The Hypocrisy of the Left | Victor Davis Hanson
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Victor Davis Hanson describes the moral hypocrisy of the elite-left, and how they use power and influence to control the middle and lower classes. This comes at a time when the wealthy pollute far more than the average citizen, but justify their actions anyway, while piling blame on everyone else.
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Victor Davis Hanson is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on contemporary politics for the National Review and The Washington Times and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
In addition to writing hundreds of articles, book reviews and newspaper editorials, Hanson is also the author of twenty-four books and hosts a regular podcast series, 'The Victor Davis Hanson Show'. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007-08 on the American Battle Monuments Commission. His latest book, The Dying Citizen, was published in October 2021.
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Love hearing his thoughts. He’s calm,articulate,and brilliant.
I always have time for Victor Davis Hanson, great observations!
No. Partial "great observations". If they're so "great"? Why are they not littered with solutions to END this evil? Because they're still at a loss to what is REALLY going on, and what to do about it.
My post? GIVES a solution. One that will work, if we but TRY. #ENDtheWPM NOW.
Two wonderful intellects.
Mr. Hanson just has a way of explaining events that makes it so simple to understand. Thanks.
As one lady said about the hypocritical Left about the environment: private jets for them, the bus for us.
I've worked since 13. Retired at 55. My nice modest home is paid for. I'm so glad with all that's going on that I'm done. Inflation destroyed the middle class. I see so many people in there 30s still living at home. I wonder what's next?
Nice to see you are together, and without face muzzles.
I adore the both of you, and hats off with respect!
#BlessedBeThee🦋
You "nailed it" with your excellent analysis! And now that you've explained the thinking and motivation of the Left so well, we can both understand them and respond to them better. Thank you!
I wish I could articulate like him so difficult to debate with those he describes.
Paul summed it up brilliantly when he said that he who will not work should not eat.
John Williams, Exactly. Following that rule we would have never allowed SLAVERY. Everyone would have lived by the sweat of their own brow.
Thank you for raising this point.
That's what the Bible says man
@justmyopinion9883 That is why Christians ended slavery in the West and then forced the rest of the world to follow suit!
Brilliant man...never tire of hearing his views. He always hits the nail on the head. Love his
term, "Creatures of Versailles", very powerful as well as accurate.
Your last two sentences where perfect. Thank you
How right this. Sheer hypocrisy and ignorance in that they only accept one catastrophic left wing point of view on these matters which must be rectified by everyone else.
“ Government is the great fiction through which everyone endeavors to live at the expense of everyone else” Frederick Bastiat
How correct you are. They want no middle class
The most articulate human on the planet
When Extinction Rebellion kicked off, an acquaintance on Facebook (a friend of my brother's) posted on Facebook that he supported them and hoped they'd become a major political force. A few days later, he posted pictures from his safari holiday in Africa. When I pulled him up about his hypocrisy, he argued that he'd booked his holiday through a special environmental holiday company that planted trees as carbon offsetting. So, basically, he deluded himself to justify him doing what he ruddy well liked, while demanding that poorer people stop going to benidorm for a fortnight.
The 'travel agency' an arm of WE charity set up by brothers.. Involving government ' charity partnership' involving youth 'to do good'.. Raise funds, 'volunteer' in hypocritical gap year humanitarian work.!
Where did all that money go..?
Planting trees - who did he pay to do it, maintain & nuture it to 'fruition'. Was it close to water? Where in uk/europe or africa. They make me sick.
Travelyst? Earning carbon credits? We pay to tracked for them to gather data... Which is valuable data to be sold to Industry players.
Information IS necessary to plan but who determines who gets paid what for that commodity? Only the elites? The seller of the software? Yet they insist they are uplifting /speaking for the voiceless.
4:57 You have too much air con so I'm going to take that away from you. What they don't say is I'll give it to the person who doesn't have it. They don't want to raise anyone's standards, just lower everyones standards (except their own).
Great information thanks you 👍
He’s so right!!!!!
The Marie Antoinette in peasant garb is a very apt comparison
Good stuff
They will learn their lesson when it's all taken from them...
I have long believed that ideas coming out of left are the result if passing the bong.
Those who are screaming the loudest
about "exploitation" are the very
perpetrators of it right now.
Take Martha's Vineyard, just as
one poignant example!😉
Marxist (or similar) government has to wield great power over almost all aspects of an individual's life, because that's the only possible way to even come close to achieving "equality of outcome" (which, I agree with here, isn't really what these elites care about). That, in a nutshell, is why no one should desire that type of government, because among many other problems, it means almost complete loss of personal autonomy and the motivation to strive to be one's best. (If you know you won't be allowed to benefit from trying as hard as you can, why try hard?)
Equality is a myth
My Progressive family members have always said, "You're willing to work, therefore YOU should share." HUH? Who wouldn't want to sit on the beach, drink beer, play a guitar and have others provide for their rent, electicity, food, transportation, etc.
They need to be reunited with their humanity, perhaps through reminder of their mortality.
It's not just the left.
Look at Slowmo
Please explain
Nailed it
So it's always "The Left"? Of course "The Right" would never do that to us?!? The key word here is "Wealthy"...
The great thing about a democracy is that the majority of voters get exactly what they deserve.
The tragic thing about the "united" states is that it is impossible for normal Americans to have good government
“ normal American “? To funny, but really is there such a person?
Most people aren’t paying any attention.
Yeah, uh, BS. Where'd you ever come up with such a thing, let alone actually come to believe it? And why are so many in agreement? Because they FOLLOW, they don't think for themselves.
We are NOT a "Democracy", for starters. We are a Constitutional Republic. The Constitution IS our "Government". NOT those in DC. They are OUR representatives. NOT our masters. WE ARE THEIRS. PERIOD. Although at the moment, the "powers that be" have people believing they are
There's no such thing as a "normal" American. We are too diverse.. The "tragic" thing, is that we've allowed them to DIVIDE US.
We've had MANY good, "Governments". Some FOUNDED & CREATED This very nation. "We the People" have become APATHETIC, and allowed our power to be transferred to them. WE MUST TAKE IT BACK.
The "Government" never changes. It was written on paper, as POWERFUL as Granite is strong, IF we USE IT. If we do not, then it is rice paper in a raging fire.
Or maybe a better analogy, wet toilet paper.
@@robertholland7558 "...is there really such?" Emphatically yes. Problem is, the normal person is working very hard to put food on the table and a roof over their family's heads.
@@imkindofabigdeal4308 normal and American are two mutual exclusive things. And where does this “ person” terminology come from? There might be an American person, but they can’t be considered “ normal”.
VDH is a national treasure.
Thank you. and that is why I say the Lord God is better to me than He is to anybody.
Knowing the Lord gives us strength and peace during these times.
How did this only get 2,500 likes?
Professor, you are making entirely too much sense.
The cult of the supreme being _ Robespierre
affluence and leisure
Soulfood ❤
Potatohead and Kameltoe ride around in limos that only get 5 miles per gallon.
"Boutique issues" ...
All Animals are Equal
Some Animals are More Equal than Others
Whoa, hold on buddy. Agnostics and Atheists are two different things.
Dr Hanson you used the word privileged in passing when talking about the wealthy and maybe consciously or unconciousle you hit on the real idea of privilege and that is "wealthy privilege" white people don't have privilege but the wealthy do
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A shining light in todays gloom!
Hansen is very wise.
Agree with Mr Hanson totally. Biden - Harris voters - thank you!! - for the problems you have caused.
They love their language games in order to hide agendas: unhoused vs homeless is my favorite one 🤣
How apt is the Marie Antoinette analogy - aristocrats dressing as peasants to relieve their boredom and satiety.
So what’s the answer
Too many people on the planet. The liberals need to go first in riding Carousel. Renew, renew!
We know what happened to the creatures of Versailles
When you lack a conscience you don't care. It's all about number one. Focus on number one
How can the World and in particular, Humanity evolve, without differences of outcome?
How can optimization work, without goal criteria?
"Creatures of Versailles" (5:30 of the video). Incisive. Appropriate.
Exactly
Socrates
Hypocrisy doesn't exist and it never has. It is and always has been hierarchy. Hierarchy is the asymmetric distribution of power aka one side gets to do something the other doesn't. It can be based in meritocracy which for many seems like a reasonable way to distribute power or it can be based on heredity or loyalty which is just a different form but is often frowned upon based on the "enlightenment" and the modern world (It wasn't so much in the ancient world but the scribes of the modern world have conditioned modern people that this is something to frown upon even though it has always existed and has just become more concealed over time). The reality is that those who have power, whether its culturally, institutionally, martially, etc will exercise said power how they see fit aka do what they want while those out of power will suffer what they must. Those out of power rationalize this helplessness by resorting to saying things like I just want to grill and be left alone which will never happen because the point of power is to exercise it over others.
Back to the drawing board for the geyser who invented humans.
You’re missing one little detail. The ‘helpless’ as you call them, FAR outnumber those holding this ‘power’ and many times throughout history, the ‘helpless’ suddenly turn and crush the ‘powerful’. Things keep on in this direction and we might be able to witness this. Elitist leftists are incredibly hypocritical and some security detail of their political representatives will not be able to withstand infuriated crowds
@@ericeverett2353 The story you are told in school is not accurate to how things actually play out in real life. The "revolutions" were not some mass discontent that rose up out of nowhere. From the French Revolution to every revolution that followed, there was a counter-elite who riled up the masses to usurp power from the existing elite. That's the reality behind popular uprisings. But it makes for a better mythology to think the population rises up together. That's not reality. The reality is that "the people" are not organized. It's only an ambitious counter elite who is organized and discipline enough to use the masses as the battering ram to gain power for themselves. That's how reality really works and that's also why most people are misinformed from their "public education"
@@doh917 Not a stone's throw away from our liberal left globalist elites' treatment of the working class as their useful idiots?
@@abazely2743 Read On Power by Betrand DeJouvenal. It is high low vs the middle. It is the formation of power dynamics within all societies repeated over time. The "intelligentsia" or the brain of a society do not have the martial prowess to maintain their power so they must convince the populace to support their ambitions. This can be through promises of honor, riches, or whatever incentive structure that will be effective at the time. The ideal is to have the interests of the aristocracy aligned with the rest of the people but it always inevitably devolves into self interest and corruption at the top and the construction of barriers to withstand any pressures from aspiring lower classes.
Remember when Thanos was the bad guy in the Avengers saga because he wanted to solve the universe's problems by killing 50% of everything? Turns out, that was merely to plant the seed for that being a viable strategy to manage our existing human society.
I wish Victor would say middle income, because class has a whole bunch of other characteristics attached to it. 😎
I like these two (am a subscriber to John's channel) and agree with many of their points on conservatism. They lose me though when they climb into the pulpit. And in this clip, implying that a person who doesn't believe in any god(s) is incapable of being a good human being.
On another point made in this talk I am reminded of a scene in the Godfather Part two when Michael says to the Senator, "We're all part of the same hypocrisy, senator."
Let us begin with the Left stop having children ? 😂
boutique issues
If you are not ready and willing to fight for the life of this nation, as well as the circumstances and the lives of family and friends, then you do not deserve either life nor freedom. Study history and know fully that I am truthing..
The way you are yourself...
Is how you do ti others.
So how the top is...
They accuse others.
Paranoia.
If you use tricks and lies to get up high..
You get paranoia others will do the same
Like the modern day bourgoise.. Lost sight of their balance and reasoning.. and humility
And turned into human garbage
agnostics and atheists
To be clear, everyone is seeking power, especially the religious. The last century showed us. The last millennium showed us.
Wrong, Christian religion lost it's power centuries ago.
In recent years there is a growing number of historians realizing the importance religion has played in society. Your post represents the old fashion understanding of religion. The new trend, caused by a deeper understanding of history, which Hanson is part of, now realizes religion is fundamental to our society, and without it we wouldn't be here.
Especially the religious? You mean the religion of the new green deal?
That's not the way Jesus said it should be:
*Let the greatest among you be the servant of all. For whoever makes himself great shall be humbled and whoever humbles himself shall be made great.*
It's not hypocrisy it's higher archy
It effects your karma
When God seems quiet, you better be acting right.
God is more visible than ever baby, so is the Devil, there will be a revival soon
Nature of Versai ~. “What was the Short Term Significance of the Treaty of Versailles?
Nature: One of the most famous peace treaties at the end of World War 1, to make peace between the five nations: France, Germany, Britain, Austria-Hungary and America. It consisted of a number of clauses, including one making Germany take the blame for the start of the war, a.k.a the War Guilt Clause.
Origin: Signed in June 1919 by the Allied and Associated Powers i.e. Germany, France etc. Written in the Place of Versailles, hence the name.
Purpose: To create peace after world war 1 - restrictions of Germany's land, military, and suing them lots of money. Many believe that it was one of the key reasons for world war 2 i.e. Germany breaking the chains of Versailles.
The Treaty of Versailles is a huge document, with plenty of clauses and restrictions, mainly aimed at Germany, getting them to take the blame for the first world war - fair or not fair? It was written in the Palace of Versailles by the giants of the world at the time…”. . .
Victor is a plethora of important historical facts to be remembered.
#WisdomMatters
Maybe, but that is not the Versailles VDH is talking about. He is referring to Marie Antionette's 'let them eat cake' period just before the French revolution.
He says 'creatures at Versailles', meaning they're so posh and sheltered as to be totally out of touch with the common man.
"Some truth but not the truth"...straight from the enemy of our souls (the Bible says), and in terms of where one might look for an equitable answer (also Biblical) there is One who actually claimed to be the Truth
Calling a Democrat a hypocrite is like calling a New York sewer 🐀 rat a sewer 🐀 rat. They know what they are but just don't care.
The Woke Foke are mostly good for a laugh or two.
LOVE WAR.
FIRST!
Always love listening to you.. but I'm not sure you are aware of the transhumanist issues that are evolving.. please check into it and let us know what you think
Pure drivel.