Victor Davis Hanson on our ‘path to Armageddon’

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John Bennett:

Historian Victor Davis Hanson recently gave one of the finest and most memorable presentations on the subject of immigration.

America could be on “a path to Armageddon,” given the blend of relativism, racial preferences, and nullified immigration laws, warned Hanson in an interview with Mark Levin, [link opens in pop-up, interview begins at 51:00].

Hanson is a military historian who taught the classics and is now a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Winner of the prestigious National Humanities Medal (2007) and the Bradley Prize (2008), his writing is generally seen as well reasoned and insightful.

Hanson offered a blistering attack on Republicans and left-wing immigration policy, pointing out that Republican leaders have stopped using the word assimilation. Assimilation used to be the ideal that was strived for by immigrants and encouraged by our society. Instead of urging assimilation, some Republicans are bizarrely promoting amnesty for people who are not assimilating.

Hanson pointed out that many of today’s immigrants are not repeating the pattern of the Italians or Greeks, as just two examples. While Latino studies programs can be found at almost all universities, one does not find such “studies” for Italians or Greeks. That is just one dramatic distinction between immigrants today and past immigrants.

The GOP’s Strategic Blunder

Hanson lampooned Republicans for floating amnesty at a time when the executive branch is increasingly lawless. “I don’t know why they would trust [Obama] after they told us not to trust him.”

As he has done with Obamacare, the president would simply ignore parts of any immigration law he disliked. If amnesty passed, the president would reject enforcement, but keep the amnesty.

That’s not the only ridiculous aspect of the pro-“legalization” approach. The timing of the proposal couldn’t have been worse, and there were several better alternatives. The pro-amnesty GOP could have delayed the proposal, or only discussed enforcement, but instead took the most divisive approach at the worst possible time.

Aside from being incompetent, the amnesty effort is also futile. “The establishment thinks it will be better liked and it can appeal to so-called Latinos which are not going to vote for them anyway because now they are going to add the wage of being weak in addition to being considered illiberal,” Hanson warned.

If the idea is to be liked by MSM, “we’re going to lose every time by trying to be liked.”

In a challenge to Republicans, Hanson said that the pro-amnesty GOP is ready to fall into Obama’s trap. “He’s going to not only make you look ridiculous, he’s going to make you look weak.”

Rather than playing into his hands, Hanson suggested a response to Obama rooted in the concerns of the middle-class. The response should emphasize that “[t]his president favors the very wealthy liberal elite and he’s creating a dependent culture for everybody on the bottom, and he does not care about the middle class. He finds the [middle class] without the romance of the poor and without the connections of the elite.”

Instead of amnesty, the Republicans should be pushing for limits on immigration. Hanson suggests that we can take 100,000 legal immigrants per year, but we can’t take one million per year, especially when they lack high school diplomas or English proficiency.

The “Destroyed” State of California

A Californian, Hanson has seen firsthand the fiscal, social, and educational problems stemming from illegal immigration. Illegal immigration is “the reason the state is destroyed,” Hanson bluntly stated.

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I think it is actually better that the Establishment Republicans tried to jump on the “immigration reform” (aka “amnesty”,) bandwagon before the primaries, than for them to continue to pretend that they plan to be tough on immigration during the primary season. and only show what RINOs they are afterward. The TEA Party will need to carefully vett “conservative” challengers for leadership seats, to weed out the flakes and the con-artists who pretended to be conservative only to turn out to be RINO’s once elected. (Such as Kelly Ayotte.)

Please Copy and Re-post:

I’m one of Millions of formally loyal supporters of the GOP, we donate small amounts and volunteer to make phone calls and knock on doors and do things we don’t like to do just to support the Republican party, the people you are taking for granted.
We’re also the folks who are standing by dumbfounded as you’re doing the Democratic socialist’s bidding of creating a whole new underclass of Dem voters granting amnesty to the illegal invaders.
You say we will lose if we don’t support the party – well, we’re going to be losing anyway so ‘what difference does it make?’ [To coin a phrase]
It should totally freaking obvious facts that:
A). The Leftist-Socialist National Media is NEVER GOING TO BE YOUR FRIEND – learn this really obvious fact and put it in big block letters over your desks so you can remember it.
B). The Media and the DNC are going to label you Racists, terrorists or whatever unless you cease to be Conservatives and become a variation of their Socialist selves.
C). Never do what the enemy wants you to do this is so blindingly so obvious the great strategist Sun Tzu didn’t bother saying this self-evident truth.
So GOP elite, Here’s what do you need to do lest you see me and millions of other bolt for the exits:
1). STOP SUPPORTING AMNESTY FOR 30 MILLION NEW DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.
Mark my words, you can either drop the insane idea of amnesty for the illegal invaders or you can destroy the party, It’s your choice. Pushing amnesty will either create 30 Million new voters for Democratic largess or it will fractionalize the party.
2). Stop insanely nominating Rinocrats in the futile hope that the media will be ‘nice’ to you and not put the full weight of their propaganda machine to work shredding said candidate.
3). Stop trying to outbid the socialist with government largess
It should be plain that you need to stand up for Conservative values – that is the only thing that will save the country from it’s inevitable demise at the hands of the socialists.
IF you do not do those simple things to save the party and save the nation, it will be By -by time . You can stuff your endless appeals for my donations, and your admonitions to volunteer will fall on deaf ears.
We can and we will leave – many already have and the exits are getting pretty jammed up – Anonymous

Anonymous
you said it so well, and so desperatly well, that i can feel it in my gutts that you are not joking, you are working hard at the base and you hate to do it for not having the same dedication on the higher level, and right you are, no one like to waste time if it’s not worthy, no money can buy that ,
you are not making it up,
YES THEY BETTER LISTEN, THE TIME FOR THEM DOING TO MAKE THEM FEEL GOOD AND STOP THE BLAME HAS NOT WORK,
NOW YOU MUST DO TO MAKE THE CONSERVATIVES VOTERS FEEL THAT YOU MEAN IT AND ARE READY TO BLEED FOR IT LIKE THE WARRIORS, IN AFGHANISTAN BEING SHOT IN THE BACK BECAUSE THEY WHERE TOLD TO TRUST THE AFGHANS THEY WHERE TRAINING,
THE CONSERVATIVES VOTERS ARE WATCHING YOUR EVERY MOVE, THEY DEMAND TO SEE YOUR GUTTS TO COME OUT AND SAY THIS FRIENDLY ACCOMODATION IS OVER, WHY
BECAUSE THE TIMES HAVE CHANGED AND NOW IT'S NOT US, IT'S AMERICA WHOLE SINKING,
AND ALTHOUGH YOU ALL LIVING TOGETHER IN THAT CROWDED MANY PART OF THE GOVERNMENT , YOU MUST END THE CLEAR MESSAGE THAT YOU WANT NOTHING OF THEM, NO GIFTS WILL BUY
YOUR SILENCE FROM NOW ON, NO PROMISSES, NO FAVORS, NO YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN AND MUST TAKE THE STAND REQUIRED AND LOUD ENOUGH TO BE HEARD,
IT'S THIS OR NOTHING FROM THE BASE, AND RIGHTFULLY SO,
YOU DO KNOW WHAT THE LAST CALL MEAN? YES IT MEANS THE LAST CALL, A PATH TO ARMAGEDDON,
YOU CHOOSE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO,

John Bennet
thank you for this POST, HE SURE KNEW WHAT HE WAS TALIKING ABOUT,
VERY TRUE,
AND THE TALK OF EVERY DAY SINCE LATELY DISCOVERED IS OF THE END, THE ARMAGEDDON THE FALL.
THE EXAUSTED TALKS OF GOING BACK TO BEFORE,
THE DESPAIR OF CITIZENS BEING HARASS, ORDER COMMAND,
COMPELLED, THE MORE CRIMINAL ACTIONS THAN EVER ,
THE DESPERATE SUICIDES OF PEOPLE, THE DRUG HARD DRUGS ALLOWED, NON STOP CORRUPTION, NON STOP ATTACK ON GOD AND CHRISTIANS, THE SLOPE HAS BEGUN SOME TIMES IN THESES LAST 5 YEARS, AND NOW ,
THE SPEED OF THE FALL IS MET uninterupted, sliding faster,
faster, faster toward total destruction,
no one is spare on this one,