HEALTH CRISIS IN THE PRESIDENCY: 1/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
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🗓️ 11 February 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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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
1905 Republican National Committee Secretary Elmer Dover
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| 0:40.0 | The Dying Citizen, |
| 0:41.0 | A Book by Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, |
| 0:45.0 | How Progressive Elites Tribalism and Globalization |
| 0:48.0 | Destroying the Idea of America, |
| 0:51.0 | We begin with the middle class. We begin in fact with Aristotle |
| 0:55.0 | acknowledging the power of the middle class. Victor does me the favor of |
| 0:59.1 | translating from the Greek. He's a classical scholar. Great then is the good fortune of a state in which |
| 1:06.2 | the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. Victor, congratulations, good evening, |
| 1:12.4 | we have a great deal of territory to cover, but we begin with |
| 1:16.5 | the praise of the middle class in classical Greece, in classical Rome, and through the empires |
| 1:21.9 | ever since. Why? Why is the middle class important? |
| 1:25.0 | Good evening to you, Victor. Good evening, John. For a couple of reasons, one of course |
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