A new book by Victor Davis Hanson



Haven't read it yet. Just ordered it.

Reviews are that it is long and may be a chore to read because of so much detail.

But some key points:

Our way of life in the United States is under serious challenge

Examples of two big problems:

1) There has been a decline in the general population's sense of civic responsibility.

With rights come responsibilities. But a declining middle class doesn't recognize or accept those responsibilities the way they used to.
Being active and aware of politics are examples.

2)An unaccountable elite class has developed that has disdain for ordinary citizens. These are super rich people and powerful deep state people.

Hanson uses Mark Zuckerberg as an example where Zuckerberg funded $400 million in the 2020 election to help Democrats elect Biden.
Hanson also uses Comey and McCabe as examples of deep state actors who lie and act against the interest of ordinary people. These elites feel they are superior to the middle class and have the power to manipulate and mislead them.

Hanson discusses that college students today have no deep knowledge of American history and our evolution. All they know is the latest list of bad things being pushed by the radical left.

The result is a feeling that the traditional U.S. is obsolete. Citizenship has little meaning.

I am being overly simplistic in this summary, and have expressed my own thoughts from what I have read so far about the book.

Have it on my Nook and looking forward to reading it, as I have all of VDH's books.

quote:

1) There has been a decline in the general population's sense of civic responsibility.
But a declining middle class doesn't recognize or accept those responsibilities ...

2)An unaccountable elite class has developed that has disdain for ordinary citizens. These are super rich people and powerful deep state people.

Victor Davis Hanson is a very smart, good man. And he's a good author. I may read it.

But... the people who will read the book already know these things.
It's kind of like documenting the Fall of Rome. It didn't happen all at once and I'm sure it was frustrating for those who witnessed it.