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I have a dear cousin who lived in Florida and now California . He claims to be a libertarian, he is very bright and reads my memos. He is constantly rebutting just about everything he reads that I send him but also has a great sense of humor. He often sends me exhausting rebuttals that go on and on . I am more inclined to be short in my responses.
He worked in a California district attorney's office after graduating from law school. I believe he got the job because I put him touch with a dear client who was a partner in a very prestigious California law firm. I met him when he came to Atlanta and entered Emory Law School. His grandfather was a dear friend and client of my father.
I believe he has become more liberal since moving to California. How can one avoid doing so?
This was his latest comment:
Yawn. Democrats bad. Liberals are radicals. The sky is falling. May have to rename you Dicken Little
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The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the
remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities go on with their ritual
self-destruction.
By Victor Davis Hanson
In February, New York was the world’s most dynamic metropolis. By August, the city was more like the
ruins of Ephesus. It is not all that hard to blow up a culture. You can do it in a summer if you haven’t much
worry about others.
When you loot and burn a Target in an hour, it takes months to realize there are no more neighborhood
Target-stocked groceries, toilet paper, and Advil to buy this winter.
You can in a night assault the police, spit at them, hope to infect them with the coronavirus, and even
burn them alive. But when you call 911 in a few weeks after your car is vandalized, your wallet is stolen,
and spouse is violent, and no one comes, only then do you sense that you earlier were voting for a
pre-civilized wilderness.
You can burn down a Burger King in half an hour. But it will take years to find anyone at Burger King, Inc.,
who would ever be dumb enough to rebuild atop the charred ruins—to prepare for the next round of arson
in 2021 or 2023.
Today’s looter carrying off sneakers and smartphones in 10 years will be tomorrow’s urban activist,
understandably but in vain demanding stores return to a charred no man’s land, to do their fair share, and
to help restore the downtown, neighborhood, inner-city, or the “community.”
Old Liberal Ideas Are Being Destroyed
We are living in the most racially polarized climate since the 1960s.
America’s past, present, and future are in the process of being recalibrated entirely through the lens of
one’s skin color. Columbus is reduced to nothing more than another racist white Italian sailor of a half-
millennium past. Grant might as well have fought for slavery in the mind of today’s campus ignoramus.
Apparently, the Antifa thug thinks he could just as easily have written the Gettysburg Address or sculpted
a statue of Frederick Douglass.
The old liberal ideas of assimilation, integration, and intermarriage are being destroyed by the Left under
the specious doctrines of cultural appropriation, or “acting white” or “how we look is who we are.”
A new fuzzy Jim Crow returns with racially segregated campus safe spaces and theme houses or the
race-based reeducation and training sessions in the workplace—all predicated to stop racism! Somehow
selecting strangers on the basis of their race to bully in a restaurant, or targeting old anonymous men and
women to beat up in the street by their race, or singling out suburbanites by their race for racial taunts
and profanity is redefined as reparatory justice or overdue payback—on the assumption that no one
would dare say that the arson, looting, and rhetoric are descending into ever more hate-filled nihilism.
Our collective future of nationalized tribalism will become what always results when citizens identify by
superficial appearance or shared religion. Just go to Lebanon, the Balkans, or Iraq to see what is in store
first hand.
Tribalism Rising
To survive, all groups will self-identify, at first quietly, but eventually unapologetically. Some will form
alliances of self-preservation, others will war with each other. Tribal gangs, as they already do now in our
streets of fire and looting, will assume they are exempt from consequences; and so will their antitheses of
vigilantes who band together to guard their stores in the absence of a defunded police.
Liberal elite whites themselves are now uneasy, since the abstract doctrines they so nihilistically
advocated, from defunding the police to recalibrating looting as “redistribution,” are now becoming reified
and closer to home. They see that when BLM protestors jam a restaurant to demand fealty or lecture on
“white privilege” or march into a suburb to wake up the commuter to apprise him of his immorality, the
racialists will not qualify their agendas with “except for woke whites.”
When tribalism is distilled to its innate and terrifying essence, there are never exemptions for individuals:
you are reduced to what you appear superficially as to strangers. The white felon is no different than the
white Harvard president, the black shoplifter is the same as the black physicist. We are all condensed to
a sort of collective nothingness, or rather a racial “allness.”
The Self-Immolation of Pro Sports
Professional sports, once an integral part of American life, appears to be nearly in ruins. Professional
baseball, basketball, and football might have survived the virus, the lockdown, and the recession—and
then maybe they might not have. After all, millions of the bored more quickly than expected got
acculturated to the idea of soon not listening to a boring rant from LeBron James or the sad
confessionals of Drew Brees.
But what the NBA and NFL, and perhaps MLB won’t survive is cultural suicide as players fragment into
causes. The NBA existed on the premise that billionaires were willing to pay multimillionaires to lose
billions as a prestige lark—as a franchise became a sort of a huge, showy Louis Vuitton bag. But even
billionaires have limits. Snobbery and appearing cool do not always trump losing the equivalent of a
Ferrari every hour or a Gulfstream each week.
The NBA, we are told, is a woke industry.
But it’s also the strangest, most non-diverse, right-wing, money-obsessed woke institution in America.
More than three-quarters of the multimillionaire players are African-American. Over 90 percent of the
billionaire team owners are white.
Yet the entire industry — players, coaches, owners, staff — lecture Americans ad nauseam about their
supposed sins. The monotonous sermons have become transparent medieval redemptions—given the
mortal sin that the NBA sold its very soul to a racist, genocidal, and totalitarian China—to recover billions
abroad for the billions lost in viewership and attendance at home.
Non-diverse multimillionaires, working for even less diverse billionaires, finger-pointing at middle-class
Americans on the evils of privilege, in the pay of the Chinese Communist Party, is not a way to win back
fans.
Institutional Crack-Ups
Universities are in for hard times. The federal government eventually will get out of the $1.5 trillion student
loan subsidy business, and force spendthrift colleges to accept their own self-created moral hazards.Charging $30,000-$40,000 for tuition over Zoom is a bad business model in a recession. And the
alphabet soups after the names of professors and deans will not make a bit of difference.
Thousands of college-educated protesters and rioters are not especially good advertisements for the
building of lifelong character on woke university campuses. Once undergraduate institutions decided to
make students socially conscious rather than educated, and once their graduates seem to be neither,
then who really finds their mentors essential?
Our major cities, emerging from lockdown, and on the edge of nightly violence, remind us of what
Procopius, the Byzantine historian, saw of Rome in AD 538, once the cultural and political megalopolis
of the world: a mostly deserted shell of weeds, deserted streets, collapsed stone, choked fountains, and
fortified villas where lawlessness reigned and feuding tribes were what was left of a government that
once had enshrined habeas corpus.
No city gets a pass from history, not Athens, not Rome, not Alexandria—not Detroit, Baltimore, or Chicago.
After all, there is no rule that just because Bill Gates and Amazon headquartered in Seattle that its mayor,
city council, and state governor will not abandon its signature downtown. What once made Portland great
can be undone in a few weeks.
Wall Street may run the world, but it certainly does not run the New York City government. Electronic
capital really does still have human legs and when the proverbial suited investor thinks he will be infected
, short of toilet paper, or assaulted on the street, he leaves, taking his laptop with him. Bill de Blasio is left
to govern, like a horned and bearded Visigoth, over an increasing shell of former grandeur.
To venture into San Francisco is to return in a time machine to 1855, a boomtown based on silicon chips,
not gold dust, but one likewise lawless, fetid, and safe only for those with private security guards. To the
casual visitor, it appears a lunatic place now recalibrated for the homeless, the looter, the assaulter—and
the very rich. Crimes like public defecation and drug use, or shattering the windows of a parked car
window to steal its contents are not crimes unless the targets are the well-connected.
The story of all Dark Ages is that when civilizations finally prefer suicide, they do it easily, and the
remnants flock to the countryside to preserve what they can—allowing the cities to go on with their ritual
self-destruction.
So it has begun to seem this endless summer.
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Cave Man either a liar or can't remember shit:
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- Zito interviews Trump.
My interview with President Donald J Trump in Latrobe
Pennsylvania
Click here for the full story.
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