It takes a nation to protect the nation
Victor Davis Hanson: collected lectures
The essays and videos of Victor Davis Hanson are of such high quality that I'm going to collect some here. The will probably not get taken down, but they will become submerged in the masses of extra material over time, so this forum will act as a safe collection point.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Lake on
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The Odyssey of Western Civilisation - an 8-part lecture series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLER2GpHL7yGYN22cVGcpGeau1jCY...
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The Western Story - a brilliant exposition of how Western thinking, ideology and government evolved.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLER2GpHL7yGZhYvFGZ8VabdYxiKQ...
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Permalink Reply by Philip Smeeton on
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Victor Davis Hanson and the destruction of California.
Practical people with a sense of purpose created this wealth and well-being. But the unproductive idealists cannot understand that everything has to be paid for. Someone has to work hard to create it and these persons must also be responsible and care. Everyone must understand this purpose and sign up to the common objective of building and maintaining the nation state.Just opening the borders of the country that your forebears built for you and cared about, will only work if those that enter the nation are nice, caring, hard-working and responsible people. If you import parasites and incompetents, or people that have nothing in common with you, the nation will decline.
California is what happens when you dream up concepts like multiculturalism and vibrant diversity, (transgenderism) what you get is ethnic and cultural conflict and the loss of common purpose. The socialist thugs just cannot understand that conservatives and capitalists also care about the environment and destruction of the planet.
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The original principle was 'equality of opportunity', which is true egalitiarianism.
The new progressive principle is 'equality of outcome', which is a racist, supremacist ideology of oppression. It's all about grabbing as much as you can of the spoils of society for your own tribe. BLM is a racial supremacist organisation.
Philip Smeeton said:Victor Davis Hanson and the destruction of California.
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Two brothers born into the same family, both equally endowed, One a success in life, the other a complete wreck. This I have experienced in two families that I have known intimately..I have no explanation as to why. The one contributes, the other a burden.
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In Reagan's time the Left had not yet gone completely insane.
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