2/4: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson (Author)
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🗓️ 18 March 2023
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2/4: 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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| 0:35.4 | I'm John Datsuo with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, the professor as a |
| 0:39.2 | classicist, writing most recently, The Dying Citizen, How Progressive Elites, Tribalism |
| 0:44.3 | and Globalization are destroying the idea of America. |
| 0:48.0 | It is obvious that the Roman Empire was the first iteration of globalization. |
| 0:53.2 | We are several more advanced from that, but it's surprising how the pattern repeats itself. |
| 0:58.4 | Borders. |
| 0:59.4 | Victor, let's do some history here. |
| 1:01.5 | In 1965, the Heart Cellar Act rethinking immigration into America, migration into America, |
| 1:10.0 | people who came to America for either to send remittances home or to resettle without |
| 1:15.5 | going through the ordinary process of applying for US citizenship. |
| 1:20.0 | You write that it is now regarded, not you. |
| 1:23.5 | You report that it is now regarded one of the most, if not the most, thoughtless of the |
| 1:28.1 | great society. |
| 1:29.1 | How so? |
| 1:30.1 | How did it change things? |
| 1:32.0 | It destroyed the whole idea of meritocracy. |
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