What Would a Decline of America Look Like? | With Victor Davis Hanson

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when you look at sort of the future of of the country it’s it’s very difficult to imagine because America’s never experienced it the the possibility of like an an actual split country I shouldn’t say that we we almost experienced it during the Civil War obviously but since the Civil War we we’ve not really experienced the possibility of a serious split country or a for or a real foreign Invasion since 1812 and so what what exactly would a decline of America look like I mean you you can see how the how America would decline economically that would be very easy to for you could see the the Freedom of the Seas that essentially the US Navy guarantees going away as as the world fragments you could see the the sort of issues that we’ve seen in the Red Sea but expanded into the Taiwan Straits you could see a breakdown in global economics if if China were to blockade Taiwan uh and and interrupt the the superconductor Market or get Taiwan to to pass over the more sophisticated microchips to China thus upgrading their military in other words World fragmentation you can see but what does that look like in terms of America domestically how does that exacerbate internal divisions 150 years from now when people are writing the history of the United States and they say well here’s what they should have seen coming if it was inevitable here’s what it was was looking like what do you see yeah well right now does anybody believe that the US Navy has the power or the confidence to sail into some of the major waterways I don’t think that we’re going to send a fleet through the Red Sea I think we feel it’s off limits I think the Eastern Mediterranean Coast off Lebanon we don’t want want to get near I think this Administration does not want to put a fleet in The Straits of Hormuz no one would dare go up into the Black Sea and sail around that would be too dangerous so already there’s areas that our enemies have said if you come in here you would be attacked or it be too and you’re too risk averse and we’re going to provide enough risk so you’ll be averse to taking them and when you look at uh fin the finance I mean Israel has an Iron Dome Trump talks about we need an Iron Dome and we do do need a s but do we have the money even to do it and that that’s gets back to Li’s warning that when the malade when the medicine is worse than the malade you’re in permanent decline I mean can you really imagine people either raising taxes or cutting entitlements so that we could build a sophisticated uh air defense system against say North Korea or Iran that sent this I can’t I think people would say either heartless or you can’t do that and one of the things that starts always what happens is with decline it happened in Rome across the danu and the r is that you have this idea that you’re in Decline and they’re vigorous people on the other side of the border and maybe if you just destroyed the border and they came in and they had got a whiff of your Superior culture or in the case of late Rome Christianity then they would would become kind of an infusion of D dynamism that’s kind of the American creed about legal immigration but it it it depends on assimilation integration and it can’t happen unless the numbers are very small and the host is very confident so when we let in 10 to 12 million people and we think that they’re going to work really hard or they’re going to show they’re going to make us compete with them and they came from the poorest most God awful place I don’t think that’s going to happen I think what happens in at this late stage they get on entitlements or they commit crimes and uh they have no respect for any society that would let them in and that’s a good sign that of a decline that you don’t have a defensible border and and the reason that you don’t is you have the wherewithal but you think that you you need an infusion of dynamism because you’re a static inert aifi calcified society and that happened a lot in in in Antiquity in the Middle Ages the other thing is uh there is this growth of a I know it’s a tired word administrative state but if you look at the number of people who were permanently occupied at Versailles uh in the last years of the Bourbons 15,000 are under Philip II at the N the Apex and then the quick decline of the Spanish at the escaro 7,000 people you look at the Kremlin and the Soviet Union 10,000 people and we have this we have these judge jury and executioner people whether it’s you know Fran Francis Colin and fouchy or mayor all these unelected people and they’re exercising a degree of power that vastly exceeds a congress person or senators and uh they’re only Allegiance is to the ideology that created the administrative State and perpetuates it and it’s almost as if it’s like a coup that’s taken over and it involves the media and Academia and U Hollywood and entertainment and and so you you wonder how the citizen is going to get back the dying citizen is going to get back the the preeminence of the citizen to say you know what we we want to get rid of this Department of Homeland Security or Department of energy or Department of Education just because you’re too powerful and you do too much harm and and they can’t do it and that happened to Rome especially they can’t you can’t afford it they can’t do it so just to sum up when a society knows what it has to do and what’s killing it but it’s afraid that the remedy would be too controversial or too difficult for the patient to handle it does nothing and then the malade or the disease progresses and I think that’s where we are now every single person in politics knows we have to start we could go back tomorrow to Simpson Bow’s Paradigm that would have had us with a balanced budget and and no deficit you know 15 years if we had have adopted it we all know what we have to do with the the Pentagon we all know what we have to do with the Border we all know what we have to do with crime and yet we can’t do it because we we’re afraid of the the the being labeled a racist or xenophobe or sexist or transphobe or IL liberal or magga semi fascist Clinger or deplorable or redeemable drags chump all of those prives that been used so we’re kind of ossified right now and existing on the fumes of the past another thing is uh is very strange about these societies and decline they don’t have a romantic uh version of the past you would think that because they they think they have extended the glory and they’re still con they’re still Justinian City or they’s still a pamis of Thieves but they don’t really honor the past they don’t really say we have to live up to what these people did they have a I guess it’s a modernist idea that we apply the standards of the Modern Age to the past and find it wanting because they surely when they talk about Rejuvenation or restoration they don’t they don’t really articulate that we want to be Hannibal City again when when when you look at at you know say a map of the United States so usually when you look at an Empire decline the the map starts to change pretty radically uh you see the the the Roman Empire shrinking and then you see it breaking into two uh you see the the Soviet Empire breaking and the map changes and when when you look at the United States it’s it’s difficult to imagine how the map changes per se in the same sort of way obviously we got we’re very lucky God has blessed us with extraordinary geography we have autarchic economic power at a lower level of Economic Development obviously but we we have dominance across an entire con continent we have Canadians in our North who are no external threat to us we have Mexicans in our South who you know don’t seem to have they may have infiltrative power in in some of the Southwest particularly but now Across the Nation thanks to the drug cartels shipping people across the border uh but do you foresee the possibility of a change to the map of America in the same way that that there was a change to the map of say the British Empire or the Roman Empire or or anything else well it had been conventional wisdom that the salvation of the United States was the Federalist system the idea that we were not America we were the United States and that we had a system and the left of course hates that system where the house was popularly elected and represented the people and the Senate represented the states so that you know they had six years of a term they had to be older and you know Wyoming every Senator represents 250,000 California it’s 20 million and that was okay because the Senators represented the state and their Congressional Representatives represented the people and that would allow the states if you didn’t like some something in one state you could go to another state there was commonalities but there was enough respect for State autonomy that each state was experimenting in various degrees with consensual government more freedom less Freedom less taxes more regulation etc etc and then that was a safety valve so that this the the nation didn’t explode however the problem with Federalism is that when people are con glomerate in one geographical area that becomes a force multiplier and you create two alternative systems we saw that in the 1850s with the rise of the idea that even though 1% of the Southern population own slaves the other people and most people suffered from it both black and white black certainly but also white poor nevertheless there was a larger Paradigm that they accepted that the Holy Ground of the Confederacy we don’t want to pay for internal improvements tariffs or killings all of that stuff and they created a subculture the red States Mason Dixon south of it and that was the only time that had really happened but today when we look at things everybody is self- selecting and so I think 10 I I I saw the statistics 10 to 12 millioner uh Californians have left in the last 30 years right here and they go to places that are yes they go to Nevada they go to Arizona Georgia Tennessee Florida Texas even now we’ve got a lot of people going to Alabama and they do that because the so societies work they don’t have deficits they don’t have huge pension programs the police are trying to fight crime uh there’s a lot more Liberty as far as opening a business less regulations Etc and the blue Paradigm is not working and it’s collapsing uh and yet it inherited the Bic Coastal media the Bic Coastal universities it has uh a lot of the CEOs and corporate headquarters and so when you ask that question it’s it’s kind of scary because hon our federal system it only happened once but we’re starting to to see two different societies when I go to Florida or Tennessee or Texas and I come back to California or Washington it’s a very different place I mean you say to somebody in uh I don’t know Arizona do you watch the NBA no do you watch the Oscars never heard of it do you ever watch the Tony ory nope do you watch uh NBC ABC Network neres nope you go to a first run Hollywood movie nope do you watch late night comedy on TV nope and uh they do do you what what do you know about transgenderism I don’t know anything about it it’s just M Monastery of the Mind where a whole half of the country is culturally socially disconnecting and the the thing is that the north always from the Civil War Days had all of the advantages they had the industry they had the capital they had Wall Street they had Harvard and Yale and and then they had the west coast and Oregon and and so you thought that that wouldn’t be possible and yet what’s happening is you’re seeing a red State antithesis that is draining the blue states of all the talent and using the old Blue State model uh in red States and the red States in some way uh are more like the north of the 1850s and the the blue states are more like the Confederacy in a sense they’re obsessed with one drop racism in the wokeness they love to nullify federal laws like Sanctuary cities like uh they hate the Supreme Court uh and I’m very worried about it because all these are forc multipliers of differences and uh I don’t know what so far we have these common we common military common media and some but even that is bifurcating and uh I can see a a point and some if something doesn’t done the white male rural Soldier will not join the military anymore and if something is not done there will be two entirely separate Medias there will be no intersection between them at all and if something is not done uh I think there’s going to be an implosion of Chicago Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles New York they’re not sustainable in the present so yes we’re going to be in a very dangerous position unless we get a unifying type of administration in Congress are you tired of the lies and the twist of the mainstream media talking points yeah me too join me in my newest series fact where I dismantle and bring truth to this tiring mainstream agenda

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What Would a Decline of America Look Like? | With Victor Davis Hanson

Truly Right View: Advocating for Free Speech in the Age of Political Censorship

Introduction: What is Free Speech Today?

The Constitutional Perspective: Why Free Speech is Non-Negotiable

Social Media and Cable News: Platforms or Gatekeepers?

Social Media Influencers: Fighters for Freedom or Puppets of Censorship?

The Dangers of Socialism, Communism, and Fascism: A Threat to Free Speech

The Truly Right View: Defending Freedom in the Digital Age

Join the Fight: Sign Up for Our Channel and Newsletter

Will You Speak Up or Stay Silent?

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