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THE WARNING SIGNS WERE WELL RECOGNIZED: 2/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 28 July 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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THE WARNING SIGNS WERE WELL RECOGNIZED: 2/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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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0:00.0

Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

0:06.0

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent.

0:11.1

Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

0:13.1

All right.

0:13.9

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

0:16.8

And don't get us started on Mel.

0:19.4

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

0:22.6

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

0:27.1

travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. I'm John that's who with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, the professor

0:38.8

is a classicist writing most recently the dying citizen how progressive elites

0:43.4

tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of America.

0:47.6

It is obvious that the Roman Empire was the first

0:51.2

iteration of globalization. We are several more advanced from that, but

0:55.6

it's surprising how the pattern repeats itself. Borders. Victor, let's do some history here.

1:00.8

In 1965, the Hart-Seller Act. some history here in 1965 the Heart Cellar Act rethinking immigration into

1:07.3

America, migration into America, people who came to America for either to

1:12.3

send remittances home or to resettle without going through

1:15.9

the ordinary process of applying for U.S. citizenship.

1:19.8

You're right that that was, that it is now regarded, not you, you report that it is now regarded not you you report that it is now regarded one of the most if

1:26.2

not the most thoughtless of the great society how so how did it change things it

1:31.8

destroyed the whole idea of meritocracy so it basically said

1:37.4

whether you have a bachelor's degree or a definable skill or some capital or some fluency with English, it doesn't matter anymore.

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