Victor Davis Hansons Private Papers

Time 2021-05-04 21:07:09

Web Name: Victor Davis Hansons Private Papers

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I think daily, incrementally, insidiously the number of Americans that does not believe official Ministry of Truth communiques grows larger. And the number promulgating them for careerist purposes shrinks.The white-driven, Anti-Asian hate-crime spree lie is about dead. The data showed the very opposite: whites were under-represented as generic hate-crime perpetrators and in particular were not responsible for the uptick of anti-Asian violence, either proportionally or in absolute numbers. African-Americans were overrepresented, both generically and especially in the case of Anti-Asian crimes. The Capitol January 6 armed insurrection lie (as opposed to a spontaneous mob frenzy) is dissipating, despite the Biden whopper that it was more a threat than Pearl Harbor or 9/11 to democracy (5,000 were killed on those two days). We are learning by leaks, bits and pieces of witnesses, and an occasional honest account that there were no armed insurrectionary leaders  no protestor, however frenzied, killed anyone. Indeed, the only violent death was an unarmed veteran shot and killed by a — mysteriously unnamed–Capitol officer.  No Capitol officer was murdered by Trump crazies. No one was arrested with a firearm.No one any longer believes the government-peddled  great vaccination myth that systemic racism harms the marginalized from becoming vaccinated while recalcitrant white neanderthals endanger us all by conspiratorially refusing vaccination. In truth, there are plenty of vaccination spots everywhere now (one can walk into a pharmacy without an appointment and get a shot in minutes here in rural Fresno County). Whites have a higher percentage of  being vaccinated than Hispanics and blacks. And there are cultural and historical reasons, not current bias or racism, for the reluctance of the such groups.The big lie is based on a measurement of those who were actually vaccinated rather than the availability of vaccinations to all, regardless of race. In California from the very beginning there were efforts to target minority/majority communities, and to add in groups other than adjudicated by age (which is an equal-opportunity co-morbidity of COVID-19).Moreover, the media theme that a bunch of white deplorable nuts are endangering us all by not getting vaccinated, while historically oppressed minorities are not, by not getting vaccinated simply is eroding. With the government on the one hand worried sick that millions of doses will go unused, and with media hysterias on the other that the drug stores are wasting thousands of vaccinations that go unused, it is impossible to juggle the misinformation by simultaneously claiming that some minority groups are going unvaccinated because greedy whites grabbed all the doses and thus got vaccinated at disproportionate rates.So each day as the woke Minster of Truth narratives mount, so does the skepticism of a weary public to the propaganda.We are becoming cynical 1980s Eastern Europeans who quietly scoffed at their daily government news. And this is step one to a repudiation of the lies we have been living with—that masks were necessary outdoors even for those fully vaccinated; that derelict, sexual harasser Andrew Cuomo is a noted author, Emmy-winner and national icon rather than a reckless sexual-harasser and responsible for needless death and misery by his unhinged long-term facilities policies; that Oprah, LeBron,  and the Obamas are genuine voices of what it is like to be oppressed in America, and all the subsidiary untruths: the brave former intelligence officials who signed campaign-sensitive affidavits seconding Joe Biden s insistence that Hunter s laptop was a Russian disinformation trick; that Trump scoffed at proof that Russians put bounties on Americans in Afghanistan as they were appease;, and that Joe Biden has no cognitive issues and never did, at least of the sort that prompted his predecessor to take cognitive tests and draw the attention of a Yale psychiatry professor to diagnose him as unhinged in absentia.In the first episode of  Scholars Sense Bennett, Black Hanson talk about the American economy, inequality in the education system and the on-going left leaning bias in the media. You can voice your opinion at scholarsandsense@gmail.comAfter a hundred days of President Biden, I think most Americans are now on to what will follow in the next few years.Biden frowns. He grimaces. He occasionally barks and yells as he delivers a gloomy view of America and its people, past and present.Admit it: We are all racists, then and now, captives of Jim Crow still. Biden needs as many fabricated enemies as he can find; otherwise, his speeches, his demeanor, his agenda are little more than absurdities. They cannot stand or fall on their own merits because they have none. So grumpy Biden, in his latest and final incarnation, is always anti-something, usually anti-Trump, anti-racism, and anti-everything traditional America is for.As I wrote not long ago, I think we can expect a big boom of pent-up demand coming that will result in 5 percent or so of annualized GDP growth, maybe as early in late second or third quarter of 2021 lasting until mid-year next year but accompanied by inflation reaching 4-6 percent. And then at some point, depending on whether the Biden huge tax hike, green deals, and new regulations are in effect, a much higher inflation, slower growth, and recessionary trends in late 2022 or early 2023. So growth/boom/inflation/stagflation/recession?You say, So what? That s the natural order of things . Perhaps. But an entire generation has come of age without knowledge of anything but de facto zero interest, and little or no inflation, and plentiful jobs. I can attest from 1978-84, that inflation, recession, and unemployment can all exist at the same time. I can remember feeling lucky to have a farm production credit loan at 9% and knowing delighted friends who bought homes in 1981 at 10% and a family member who bought a car at 18% and felt he got a good rate. So buckle up Not too long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, these meritocratic departments and schools often still remain the world’s top-ranked.Certainly, top-notch higher education explains much of the current scientific, technological, and commercial excellence of the United States.After World War II—won in part due to superior American scientific research, production, and logistics—the college degree became the prerequisite for a successful career. The GI Bill enabled 8 million returning vets to go to college. Most graduated to good jobs.Two days ago, I drove in a 5-square-mile radius and noticed that the 100 or so farms I grew up with are all gone. Caput. Everyone. Not one grandkid, relative, etc. seems to be farming. The acreage seems either rented out or sold off.The land is usually leased to conglomerated operations (and the almond orchards look beautiful). Renters from Mexico and Central America mostly live in the clapboard decaying houses, and the barns and sheds look empty or eroding—or rented out to boarders. Often, they also sublet the yard to families living in trailers and make-shift sheds.

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