Victor Davis Hanson
President
Joe Biden believes the Ukraine war will mark the start of a “new world order.”
In the middle of the COVID global pandemic, Klaus Schwab and global elites
likewise announced a “great reset.”
Accordingly, the nations of the world would have
to surrender their sovereignty to an international body of experts. They would
enlighten us on taxes, diversity, and green policies.
When former President Donald Trump got elected in
2016, marquee journalists announced partisan reporting would have to displace
the old, supposedly disinterested approach to the news.
There is a common theme here.
In normal times progressives worry that they do
not have public support for their policies. Only in crises do they feel that
the political Left and media can merge to use apocalyptic times to ram through
usually unpopular approaches to foreign and domestic problems.
We saw that last year: fleeing from Afghanistan,
the embrace of critical race theory, trying to end the filibuster, pack the
court, junk the Electoral College, and nationalize voting laws.
These “new orders” and “resets” always entail far
bigger government and more unelected, powerful bureaucracies. Elites assume
that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting, voting, sovereignty,
and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to themselves, the
architects of such top-down changes.
So we common folk must quit fossil fuels, but not
those who need to use corporate jets. Walls will not mar our borders but will
protect the homes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.
Hunter Biden’s lost laptop will be declared, by
fiat, not news. In contrast, the fake Alfa Bank “collusion” narrative will be
national headline news for weeks.
Middle class lifestyles will be curbed as we are
instructed to strive for sustainability and transition to apartment living and
mass transit. But the Obamas will still keep their three mansions, and Silicon
Valley futurists will insist on exemptions for their yachts.
In truth, we are about to see a radical reset—of
the current reset. It will be a different sort of transformation than the
elites are expecting and one that they should greatly fear.
The world and the United States are furious over
hyperinflation that may soon exceed 10 percent per year. We will be lucky if it
ends only in recession or stagflation,
rather than a global depression.
The mess was created by the same apparat who
bought into “modern monetary theory.” That silly university idea claimed
prosperity would follow vastly expanding the money supply, keeping interest
rates at de facto zero levels, running huge annual deficits, piling up
unsustainable national debt, and subsidizing workers to stay home.
Natural gas and oil costs are now soaring to
unsustainable levels—and to the point where the middle class simply will not be
able to travel, keep warm in winter, or cool in summer.
Both in Europe and the United States left-wing
governments deliberately curbed drilling and non-Russian pipelines. They shut
down nuclear power plants and subsidized costly, inefficient solar and wind
projects. They ended up not with utopia, but with fuel shortages, high prices,
and energy dependency on the world’s most repressive regimes.
The woke revolution in the West was supposed to
teach us that the “white male”-dominated Western world is toxic. Its origins,
ascendence, and current leisure and affluence were supposedly due only to
systemic exploitation, racism, and sexism.
Elites introduced cancel culture, doxxing,
deplatforming, and social ostracism to shame these supposed exploiters and to
destroy their lives and careers.
Few asked how a supposedly noxious West of some
2,500 years duration became the number one destination of millions of global
non-Western migrants and offered the greatest degree of global prosperity and
freedom for its citizens.
So a reset reckoning is coming—in reaction to the
“new orders” championed by Biden and the Davos set.
In the November 2022 midterms, we are likely to
see a historic “No!” to the orthodox left-wing agenda that has resulted in
unsustainable inflation, unaffordable energy, war, and humiliation abroad,
spiraling crime, racial hostility—as well as arrogant defiance from those who
deliberately enacted these disastrous policies.
What will replace it is a return to what until
recently had worked.
Closed and secure borders with only legal and
measured immigration will return. Americans will demand tough police
enforcement and deterrent sentencing, and a return to integration and the
primacy of individual character rather than separatist fixations on the “color
of our skin.”
The public will continue to tune out of the
partisan and mediocre “mainstream” media. We will see greater increased
production of oil and natural gas to transition us slowly to a wider variety of
energy, strong national defense, and deterrent foreign policies.
The prophets of the new world order sowed the
wind and they will soon reap the whirlwind of an angry public worn out by elite
incompetence, arrogance, and ignorance.
1 comment:
Chuck, we are working hard in Arizona to keep the RED strong our state.
California has poured new residents into our state claiming they will turn us Blue.
The battle is on and we (RED's) are holding strong and gaining momentum.
Thanks for your Blog and your insights.
Your friend in Scottsdale, Hilda Villaverde
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