The following 8-minute excerpt is from a John Anderson interview with Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson was apparently speaking about the mid-term elections and cultural trends in America.
The following statements highlight Hanson’s comments:
Hanson is explaining to Anderson the mindset of the typical American who does not agree with the America that other nations see on news broadcasts, movies, sporting events…. To experience real Americans, a foreigner would have to visit or immigrate. He’d discover that 70% of Americans are proud of America; they are not racists, but are intermarrying at higher rate than ever….
These Americans welcome immigrants who want to come and assimilate into the culture… who don’t form tribal groups that attack the values, traditions, statutes…of America.
This majority of Americans, however, have been given two options by the democrat left: join us or commit social suicide.
That is, the democrat left stands opposed to western free-market capitalism; private property; constitutional government; religious tolerance… they believer that the origins of that system are flawed and it, therefore, needs replaced….
They decry this system while they themselves are enjoying the benefits of it. …they are like court jesters who make fun of the court, yet they themselves are products of it.
He talked about living in the most liberal state in the union wherein anyone who wants to purchase a 9mm, for example, must wait 9 months because so many liberals have purchased guns recently that they aren’t generally available. Those who formerly opposed the second amendment are now understanding its value and exercising their rights to protect themselves in the wake of the leftist de-funding movement.
He also spoke about the dissatisfaction of this large group of Americans who are not pleased with how Biden came to power… and have retreated into ‘the monastery of the mind,’ not participating, viewing the NBA, going to movies, watching big-media news…, didn’t even know there was a world series, etc.
These have armed themselves, resolved to speak their minds and have decided not to participate in this socialist dominated culture.
The above institutions are worried about their fates since the majority of Americans are not participating in them anymore….
He had some remarks about politics in America and noted that the democratic party will experience a dramatic loss in popularity in the next two years if they continue along the track they are on presently….
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