Mistreatment of the American Middle Class | Victor Davis Hanson
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2023
- In this historic short, Victor Davis Hanson talks about the misunderstanding of middle class America from the media to politicians.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. Wise, coherent, articulate, and unashamedly forthright.
And how many people are interested in this??? We-re inundated with garbage. That sells. People listen to low IQ activists like Cory Bush instead of intellects like him. Sad.
So very true!
Also Mr. Mark Levin.
Thank you for your thoughts.
This is seriously depressing but so very true. As an “older person” I find it deeply saddening that in my lifetime, I saw the USA reach its zenith of prestige and power on 20 July 1969, only to see it precipitously decline over the subsequent half century to the sad Elite-greed convulsed, self-loathing and fractured society it is in 2023. So desperately sad. As an Australian I, like so many of my countrymen looked to America as the light of our species - flawed, yes as are we all, but at least trying to redress those flaws. Should the US fail, the replacement world hegemon will possess neither the humanity nor the introspection of the land of E. Pluribis Unum. Thanks to Victor Davis Hanson and John Anderson for the huge service of shining a light on this malaise.
Very well said !
I WAS BORN IN N.Y MY PARENT'S MOVED US TO AUSTRALIA WHEN I WAS 6 , I USED TO THANK THEM AFTER SEEING HOW BAD AMERICA HAS BECOME BUT NOW AUSTRALIA IS CATCHING UP FAST = THERE ARE NO COUNTRIES ANYMORE ONLY THE UNELECTED WEF / U.N / KLAUSE SCHWAB AGENDA = OUR GOV DOES NOT WORK FOR US ANYMORE , IT WORK'S FOR THEM ..............
I remember gathering around the TV to watch it, life in that period in time was completely different. A very extroverted society of very colorful, mainly good people. Parks on the weekends would be packed with family reunions, the carnival coming to town was a big deal. The only bad part was hearing about the daily casualties in Vietnam from Howard K. Smith or Harry Reasoner and hoping to stay up late enough to watch the Johnny Carson monolog. I'm sickened by what I've seen happen over the last three years, let alone 50, it seems like the digital fall of Rome 376-476. It's not a question of if, it's when.
When I hear foreigners disparage the US, I ask them, "Who was the great philanthropist that we should look up to? Which statesman set up and ran their country the way you expect the US to achieve?"
They want and expect utopia, but they're too child-like to realize they want unicorns.
Well said and spot-on Covert!
The USA has Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hanson, two men of incredible insight and wisdom and yet they are barely listened to by the powers that be.
Their audience starts to die out.
I WAS BORN IN N.Y MY PARENT'S MOVED US TO AUSTRALIA WHEN I WAS 6 , I USED TO THANK THEM AFTER SEEING HOW BAD AMERICA HAS BECOME BUT NOW AUSTRALIA IS CATCHING UP FAST = THERE ARE NO COUNTRIES ANYMORE ONLY THE UNELECTED WEF / U.N / KLAUSE SCHWAB AGENDA = OUR GOV DOES NOT WORK FOR US ANYMORE , IT WORK'S FOR THEM ..............
@@robot336 at least some of us know that. I stopped voting for the major parties 3 or 4 decades ago and I haven't watched the mainstream media or their news in almost as long. We are being sold out to the new fascist government run by the UN and WEF with Klaus at the wheel. There's no place left to run so I guess we had better start standing our ground.
@@tele-scope which appears to be a pandemic of epic proportions!
Can you imagine the meeting of the minds between VD-H and Biden? What a mismatch! And the idiot in the room has all the power!!!
" Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. " ---- Voltaire
Victor Davis Hanson ,an exceptional Intellect that is Morally upstanding as well..
Highest respect to Victor Davis Hanson
You are so freaking correct. As an African American I truly truly agree. I just fear we have long past the point of no return.
Actually? No, they're not, or rather, he's not. Yes, it SOUNDS right. But then- it also did, when he was predicting a "Red Wave", massive changes, and more.
No. I SPOKE THE TRUTH. NO "Red Wave"- that the very BEST that would happen, would be a tiny majority in the house- which would mean absolutely NOTHING, because there are maybe 30, who WILL VOTE with the Weaponized Progressives (WPs)? Because THEY ARE WPs.
This is what happened. This is what WILL happen. Because we've done NOTHING, to fix the base problem, which I've stated before it's nature, and solutions- but none care.
And so, we continue down a path of destruction. Guessing, all the way to the edge of the cliff, on how to stop.
Whether you are an African, or you are an American, you can not be both ?
I WAS BORN IN N.Y MY PARENT'S MOVED US TO AUSTRALIA WHEN I WAS 6 , I USED TO THANK THEM AFTER SEEING HOW BAD AMERICA HAS BECOME BUT NOW AUSTRALIA IS CATCHING UP FAST = THERE ARE NO COUNTRIES ANYMORE ONLY THE UNELECTED WEF / U.N / KLAUSE SCHWAB AGENDA = OUR GOV DOES NOT WORK FOR US ANYMORE , IT WORK'S FOR THEM ..............
@@JamesBond-yn8kd just said it for context
There are trains in life which are chances, or options to take action. We are caged now until a human made bomb is made which is just everyone losing their actual minds.
Thank you, Victor D. Hanson, for your continuous voice of the forgotten class. I was raised in the rustbelt (my family and friends are still there) and have lived in NYC for the past plus twenty years. I weep for my home community. Such good hardworking, grounded people. Salt of the Earth. Honest, kind, and sincere. Now forgotten. Abandoned. Looked down upon. For some reason if you are white and poor in this country, you are the problem. As another commenter stated- so desperately sad.
If you are white at all in this country you are looked down on.
He's brilliant and honest.
Thank GOD for this man. We need more like him !!
I have saved this 8 minutes of brilliance! What a fantastic summary of the World and threats we all face from the lunatics who rule us.
The problem we have with our system is not so much that "big tech" is anti-democratic as Victor Hanson was in that video. It's more like capitalism trumps democracy. That is the problem especially when we have a "donor owned" government. Not that what I'm about to say is about Donald Trump but just how the "system" works, "what was the first thing Donald Trump did when he took office in January 2017?" He rewarded his donors and he wasn't even ashamed of it. He rewarded them with a tax break, albeit a neoliberal or a neoconservative. It didn't matter to him...he got in office. And the same for a Democrat...they play by the same rules.
We have "Citizens United" for example. Corporations are considered "people" now. Corporations can give an unlimited amount of money to a candidate of their choosing. The Supreme court ruled in favor of it. It never used to be this way but times have changed...morals have changed. So, politicians respond to how they're incentivized. You have Bernie Sanders, for example...all his talk about "corruption" and having a "political revolution" was just nonsense. He ended up endorsing a candidate like HC who stands for the very things he's against...neoliberalism (neoliberalism is an economic policy). Go figure. How do you do that? Oh, 'cause Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump! Nonsense! He needed to stick to his guns but instead betrayed all who followed him...he deceived them. It turns out that he's done nothing more than "sheep dog" voters to the Democratic party...a party like the Republican party who had long ago sold out to the corporate state. This is where we get our fascistic undertones. And speaking about Sanders and corruption, it wasn't too long ago that he took $200k from his campaign fund and put it in his family's non profit family business. How does that grab you?
Fascistic undertones are right under our noses (whether Dem. or Rep.). Democracy? It's an illusion. There is none in a donor owned government. It's "socialism" for them and harsh capitalism for the rest of us. The rich love socialism only when it favors them but when it's meant for the betterment of society (I'm not suggesting we get rid of capitalism), they don't want to pay into it. This is one of the biggest reasons why we can't have Med4all. But, no matter how bad inflation gets, we have money for the Ukraine...no problem. What's in it for the middle and lower classes? The majority of the money doesn't really go to the Ukraine, does it? It goes to American corporations (MIC) that manufacture the stuff that's used in war...munitions, guns, food etc. Everything that's needed to sustain those in a war...that's what goes to the Ukraine. We all pay for it and part of that money makes its way back to politicians (a win-win...one for the corporation and the other, the politician). Have you ever thought about how much the wealthy really pay? And then we have the deficit. I guess that's the fault of the middle class, too without having any real control of the macro economy...as if they're the employers, right? I wonder why the UAW workers are striking? Think they were getting a fair shake? In an interview, GM CEO Barra who makes millions has to say the workers get "world class" healthcare. That's just it, it's to the advantage of GM to have it including small companies. How many workers stay because of healthcare? If they leave they lose it. Employers understand this. Another reason why we can't have Med4all. Btw, GM plans to idle 2000 workers.
The problem is that the American public, particularly the middle class continues to do the very definition of "insanity" expecting a different outcome. Nothing will ever change. We need more than just a two party system. We can use more. Perhaps then they'll start to listen? It will probably put fear in their hearts.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” Edmund Burke. Well here are two good men trying to do the opposite, thank you to both of them for giving the courage to carry on and have hope.
I know that quote doesn't make sense good men don't sit around with their finger in their a** while evil rises.
Victor Davis Hansen is one of a very small number of people in the United States who is a very well adjusted individual. People like Mr. Hansen should be leading our country.
EXACTLY what I was going to write.
Please God no. More tribal partisanism is the last thing we need.
He’s wonderful.
VDH is the greatest voice from the USA.
No he isnt. President Trump is.
@@halfdome4158 no lol. Hansen is a much more articulate person with better ideas by a long shot.
An exceptional scholar….I love Victor Davis Hanson
I’m a Venezuela and came here a decade ago and I wanted to blend with the people here and I tried to forget how things are done in Venezuela and learn how things are done here , I never encounter racism and every person that came my way were more than willing to lend me a hand from the middle class to the upper class , shout-out to Ohio ! ❤😂
As an American middle class single man ,
I agree with this statement and hope that politics turns itself around before I surrender and leave the country for a better retirement elsewhere
Better plan your escape... i am working on it myself.
I'm always amazed at how sneaky and lawless the democrats can be
Yes, just when you want to believe that they have ran out of nasty tricks, they hit us with something more vile and disturbing than the past…😡😡😡
… amongst their many evil-arrows is the tactic of blanket-blaming the opposition of the very misdeeds being commited…
Oh, they are relentless! Perpetual attacks from all sides, in every possible way they can come up with. And when they win, they attack even harder and become even more ruthless. Never, ever let your guard down when it comes to the far left side. Never!
Fool. As long as the "lower and middle classes" keep voting for republicans they will continue fighting against unions that provide you with higher wages. They will continue their assaults on the programs you rely on. Social Security. Medicare. Obamacare. Higher minimum wage. The republicans represent nothing that benefits workers.
I’m always amazed by the GOP’s enabling of the democrats’ agendas. They never push back on anything and allow the lunatics to run the asylum.
Just discovered Victor Davis Hanson - Wow this guy really.has an understanding of society at all levels in th USA.
Absolute PRIVILEGE to hear this Gentleman, Mr. Victor Davis Hanson.
Thank you, Sir. 👏
Victor is a real intellectual.
His message cuts through the smoke and mirrors of the left and media.
What a treasure this man is to our country and ultimately to the world. He has his finger on the pulse of everyday people. God bless and protect him.
He states the obvious as every channel does. Does talking about abusers fix them? Nah. They the abusive laugh, and have been forever as you flail around. The leaders are just mocking you. They know what is rational.
@@matthewcurry3565 please tell us what is "rational"
@@groth3395 Btw, you ever watch monsters INC. As a kiddo? I suggest you think deep about that message in that film.
He is speaking reality as does Sowell…they both are treasures….
That speaks of my wife and myself. The big thing going on in what is said is America,
"We don't support America".
When a large part of the population is not supporting the government. You have to force that population to comply. ( Very dangerous situation. )
May God bless this man.
My God, I am so grateful Victor is with us and creating content. His ability to articulate and distill concepts and cultural criticism to the poignant essence is absolutely amazing. His analogy about leftists being court jesters who live at the court and make fun of the court while being beneficiaries of the court is sublimely genius.
Isn't it strange that both the majority and minority speakers of the house are from New York and California..... Just food for thought
It is endlessly stunning to me - now that I know how, just how straight forward almost , simple THE truth is .
mr Hanson has nailed it .The anointed are destroying this country
There is no truth anymore,love this guy
Would it be horribly crass of me to say "FUQ YEAH!" ? Forgive me, I'm well immersed in the dilemma of which this great man speaks.
I WAS BORN IN N.Y MY PARENT'S MOVED US TO AUSTRALIA WHEN I WAS 6 , I USED TO THANK THEM AFTER SEEING HOW BAD AMERICA HAS BECOME BUT NOW AUSTRALIA IS CATCHING UP FAST = THERE ARE NO COUNTRIES ANYMORE ONLY THE UNELECTED WEF / U.N / KLAUSE SCHWAB AGENDA = OUR GOV DOES NOT WORK FOR US ANYMORE , IT WORK'S FOR THEM ..............
@@robot336 It's not over yet. Rumor has it GOD WINS
Mr. Hanson just lays it out in such a easy comprehensive way. Would love to meet him someday.
VDH has just provided the best summary of the zealotrous left that I have ever heard. The court jester analogy is phenomenal.
VDH is gold.
Victor Davis Hanson is a powerhouse of knowledge and reason and absolutely vital to the well being of America.
Thank you so much for explaining our sad reality. We need more people like you.
Brilliant analysis IMHO. VDH really laid out very well the current state of our nation.
He speaks the truth. I wish all Americans would hear this. To many people have their heads in the sand.
Love you brother!!! Very well said ALWAYS!!! Thank you for your continued insight/breath of fresh air from the Bay!!!!
A great man - never on the BBC of course.
Mr. Hansen hit the nail on the head. Exactly right
My concern is with our youth. My grandkids struggle with the values they were raised with and the narrative everything in their world is telling them. Adolescence is a turbulent time to try your wings and figure out your opinions. Now, it isn't think for yourself. Instead, they struggle with being told in school, on social media, by their peers - think what we tell you or suffer the consequences. It is a brutal world for them. God help them and us all.
Mistake to send them to school. All of that has to be unlearned now.
When Victor Davis Hanson finally leaves us, The World and especially The USA will have lost a titan of honesty, truth and just old fashioned common sense it will be a very sad day for all.
Once again the question remains, why do people vote for oppression and having a kleptocracy rule over them? If you don’t have the courage or intelligence to look at political agendas you fully deserve every single catastrophe that comes your way. And do not plead ignorance, American voters seem to view politics in the same way they do sports, my team vs your team. Voting for the other party becomes an ego issue. “I can never be wrong”. Add this attitude to the way they obey the media. They only watch the side that repeats what they have in their echo chambers, again an ego issue. The American voter created this quagmire and, in keeping with hubris, lack the ability to accept any blame for the situation.
Americans are smart, smart, smart but not that smart.
No, the Dems cheated! Granted it shouldn’t have been close enough to cheat, but they did cheat
You missed the part where VDH talked about the election fraud. Don't blame the voters, take a look at the man behind the curtain.
"A monastery of the mind"! Well said Sir!
It is the same in Britain and Europe….
I am so thankful for your work Dr. Hanson , I admire you so much, as would have given anything , we are about the same age, so be taught by Dr. Thomas Sowell but did study eco. and love Milton Friedman!! and never forget the great Enoch Powell of England who did his best to warn us !! AS FOR ME I HAD RATHER DIE ON MY FEET THAN EVER LIVE ON MY KNEES AND I AM WILLING TO DIE FOR IT!
I was born the night before John F. Kennedy was sworn in as president. That country has all-but disappeared.
VDH A mind of sanity and perspective in these shocking changes for USA
The affluence of the Middle Class is fading. They have been mesmerized by the Entertainment Industry with all sorts of Fantasy. Now they will learn the hard reality of the Empire ruling them.
VDH is 100% spot-on here!
Victor david Hansen for speaker of the house
America needs to wake up!
Well said Bravo!
When Jordan Peterson is being forced to undergo re-education it is a clear sign that to underestimate the powers at work is frightening folly.
Was that before or after he flew to an autocratic dictatorship to go into a chemically induced coma to avoid the consequences of his actions?
@@Shamino1 How are the ESL classes going son?
We don’t have to go along
Time for a National Divorce.
It is the same in Australia, we have become a society that worships the celebrities and sporting elite but take the all important stuff that makes their life what it is in a modern city, totally for granted!
Amen. Just as we Texans say, "You left your state for a reason," Americans say, "You left your country for a reason." Don't change my state. Don't change my country.
Wise words
You are a very impotant voice , Victor Davis Hanson .
John Anderson looks truly grim. He is afraid for us, he knows it is true! Australia needs a strong America, and here we are in terrible decline.
The ruling elites must crush the working class to maintain ruling power! That's the way it is and the way it has always been!
He is exactly correct. I know a lot of people. I can only think of two who are woke. The rest of us do not trust the government, the politicians, the universities, the news media or the medical profession. I am sure with a little thinking I could expand this list a lot!
This is so sadly true ~ yes, come and meet the real America. The terrible and influential people that VDH mentioned don’t represent me at all.
Thanks for saying exactly what I feel.
I grew up in Palos Verdes circa 1960-70. Nothing, nothing will ever be that way again.
Great commentary, all too true. The structures and institutions are not representative of the average, normal citizen. I just suppose it just has to collapse to the ground before anything changes.
That would be fantastic but if that happens it also gives our enemies opportunities to remake it in their own vision. We cannot let that happen.
. *WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO LOVES AMERICA, NOT A PRESIDENT WHO HATES IT.*
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*VOTE VOTE VOTE*
*WE CAN ... AND WILL ... MAKE A DIFFERENCE !!!*
Watching and listening to VDH, for me, is the same thing as watching and listening to Thomas Sowell. I only wish I had started watching him and reading his work years ago. Truly amazing. Thanks for posting the video. Wow.
Why are we seeing this three years later?
I came to america from south korea when i was 9 months old. No south korean would be free today if it weren’t for all the americans and allies who died in the korean war. I joined the marines after high school and became a us citizen while enlisted. If you are going to immigrate to a country, you must respect the people and the culture of your host nation by assimilating as much as possible
Thank you for speaking for us!!
Whoa....he definitely hit the nail....I know for myself, I've disconnected from all those things he mentioned. Geez
I wouldn't watch the NBA if they played in my house
Thank you
Heart of Kentucky. Hi VICTOR DAVIS HANSON. Love to hear you talk. AMERICA needs YOU. The GOP in Congress, have started, right off, making dramatic changes for the better. It's exciting. With their help, we the people are going to make 2023 better than 2022. DONALDO TRUMPO is PRESIDENT TRUMP. We stand with him the whole way forward. Katie.
Thank you, sir
Truth!!!!!
Kamala articulated something? You'd be kiddin' us!
I am not without hope but believe that America is circling the drain. I foresee social and economic collapse in the near future.
Still time to right the ship but we must stand up for what is good & correct. Bad policies are killing this country. Stop the systematic dismantling of what makes our country great. Follow the Constitution, obey the laws and work for income.
Agreeeeed
Things are winding up
Brilliant!
My thoughts exactly
Hope we can recover
Cheers
Outstanding intellectual. VDH is speaking for me.
I hope the majority of the American people watch this
The problem with what's going on with how the middle class is being treated is that the ones who are doing it truly don't realize that they are solely dependent on us. George Carlin once said " The powers that be don't want well informed people capable of critical thinking. They want a society of people just smart enough to push buttons and file the paperwork". To some degree people are ok with letting that happen so long as they can have a life but it has pushed past that now. The assumption that just because one is middle class and that means that they are not intelligent and or easily manipulated is being pushed to dangerous levels and people who were once content to let things slide and pushing back.
AMEN!
Thank you for sharing your insights into election results. I think much of the problem relates to mass media working in lock step with the current administration. This media glorifies the administration because it supports their motives. It's time for change.
Absolutely.
Not just this administration, any interest that wants to undermine America.
They need to quit picking people because of race.they need to pick them because they are good for the job. We are all one.
I sit in Vermont. The second most progressive state in the county, a neo-Communist, socialist dominated culture. Truly distopian. I refuse to watch any corporate media or listen to NPR. I read and have turned to other sources for information. I keep telling people to turn off corporate mediia and to think for themselves.
Exactly!
If only wisdom like this was commonplace in the halls of power.
Facts
This is sooo true and we are going to fix this soon.
That man is so dang smart and highly educated
I come from a family treated all people equal since we came over as immigrants and worked hard
This man has tremendous recall for his age.
Wow. Monastery of the Mind. I'm there. Just thought it was my gray hair.
Yaaaawn …what did you say
Yes you got that right
"Living in the Monastary of the Mind." Once again, Professor Hanson appears to be spying on me.
I've been saying this for years . People coming here believe life is violent or cool like on t.v. sitcoms.
Love VDH but it would be nice if
his podcast would post on the day it’s recorded. Please!