The 10 Radical New Rules That Are Changing America

[Anonymous]

By Victor Davis Hanson



There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.



1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.



Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.



2. Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.



Crime rates do not necessarily matter. If someone is carjacked, assaulted, or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim's fault as the perpetrator's. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring, and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker. How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.



3. Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily—if at all—by an American commonality. The explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces, and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of "good" racism. Falsely being called a racist makes one more guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.



4. The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen. The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America's founding and history. Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws.



Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules. Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine. Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America. Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the "founders" than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.



5. Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children. They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote. "Noble lies" by our elites about COVID-19 rules are necessary to protect "Neanderthals" from themselves.



Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing, and normative rules of school behavior. They still are clueless about why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating, and air conditioning.



6. Hypocrisy is passé. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities. Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism, and homophobia. The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.



7. Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it. It is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, defecate, and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill, and create sufficient public shelter areas.



8. McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers. Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.



Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act, or look away from losing their livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion. The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the "woke."



9. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project requires any evidence or historical knowledge. Heroes of the past were simple constructs. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge. The brand, not what created it, is all that matters.



10. 'Wokeness' is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity. Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy and exercises far more power. Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the new gospels.



Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.



The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.

[Anonymous]

I can see why working class people like deadskinmask are walking away from this new Orwellian garbage.

[Anonymous]

By Victor Davis Hanson



There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.



1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.



Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.



2. Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.



Crime rates do not necessarily matter. If someone is carjacked, assaulted, or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim's fault as the perpetrator's. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring, and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker. How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.



3. Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily—if at all—by an American commonality. The explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces, and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of "good" racism. Falsely being called a racist makes one more guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.



4. The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen. The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America's founding and history. Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws.



Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules. Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine. Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America. Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the "founders" than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.



5. Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children. They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote. "Noble lies" by our elites about COVID-19 rules are necessary to protect "Neanderthals" from themselves.



Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing, and normative rules of school behavior. They still are clueless about why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating, and air conditioning.



6. Hypocrisy is passé. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities. Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism, and homophobia. The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.



7. Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it. It is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, defecate, and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill, and create sufficient public shelter areas.



8. McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers. Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.



Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act, or look away from losing their livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion. The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the "woke."



9. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project requires any evidence or historical knowledge. Heroes of the past were simple constructs. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge. The brand, not what created it, is all that matters.



10. 'Wokeness' is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity. Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy and exercises far more power. Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the new gospels.



Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.



The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.

This is the US veraion of the Cultural Revolution.

[Anonymous]

I can see why working class people like deadskinmask are walking away from this new Orwellian garbage.

I haven't done that..



But, I know politics will continue to make life more for my family expensive, and take away opportunities, and freedoms.

[Anonymous]

By Victor Davis Hanson



There are 10 new ideas that are changing America, maybe permanently.



1. Money is a construct. It can be created from thin air. Annual deficits and aggregate national debt no longer matter much.



Prior presidents ran up huge annual deficits, but at least there were some concessions that the money was real and had to be paid back. Not now. As we near $30 trillion in national debt and 110 percent of annual GDP, our elites either believe permanent zero interest rates make the cascading obligation irrelevant, or the larger the debt, the more likely we will be forced to address needed income redistribution.



2. Laws are not necessarily binding anymore. Joe Biden took an oath to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." But he has willfully rendered federal immigration laws null and void. Some rioters are prosecuted for violating federal laws, others not so much. Arrests, prosecutions, and trials are all fluid. Ideology governs when a law is still considered a law.



Crime rates do not necessarily matter. If someone is carjacked, assaulted, or shot, it can be understood to be as much the victim's fault as the perpetrator's. Either the victim was too lax, uncaring, and insensitive, or he provoked his attacker. How useful the crime is to the larger agendas of the left determines whether a victim is really a victim, and the victimizer really a victimizer.



3. Racialism is now acceptable. We are defined first by our ethnicity or religion, and only secondarily—if at all—by an American commonality. The explicit exclusion of whites from college dorms, safe spaces, and federal aid programs is now noncontroversial. It is unspoken payback for perceived past sins, or a type of "good" racism. Falsely being called a racist makes one more guilty than falsely calling someone else a racist.



4. The immigrant is mostly preferable to the citizen. The newcomer, unlike the host, is not stained by the sins of America's founding and history. Most citizens currently must follow quarantine rules and social distancing, stay out of school and obey all the laws.



Yet those entering the United States illegally need not follow such apparently superfluous COVID-19 rules. Their children should be immediately schooled without worry of quarantine. Immigrants need not worry about their illegal entry or residence in America. Our elites believe illegal entrants more closely resemble the "founders" than do legal citizens, about half of whom they consider irredeemable.



5. Most Americans should be treated as we would treat little children. They cannot be asked to provide an ID to vote. "Noble lies" by our elites about COVID-19 rules are necessary to protect "Neanderthals" from themselves.



Americans deserve relief from the stress of grades, standardized testing, and normative rules of school behavior. They still are clueless about why it is good for them to pay far more for their gasoline, heating, and air conditioning.



6. Hypocrisy is passé. Virtue-signaling is alive. Climate change activists fly on private jets. Social justice warriors live in gated communities. Multibillionaire elitists pose as victims of sexism, racism, and homophobia. The elite need these exemptions to help the helpless. It is what you say to lesser others about how to live, not how you yourself live, that matters.



7. Ignoring or perpetuating homelessness is preferable to ending it. It is more humane to let thousands of homeless people live, eat, defecate, and use drugs on public streets and sidewalks than it is to green-light affordable housing, mandate hospitalization for the mentally ill, and create sufficient public shelter areas.



8. McCarthyism is good. Destroying lives and careers for incorrect thoughts saves more lives and careers. Cancel culture and the Twitter Reign of Terror provide needed deterrence.



Now that Americans know they are one wrong word, act, or look away from losing their livelihoods, they are more careful and will behave in a more enlightened fashion. The social media guillotine is the humane, scientific tool of the "woke."



9. Ignorance is preferable to knowledge. Neither statue-toppling, nor name-changing, nor the 1619 Project requires any evidence or historical knowledge. Heroes of the past were simple constructs. Undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees reflect credentials, not knowledge. The brand, not what created it, is all that matters.



10. 'Wokeness' is the new religion, growing faster and larger than Christianity. Its priesthood outnumbers the clergy and exercises far more power. Silicon Valley is the new Vatican, and Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter are the new gospels.



Americans privately fear these rules, while publicly appearing to accept them. They still could be transitory and invite a reaction. Or they are already near-permanent and institutionalized.



The answer determines whether a constitutional republic continues as once envisioned, or warps into something never imagined by those who created it.

This is how to list to destroy a free and prosperous middle class.

[Anonymous]

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth~Albert Einstein.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Not everybody in Cuba is equally poor. The well connected live like kings. Just like any other corrupt dictatorship.



1619 Project creator touted Cuba as 'most equal' country in the Western Hemisphere, model for US

Nikole Hannah-Jones argued in 2019 that Cuba's socialist government affords residents a utopian form of racial equality unmatched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere

https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jones-cuba-most-equal?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210719Trending-1619Cuba&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jo ... ing%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jones-cuba-most-equal?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210719Trending-1619Cuba&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News



Last week, spontaneous uprisings erupted across Cuba as residents of the island nation bravely stood up to protest the pains inflicted upon them by the country's oppressive communist regime.



That news likely came as a shock to journalist and "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, who argued in 2019 that the country's socialist government affords residents a utopian form of racial equality unmatched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.



During an interview with progressive journalist Ezra Klein for Klein's podcast "Vox Conversations," Hannah-Jones touted Cuba as the "most equal" country in the Western Hemisphere, "largely due to socialism."



"Are there candidates right now or even just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda, and if so, what is it?" Klein asked, prompting the discussion.



"If you want to see the most equal, multiracial democ ... it's not a democracy — the most equal, multiracial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba," Hannah-Jones responded, despite admitting she's not an "expert" on race relations internationally.



"Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere," she continued. "I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean it's hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small. They're countries run by black folks. But in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that's largely due to socialism, which I'm sure no one wants to hear."



The National Pulse, which first unearthed the remarks, noted that the journalist also penned an op-ed in 2008 praising Cuba as a gold standard example for other countries to follow.



In the op-ed, Hannah-Jones commended the communist country for its high literacy rate, low HIV infection rate, and for bringing about the "end of codified racism."



"It manifests in what Cuba has accomplished, through socialism and despite poverty, that the United States hasn't," she stated.



What else?

After news broke about Hannah-Jones' past comments, conservative critics pounced.



"Please go to Cuba and stay in Cuba — Nicole [sic] Hannah-Jones," tweeted American Conservative Union senior fellow Mercedes Schlapp. "The anti-American factions in our own country fail to understand the horrors of Communism."



Another commenter quipped, "Yes, all the Cuban people are suppressed 'equally'!!!" adding, "Send Nikole to Cuba!"



"Note to Nikole: Cuba has 'equality' because everyone is equally desperately poor," another said.

[Anonymous]

Not everybody in Cuba is equally poor. The well connected live like kings. Just like any other corrupt dictatorship.



1619 Project creator touted Cuba as 'most equal' country in the Western Hemisphere, model for US

Nikole Hannah-Jones argued in 2019 that Cuba's socialist government affords residents a utopian form of racial equality unmatched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere

https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jones-cuba-most-equal?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210719Trending-1619Cuba&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jo ... ing%20News">https://www.theblaze.com/news/hannah-jones-cuba-most-equal?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210719Trending-1619Cuba&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News



Last week, spontaneous uprisings erupted across Cuba as residents of the island nation bravely stood up to protest the pains inflicted upon them by the country's oppressive communist regime.



That news likely came as a shock to journalist and "1619 Project" creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, who argued in 2019 that the country's socialist government affords residents a utopian form of racial equality unmatched anywhere in the Western Hemisphere.



During an interview with progressive journalist Ezra Klein for Klein's podcast "Vox Conversations," Hannah-Jones touted Cuba as the "most equal" country in the Western Hemisphere, "largely due to socialism."



"Are there candidates right now or even just places that you think have a viable and sufficiently ambitious integration agenda, and if so, what is it?" Klein asked, prompting the discussion.



"If you want to see the most equal, multiracial democ ... it's not a democracy — the most equal, multiracial country in our hemisphere, it would be Cuba," Hannah-Jones responded, despite admitting she's not an "expert" on race relations internationally.



"Cuba has the least inequality between black and white people of any place really in the hemisphere," she continued. "I mean the Caribbean — most of the Caribbean it's hard to count because the white population in a lot of those countries is very, very small. They're countries run by black folks. But in places that are truly at least biracial countries, Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that's largely due to socialism, which I'm sure no one wants to hear."



The National Pulse, which first unearthed the remarks, noted that the journalist also penned an op-ed in 2008 praising Cuba as a gold standard example for other countries to follow.



In the op-ed, Hannah-Jones commended the communist country for its high literacy rate, low HIV infection rate, and for bringing about the "end of codified racism."



"It manifests in what Cuba has accomplished, through socialism and despite poverty, that the United States hasn't," she stated.



What else?

After news broke about Hannah-Jones' past comments, conservative critics pounced.



"Please go to Cuba and stay in Cuba — Nicole [sic] Hannah-Jones," tweeted American Conservative Union senior fellow Mercedes Schlapp. "The anti-American factions in our own country fail to understand the horrors of Communism."



Another commenter quipped, "Yes, all the Cuban people are suppressed 'equally'!!!" adding, "Send Nikole to Cuba!"



"Note to Nikole: Cuba has 'equality' because everyone is equally desperately poor," another said.

Cuba is colour-blind.  

[Renee]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an idiot who has been elevated to the level of an intellectual by the woke academic community who are just nothing more than educated idiots themselves.



People like Jones are at the core of what is causing the insanity we are currently living in. They need to be discredited and crushed before we descend so far down the insane, woke, rat hole that it is too late.



The American Descent into Madness



"America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"



https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the- ... o-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/

[Anonymous]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an idiot who has been elevated to the level of an intellectual by the woke academic community who are just nothing more than educated idiots themselves.



People like Jones are at the core of what is causing the insanity we are currently living in. They need to be discredited and crushed before we descend so far down the insane, woke, rat hole that it is too late.



The American Descent into Madness



"America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"



https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the- ... o-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/

She has no ethics either.

[Renee]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an idiot who has been elevated to the level of an intellectual by the woke academic community who are just nothing more than educated idiots themselves.



People like Jones are at the core of what is causing the insanity we are currently living in. They need to be discredited and crushed before we descend so far down the insane, woke, rat hole that it is too late.



The American Descent into Madness



"America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"



https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the- ... o-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/

She has no ethics either.

Exactly,...She has been called out for using blatantly biased and false historical information in her "1619 Project", by multiple historians and she has yet to acknowledge that she did anything wrong or even answer the criticism in a logical or meaningful way.



She is guilty of academic fraud but that is a corner stone of the progressive academic agenda so she is protected and given undeserved credence.

[Anonymous]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an idiot who has been elevated to the level of an intellectual by the woke academic community who are just nothing more than educated idiots themselves.



People like Jones are at the core of what is causing the insanity we are currently living in. They need to be discredited and crushed before we descend so far down the insane, woke, rat hole that it is too late.



The American Descent into Madness



"America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"



https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the- ... o-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/

If protests were to continue in Cuba, and 1 million Cubans boated to Miami, the Biden Administration would stop the influx, in terror that so many anti-Communists might tip Florida red forever.

BULLSEYE!!

[Renee]

Nikole Hannah-Jones is an idiot who has been elevated to the level of an intellectual by the woke academic community who are just nothing more than educated idiots themselves.



People like Jones are at the core of what is causing the insanity we are currently living in. They need to be discredited and crushed before we descend so far down the insane, woke, rat hole that it is too late.



The American Descent into Madness



"America went from the freest country in the world in December 2019 to a repressive and frightening place by July 2021. How did that happen?"



https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the- ... o-madness/">https://amgreatness.com/2021/07/18/the-american-descent-into-madness/

If protests were to continue in Cuba, and 1 million Cubans boated to Miami, the Biden Administration would stop the influx, in terror that so many anti-Communists might tip Florida red forever.

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BULLSEYE!!

Yep...If just 30% of the illegal migrants coming across the US southern border were self proclaimed conservatives....Democrats would be laying mine fields all along the US side of the Rio Grande.

[Anonymous]

The American Democratic Party is as corrupt as the KMT in Taiwan.....and they're very corrupt.