[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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Oleg Airapetov
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[AlAhram] Since the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan, I have received questions from a number of journalists, both American and Arab. They have asked what the US withdrawal means for the region, for American leadership in the world, and which countries will now fill the void left by the absence of the US from the scene.
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Dragon Lady here is one of the biggest lockdown / mandate cheerleaders out there. As noted elsewhere, the left is sure changing its tune on these measures now that their own are getting infected with the Omicron variant; it's a chink in their intellectual armor, if you'll pardon the expression.
#2
Final daughter, who is legitimately concerned about infection leading up to major surgery, has been thoroughly terrified by the reports she’s been reading. As a result, she just ordered N-95 masks, which she will no doubt wear unsealed and entirely too loosely to be effective — both soothing and stoking her anxiety for the few times she leaves the house between now and then.
#3
Mask good! ....until it isn't
Vaccine effective! ...unless it fails
Unvaxxed at greater risk! ...except they aren't really
Omicron will kill! ...a total of two people in the US as of 12/28/2021
We've passed from Mendacity to Total Incoherence. Capitulation coming soon
#4
No criticism to anyone here, and prayers are said at House Murcek for TW's daughter's medical procedure, but has anyone besides me noticed you hear nothing about "emotional support animals" since masks came along? I'm sure they are still out there, with their emotional support clients, but, like the flue, they just sorta stopped being news.
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Re #3. You only find out a talisman is no good when it's too late...
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#6
Have to use the metal crimp on the nose to make it fit correctly. Also can't have too small or too large a face. Must be a seal on the outside. And preferably a one-way exit vent. 3M™ Particulate Respirator 8511, N95.
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