Almost as soon as Obama uttered those fateful words “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” we have been undergoing a cultural and political revolution without a shot being fired. And most of us never knew what was coming – or did.
The phrase “Dense Pack” came into popular usage by us on the Right to describe how many things, via Executive Order and legislation passed by Democrat majorities in the US House and Senate, started to change not just our laws but our cultures as well. Obamacare was one, and the effective takeover of the automakers and dealers was another large item.
To me, we are approaching the tipping point; we haven’t already slid to the downside. Van Jones, Obama’s openly Communist friend, and advisor, infamously told us all what was going to happen: “Top Down, Bottom Up, and Inside Out.” And having lived through Obama’s two terms and now believing that Obama is the Puppetmaster behind the Resolute Desk’s chair, it’s clear that the Left hates the America founded by patriots that pledged their lives, honor, and fortunes.
We now see the New Left’s goal all along, in ruling vs. governing, was to destroy it. After all, that’s what the Left does – and too many people haven’t realized it yet.
Victor Davis Hanson, however, among the luminary thinkers on the Right, has a must-read column: “The Remaking of America (Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault).”
We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as far-reaching and dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.
The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath. The Revolution was boosted by fanatic opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump. And the result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was a mere decade ago.
Here are 10 upheavals that the Left has successfully wrought.
And he goes on to list the ten items and why these are being turned into cudgels. I’ll list them here but suggest that you go and read the narratives for each. In the aggregate, it is a long read, but with the normal VDH delivery, it is chockful of items, even with his minimalist but plain-speaking style. In order:
Free expression. In large swatches of American society—particularly the corporation, the media, the government, the public schools, and the university—it is suddenly dangerous to speak freely.
The Weaponization of Justice. …But in the last decade, the Left has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party—whose unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends…
The Attack on the Supreme Court. Once the Court achieved a more or less predictable conservative majority, the Left sought to diminish it in a variety of ways…
The Media-Democratic Fusion. …In sum, for the first time in American history, nearly all the major communication and journalistic networks have been fused with a political party. They believe the new role of the media is to advance a shared…
The Destruction of Common Law. By defunding the police in major cities, and by showering leftwing district attorney candidates with millions of dollars in campaign funding, the Left systematically eroded the law as we know it in our major cities…In sum, in blue states and at the federal level, leftwing prosecutors and justices decide to enforce or ignore statutes, pile up or reduce indictments, increase or decrease punishments not on what the law entails, or evidence directs, but on the race, class, or ideology of the perpetrator, usually in connection with the particular status of his victims. If asymmetry in race, class, or ideology is suggested, then the law must modulate in redistributive fashion to contextualize the crime and criminal as a victim rather than a victimizer. The result is the veritable destruction of law and order as we once knew it.
The Erosion of the Military. Rarely has the American people polled so little confidence in the U.S. military. It perceives the Pentagon mission largely one to greenlight social change through the rapidity of the chain of command, not necessarily to maintain deterrence, much less to win all its wars…
Sexes. The heterosexual male and female, marriage, and the nuclear family are all to be suspect. There are three sexes or perhaps still more. English language pronouns are inadequate to reflect sexual diversity.
Race, Not Class. Racial inequality and lack of parity are due to “whiteness.” Racial quotas, segregated dorms, graduations, workshops, and safe spaces are exempt from civil rights statutes given they are necessary to achieve equity…
Debt is a Construct. Modern monetary theory proved that annual deficits and national debt are just a state accounting challenge. So printing more money is an act that properly diminishes the value of existing capital improperly horded by parasitic profiteers…
Universities. …So the role of a university is to create a brief safe space in which graduates can leave with proper training about the terrible history of the United States and the ways in which it must be dismantled and then be rebuilt by the properly trained experts from the ground up. Counterrevolutionaries or deluded liberals and their quaint adherence to a racist and archaic Bill of Rights have no place on these islands of progressive resistance.
None of the above was true at the millennium; all are now—with more still to come.
And they are succeeding using their foundational tactic – “Don’t like the results, change the game.” Often this means redefining our common language – certainly, our norms and mores have been attacked. After all, when the Left can get a substantial minority (perhaps, soon, a majority??) to believe that sex can be anything you want, severing it from Reality, we’re goners.
(H/T: American Greatness)
