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1/4: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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1/4: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X

In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.

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Here's John Batchler.

0:40.0

The Dying Citizen, a book by Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution,

0:44.9

how progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization, destroying the idea of America.

0:51.1

We begin with the middle class.

0:53.1

We begin, in fact, with Aristotle acknowledging the power of the middle class.

0:57.1

Victor does me the favor of translating from the Greek, he's a classical scholar.

1:02.1

Great then is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

1:10.1

Victor, congratulations, good evening.

1:12.1

We have a great deal of territory to cover, but we begin with the praise of the middle class

1:18.1

in classical Greece, in classical Rome, and through the empires ever since.

1:23.1

Why?

1:24.1

Why is the middle class important?

1:25.1

Good evening to you, Victor.

1:27.1

Good evening, John.

1:29.1

For a couple of reasons, one, of course, is that before the industrial revolution,

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