrats aren’t rolling back the crazy.
No, they’re doubling down. Young twits like AOC and Crockett one can understand, but one has to wonder just what an old war horse like Van Hollen was thinking chasing around El Salvador trying to bring back a deported scumbag. Outside of the Hamptons and Mid-town Manhattan, there aren’t a whole lot of places in the US of A anymore where that is regarded as a good look.
Not America, but much of Western Civilization. I make that point because America didn’t go as far as the UK, Canada, or Germany. Could include France and Spain, but they always seemed basket cases.
Not just America…
The proles do not need need or deserve the goods and services rightfully due their hardworking betters in the intelligentsia, nomenklatura, and other benevolent Party notables.
They should only get what those betters chose to reward them with for continued faithful obedience.
Victory Gin takes about the same regardless of venue. The proles, however, made their own beer…
tastes
Remember when the WEF guy said, “You will own nothing and be happy”? Basically, he was calling for feudalism, where he and his kind will be the feudal lords who own everything and everyone else will be peasants. Peasants own nothing, and they live precarious lives at the mercy of their feudal lords. That’s what the left envisions for the future, and they’ve been working towards that goal for decades. If that sounds good to you, just lay there while you’re getting screwed and “think of England”. If not, then you’d better be prepared to do something about it.
We did. We elected Trump. Now he and his band of Merry Men (and Women) are setting alight more than a century worth of leftist mischief.
And that was a good start. Next, we need to lean on the Republicans in Congress to actually do their jobs and enact many of Trump’s EOs into law. Without that, the next Democrat president will undo everything.
This ^^
No argument. But I wouldn’t be so sure about there ever being a “next Democrat President.” The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner and their dominant reaction seems to be to continue to keep painting so they can huff the fumes.
Political parties enjoy no unconditional patent of immortality. The Democrats have had a good run but the party is now quite obviously a combination progressive laughing academy and criminal syndicate more than a real political party. And their auxiliaries in the legacy media seem far less able to gaslight the American public for extended periods than formerly. That doesn’t spell future success to me.
I don’t know what will emerge from the ruins of the Democratic Party, but it seems more and more clear that there are going to be ruins.
The USSR had strong borders with its iron curtain, but it didn’t help them. The problem for them was the internal tyranny and rot, not foreign forces. What keeps the US from suffering the same outcome especially since that’s what Hanson is really complaining about?
What keeps the US from suffering the same outcome is the failure of the anti-American left to ever successfully impose the same multi-generational tyranny that characterized the pre-collapse Soviet Union. It certainly wasn’t for lack of trying, especially during the previous two decades. But the century-long leftist effort to beat the US into submission from within has failed, big-time.
Let’s hope that last isn’t just wishful thinking. You and I (about the same age) probably won’t have to live in a client state of the CPR, but our grandchildren…? I hope not.
We one gets to an age certain (as have I) we tend to think of our children and especially our grand-children as enfeebled. Often we lose sight in the case of children as to exactly where they are in life and how well they are doing. When it comes to grandchildren and on we don’t really get the opportunity to see how they turn out as adults, unless you had your kids right out of high school. IMHO grandchildren and great-grandchildren can be pretty kick-ass. Look at the ‘guilded generation’ who sired children in the 1890s and their generation of grandchildren of the 1940s.
If you mean the PRC, that isn’t going to be an issue. The PRC’s provinces have been systematically overreporting their populations for decades in order to get more appropriations from Beijing. Of the PRC’s alleged 1.4 billion citizens at least 200 million are phantoms – probably more. And the phantoms are all in the 40-and-under cohort. That means the median age in the PRC – which is admitted to be about 40 even based on the fictional 1.4 billion number for total population – is probably more like 50. That means essentially half of the current PRC population will be dead by mid-century and current fertility rates in much of the country are 1/3 or less of the replacement rate. The PRC is in a demographic death spiral and the regime, itself, will die well before the Han ethnicity breathes its last – which it pretty much will by the end of the century.
In the meantime, the PRC will be dealing with the implosion of its export-led, debt-propped economy and the political fallout from that. It ain’t gonna be pretty. It will also deprive the PRC of any real possibility of taking back Taiwan unless it moves to do so very soon.
So we are in a dicey time where the PRC is concerned. Eyes peeled and powder dry.
Some people might be wondering what he is talking about since they don’t live in a blue state. Well, blue states are stuck in 2020.
I keep hearing people say that not all Democrats are progressives, that progressives are just a tiny minority of the party. While I don’t think this is true, let’s pretend that it is. This tiny minority has total control of the party and the policies they implement. The totally normal and moderate Democrats just sit there in their cuck chair while society gets f’d.
What woden said…
There is certainly a lot of political inertia among lifelong Dems. But not an infinite amount. It varies by individual. Trump has been chipping away at core Dem constituencies for nearly a decade now and the process continues and even gathers steam. I think Trump’s recent executive order mandating most-favored-nation pricing for prescription medications, for example, is going to be felt significantly in the 2026 mid-term elections.
Certainly I think the Trump strategy is to wrap as many trade deals as possible, to send the stock market to record highs and folks 401k’s as well, by the mid-terms…
If that is, indeed, the strategy, it seems to be working out.
But the prescription drug thing bids fair to be huge. Until now, Trump has been least popular among seniors relative to other age cohorts. But seniors also take more prescription drugs than any other age cohort of the population and they are also disproportionately likely to vote in elections. The Dems could wind up being mostly street pizza after the mid-terms.
At this point, I would be happy if they just voted for different Democrats than Republicans. Problem with this so far, recently elected Democrats aren’t rolling back the crazy.
No, they’re doubling down. Young twits like AOC and Crockett one can understand, but one has to wonder just what an old war horse like Van Hollen was thinking chasing around El Salvador trying to bring back a deported scumbag. Outside of the Hamptons and Mid-town Manhattan, there aren’t a whole lot of places in the US of A anymore where that is regarded as a good look.