He is right – we are seeing patches of America that are degenerating into some kind of ThunderDome dystopia. We do have places, especially in our urban areas, that rival any banana republic or third world nation landscape. Victor Davis Hanson, a professor of the Classics and military history in the California university system, has been chronicling how the parts of California ignored by the elites have been degenerating into geography indistinguishable from parts of Mexico, where a lot of the illegal aliens are coming from. Assimiliation? Not even a concept to these Johnnie-come-latelies; what’s worse, many of the American citizens there don’t have a clue as to their history and the underpinnings of what made America great – they wait only on the monthly check and hope that the roving bands leave them alone.
Democrats are like Feminists in believing that they can have it all – all it takes is a bit more money from those, as Obama has famously declared “who don’t need it”. Really, Mr. President – you win election to be our head employee and that gives you the right to say who needs what just on your say so? How unAmerican is that? Yet, we see from many on the Left that same message; from the rafters, they scream “America is a wealthy nation – why should the poor suffer when these few have more than they should have”?
Problem is, Democrats / Progressives have made three fundamental errors:
