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Victor Davis Hanson | The Democrats and US cultural change

Peter Athanasius
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Published on 15 Nov 2020 / In News and Politics

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Peter Athanasius
Peter Athanasius 3 years ago  

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00:00 i'm sitting in the most liberal
00:02 left-wing state in the united states
00:05 if you want to go buy a firearm today
00:08 you're going to have to wait
00:09 nine months not because the state is
00:12 making it difficult to buy
00:14 is because very liberal people
00:16 supposedly
00:17 have rushed to the gun stores and fright
00:19 at what they see with the defunding
00:21 and they've ordered if you want to go by
00:25 nine millimeter 32 caliber 30 you cannot
00:28 buy it
00:29 it doesn't exist that people have
00:31 decided that
00:32 the second amendment is a good thing if
00:35 you look at the nba's
00:38 ratings it's at a record low nobody's
00:40 watching nobody even knew there was a
00:42 world series they've tuned out of it if
00:45 you look at hollywood movies
00:47 they have to rely on chinese markets as
00:49 does the nba there's no
00:51 people that just said you know i'm
00:53 living in a monastery of the mind
00:55 uh i'm going to be armed i'm going to
00:58 speak my mind
00:59 but i'm not going to participate in this
01:03 socialist dominated culture i'm not
01:06 going to watch the nba i'm not going to
01:08 a movie
01:09 uh i'm not going to watch network news
01:13 and so all of these institutions that
01:15 had a monopoly
01:16 of the cultural political economic and
01:18 social landscape of the united states
01:20 are very worried because they got
01:22 their wish but they're sort of like the
01:25 midas touch
01:27 they thought that it would be wonderful
01:28 to turn everything to gold and
01:31 it turned out to be dross in other words
01:34 you can't eat gold
01:35 and everything they turn and touch
01:39 it turns to dross and they know that now
01:41 and they're in a dilemma
01:42 but don't ever underestimate them
01:45 because cultural
01:47 life and public opinion is often
01:50 massaged by what we see on television
01:52 what we read in the newspapers what we
01:54 hear
01:54 on the radio what we see on the internet
01:57 how we communicate
01:59 those are very powerful tools in their
02:01 toolbox
02:03 but for now they they got rid of
02:07 donald trump who as i think last time i
02:09 said is kind of a tragic hero he's a
02:11 john
02:12 right out of a john ford western maybe
02:14 the searchers of some of your viewers
02:16 watched it
02:17 with john wayne or high noon with gary
02:20 cooper or maybe
02:22 the magnificent seven with steve mcqueen
02:24 where we call in one of these guys who
02:26 has some aspects that we find
02:29 i don't know bothersome at best and
02:31 maybe uncouth at worst and we say to
02:33 them
02:34 we we don't have the resources we don't
02:36 know how to fight these cattle barons or
02:37 the ban deal
02:38 what do we do he said i'll take care of
02:40 it
02:41 and he takes care of it and the more the
02:43 better way
02:45 the better he does the happier we are
02:48 and the more relieved that
02:50 he's going to write off in the sunset so
02:52 in that famous john
02:54 ford scene and the searchers when he
02:56 brings back natalie wood
02:58 but he's been so tough and foul-mouthed
03:02 about the process he's
03:04 in which he operated he hands he hands
03:07 her to
03:08 the family they celebrate and then he
03:10 turns around and walks out that door and
03:12 you see the
03:13 shadow walk and nobody says thank you
03:15 ethan edwards
03:16 just like gary cooper throws down the uh
03:19 the badge and nobody says
03:21 thank you marshall kane you you got rid
03:24 of all of our problems thank you
03:26 and that's kind of where we are you want
03:28 judges he gave you judges you want
03:30 deregulation he gave you deregulation
03:32 you want record low
03:34 minority unemployment he gave you that
03:36 you want record high republican
03:37 participation by more
03:39 minorities he gave that you want a new
03:41 middle east he gave you that
03:42 you want to defang iran he's doing that
03:44 you want to confront china he did it
03:47 you want to change the tax code and
03:51 and favor investment he did it but he
03:54 did it in such a fashion
03:56 that now that it's happened a lot of the
03:58 people
03:59 on the independent did not come out and
04:02 support him and they think you know what
04:05 it's time for him to go but there's
04:08 always a sequel you never know
04:11 people may say it's getting bad again
04:13 where did that gunslinger go
04:14 what town is the end somebody come and
04:16 get him back for another turn
04:18 that's an interesting point i'll come
04:20 back to that in a moment but but before
04:22 we do
04:23 see as i said these
04:26 uh election outcomes actually mean
04:30 both political parties in america
04:34 face a massive reset we've talked a bit
04:35 about the democrats
04:37 we'll come to the republicans in a
04:38 moment but there's another aspect that
04:40 that affects both of them i mean the
04:44 ultimate charge of uh against uh anybody
04:47 you disagree with now in western culture
04:49 is to call them a racist
04:51 now of course trump was seen as a very
04:53 embodiment of racism a white
04:55 male supremist couldn't be worse
04:59 but that doesn't seem to be the way that
05:02 many
05:02 colored people in america saw him at all
05:05 i would have thought this blows
05:06 an enormous hole in the intellectual
05:08 case uh
05:10 for a lot of the nonsense that's passed
05:13 uh
05:13 for the race debate right across the
05:15 western world in recent times
05:17 as just looking at this um i understand
05:20 he won
05:21 probably the highest share of
05:24 non-white voters of any republican
05:25 presidential campaign
05:27 candidate since 1960 um 26 percent of
05:30 the people who voted for him
05:32 uh at this election were not white in
05:34 florida about
05:35 half the latinos voted for trump
05:38 and the nation at large 18 of black men
05:41 voted for trump and the female black
05:44 vote for
05:45 trump was also up so
05:48 what do the democrats do with this
05:51 repudiation
05:53 of the um the line that they've
05:56 not you know been very willing to run
05:59 against him
06:00 uh well there's democrats and then
06:03 there's democrats aren't there so
06:04 if you're part of the democratic
06:06 intelligentsia
06:08 i can tell you in the last 48 hours they
06:11 have a canned exodus jesus and it runs
06:13 something like this
06:15 we have to ferret out the naive and the
06:18 traitorous in our midst
06:20 because they bought into this fable
06:23 of white supremacy and they want to be
06:25 white they want to be middle class they
06:27 want to be heterosexual they want to be
06:29 familial and donald trump
06:32 fooled them and so that's what some of
06:34 them but then
06:35 we had a representative who was almost
06:38 beat
06:39 and she's beaten and she said i don't
06:42 want to hear the word socialism again
06:43 i don't want to hear aoc again i just
06:46 want to go back to what we
06:48 used to be which was on a you know party
06:51 of the middle class and
06:52 social net and all what the democratic
06:55 party
06:56 what they think fdr was and so
07:00 those voices of reason and sanity i
07:03 think
07:04 are in the minority and the nancy
07:07 pelosi's and the chuck schumer's
07:09 who have gone over to the hard left
07:12 nothing is going to disabuse him of that
07:15 until
07:16 these numbers are such that
07:19 they lose and why you brought that up is
07:22 because
07:23 we're a country about 67 percent white
07:26 now
07:27 and the democratic mantra had been
07:31 anybody who is not white will be
07:34 dependent on big government to a greater
07:36 degree and therefore on us
07:38 so we want unlimited and even indeed
07:41 illegal immigration because we flip
07:44 california
07:45 it's now never going to vote in our
07:47 electoral system
07:48 republican and we flip nevada we have
07:51 flipped
07:52 new mexico we have flipped colorado
07:56 we're just about to flip and we probably
07:58 did arizona we only got one big state
08:01 left and if we flip texas they can never
08:04 win again
08:05 but then the republicans have discovered
08:08 that
08:09 well maybe we can re-flip them with the
08:11 people who are you supposedly
08:13 going to flip us and so if you're a
08:15 county down on the border and you're a
08:17 mexican community
08:20 and it's illegal what happens it means
08:22 that
08:24 somebody comes in from oaxaca state into
08:26 your community
08:28 with tattoos and he starts calling all
08:31 of your children who are there
08:32 two generations gringos because they
08:34 don't speak good spanish
08:36 or you go to across the border into
08:38 mexico and somebody's squatting on your
08:40 home and saying get out
08:42 or your school district where i live
08:45 95 mexican american all of a sudden
08:48 you work so hard to get advanced
08:50 placement courses so your mexican
08:52 american children can be competitive
08:55 and go to places like pepperdine or
08:58 stanford or uc berkeley and guess what
09:01 you have to drop them because
09:03 you're flooded in with people who don't
09:05 speak very good spanish
09:06 they speak mix of a mix of tech a baja
09:09 that's an indigenous language so
09:11 that group is starting to wake up and
09:14 say
09:15 i don't like these wealthy white
09:17 liberals and these various
09:19 uh elite minorities because they're
09:21 always exempt
09:22 from the consequences of their own
09:24 ideology and it's just starting now and
09:25 that's why they're so
09:26 scared of this because if donald trump
09:28 can do it
09:29 who doesn't mince words they're afraid
09:32 somebody even more effective a
09:33 communicator might be able
09:35 to be even more effective and so when
09:38 you get those numbers
09:39 up to it's disputed was it 15 or 20
09:44 percent of blacks was it
09:45 28 excuse me 30 to almost 40 percent of
09:49 hispanics but
09:50 you go another three points another four
09:52 points
09:53 and you hit a calculus that the
09:57 democrats can never win because they
09:58 have so
09:59 alienated the white working class that
10:01 white males are voting about 65
10:04 percent anti-democratic and women of
10:07 about 54 percent
10:09 and they have so turned off the white
10:11 middle classes that you don't need
10:13 50 percent black and browns and asian
10:16 you just need to get up to the 40s and
10:18 they're done
10:19 and so that's where we are they're
10:22 frightened
10:23 and the irony of it is that they
10:26 invested
10:26 so much money and rhetoric and time
10:30 into donald trump the racist donald
10:33 trump
10:33 as charlottesville donald trump who said
10:36 that haiti was a country
10:38 that they didn't realize that most
10:40 people tuned that out and they said i
10:42 got a job
10:43 i'm mexican-american so for the first
10:45 time in my life i'm hammering up on this
10:48 roof or i'm out picking peaches or i'm
10:51 plumbing on a new construction site and
10:54 somebody comes over to me and says
10:56 you're making 18 an hour but i can pay
10:59 you 20.
11:00 another guy comes by and said i'll pay
11:01 you 21. we're short labor we can't get
11:03 cheap labor from across the border
11:05 anymore
11:06 trump shut down the illegal aliens and
11:09 we need your labor and the attitude of
11:12 the worker if you talk to him
11:14 is i have dignity the first time in my
11:16 life the employer is begging for me i'm
11:18 not begging for him and then trump did
11:19 that
11:20 that reversal of mindset and it started
11:22 to show up
11:23 for the first time in my lifetime in the
11:25 polls
11:26 so that's what scares the left that
11:28 somebody who was a droid as he would
11:30 could
11:31 could develop that further thank you for
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no0negun
no0negun 3 years ago

Great points in this video

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no0negun
no0negun 3 years ago

There ought to be a law that if you vote against the Second Amendment or support a politician who infringes upon it, you can’t own a firearm.

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