THE WARNING SIGNS WERE WELL RECOGNIZED: 3/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 28 July 2024
⏱️ 13 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.
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| 0:57.0 | This is CBS I and the world with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, a classical scholar, |
| 1:06.1 | but he is also the author of the new book The Dying Citizen, how progressive elites, tribalism, |
| 1:11.3 | and globalization are destroying the ideas of America. of century my education said America is superior exceptional because we are the |
| 1:26.5 | great democratic experiment of the melting pot what did we mean by that |
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