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| VDH - Elites Are Destroying America with Globalism, Leftism, and Tribalism |
| 2021-12-29 |
| [Breitbart] Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow sat down with historian and professor Victor Davis Hanson at the latter’s home in Selma, CA, for a wide-ranging interview examining how America is being undermined by a modern globalist aristocracy. Hanson drew from analyses in his latest book, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America. Hanson warned of lessening governmental accountability to citizens via the dissolution of American citizenship. The concept of citizenship, he added, is an essential component of Western civilization. "The citizen is very rare," he said. "Civilization is very old — seven thousand years old — but for nearly the first 4,500 years, there were no citizens. They were slaves, or subjects, or tribes, or residents." He continued, "[Citizenship is] the idea that you would have people who live in a confined space and they would govern themselves. They would elect their officials They would audit them. They would set their budgets, their expenditures. They would decide when to go to war, when to have peace. That was a lot of responsibility." He explained, "The idea of citizenship is integrated with property rights, he remarked. "Most importantly, [citizenship] seems to have started in the 8th century B.C. on the principal of inheritance, that you planted olive trees or vines on binds on your small plot, and you ... own them — the state didn’t own them — and you had the right to pass them on without interference from the state. Like the American Constitution, the protection of property was very important." He observed how architects of the globalist enterprise cultivate ethnic and racial agitation to create perceptions of grievance and victimhood among targeted demographic groups. He noted that upward mobility rooted in meritocracy threatens the leftist paradigm of a zero-sum struggle between haves and have-nots. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Politics is what happens when a group assembles & works out who has to take the orders, who gets to give the orders, and who has to pay for the entire shebang. If the group fails to form a consensus they break up into smaller groups &/or go war with each other. The notion of citizenship was a political arrangement worked out long ago. |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-12-29 15:40 |
| #5 Ref #3: .... via their representatives. Untill the political party leaders hijack the representatives to represent them instead. Excellent point BB. I have observed however, most go willingly. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-12-29 07:23 |
| #4 Middleman's a great thing when you need less than a warehouse amount of some hard good. The rest of the time, not so much. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-12-29 04:47 |
| #3 He continued, "[Citizenship is] the idea that you would have people who live in a confined space and they would govern themselves. They would elect their officials They would audit them. They would set their budgets, their expenditures. They would decide when to go to war, when to have peace. .. via their representatives. Untill the political party leaders hijack the representatives to represent them instead. |
| Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-29 04:45 |
| #2 Citizenship is fundamental to our civilization, yes. Right to life liberty and property; rule of law; responsibility to ourselves, our children, our elders, our neighbors to preserve the greatness of our civilization, with pride in things greater than us and a humble disdain for our own weak efforts as individuals. Ironically, the source of our modern understanding of citizenship is the civitas, the city, and it's those large and deep blue US cities that are nurturing all the forces of hatred of both our civilization and modern conceptions of citizenship. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-29 03:40 |
| #1 It would appear he's reading the Burg. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-12-29 01:21 |