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AMERICAN PARALYSIS AND DECLINE
Victor Davis Hanson | 3-3-2024

 “WE CAN BEAR NEITHER OUR DISEASES NOR THEIR REMEDIES."

So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long
decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended
the Roman Republic.

Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy
lamented that the Romans knew they had become corrupt and lawless.

But the very contemplation of the hard medicine needed for restoration
-- and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy -- made it
impossible to save the patient.

AMERICA IS NEARING SUCH AN IMPASSE.

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We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over
7 million illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor
legality.

The recent murder of a Georgia female jogger by an illegal alien and
the savage beating of New York policemen by similar others hardly
merit media attention.

Everyone knows that neither new appropriations nor new laws are needed
to secure the border as it was in 2020.

Instead, we could just stop suicidal catch-and-release, deport
lawbreakers, privilege the legal over the illegal immigrant, demand
would-be refugees apply for asylum first in their native countries,
finish the border wall, and pressure Mexico to stop undermining the
territorial integrity of its northern neighbor.

But then we shrug, "We can't do that" -- paralyzed in fear of being
smeared as "xenophobic," "nativist," or "racist."

So this generation apparently feels that it can endure the collateral
damage of daily assaults on American citizens, the near bankruptcy of
our cities, and 100,000 fentanyl deaths per year -- but certainly not
the idea that it is somehow not politically correct or compassionate.

The same is true of the $35 trillion debt, now costing more than $1
trillion a year in interest payments -- and growing. We all know it is
unsustainable. Americans understand it will eventually lead either to
destructive hyperinflation, suicidal renunciation of federal debt, or
confiscation of private savings.

Yet we ignore the reckless spending and keep borrowing well over $1
trillion a year. Apparently, our generation prefers being praised as
"virtuous" and "caring." So it leaves the next generation to be
smeared as "cruel" and "unfair" when it is forced to cut federal
entitlements and bloated government or face civilizational collapse.

The crime epidemic is also similar. Everyone accepts that no society
can long endure quasi-legalized shoplifting or green-lighting
smash-and-grabbers and carjackers to be released without bail.

But we assume that such a civilizational implosion will never reach
our own sanctuary neighborhoods or safe places of work -- at least not
yet.

We also know that restoring deterrence by arresting, convicting, and
jailing repeat felons will return safety to our streets.

But again, we fear even more that advocating "law and order" will earn
slanders like "racist" or "reactionary."

Ditto the homeless. In an age of self-congratulation and
hyper-environmentalism, we know that a million homeless defecating,
urinating, injecting, and assaulting on our downtown sidewalks and
storefronts is medieval.

We know that it is illegal to camp out on the street and publicly
harass citizens or relieve oneself in public.

And we know the cure lies in building and staffing more mental
institutions and providing areas far from public spaces where the
homeless can find shelter, sanitation, and medical care.

But the very idea of removing anyone from his accustomed sidewalk
spot, or the notion of the use of force to transport the mentally ill
to proper and humane facilities, terrifies us.

So we walk around, step over, and ignore those on the street.

Is the assumption that the odds of being assaulted or sickened
acceptable? Or do we just not wish to learn where the flotsam, jetsam,
and human offal of the street end up?

Most accept that had former President Donald Trump just not run for
president in 2024 or was a man of the left, he would not now be facing
four different felony court cases.

Most accept that three of the four prosecutors have either in advance
promised to get Trump or have proved grossly unethical.

Most know it is wrong to try to remove a leading presidential
candidate from state ballots.

Yet many shrug that this new weaponization of America's legal system
is the flamboyant Trump's own problem, not their own. So they ignore
the third worldization of our political system, which they quietly
acknowledge is otherwise leading us to a Venezuela-like mess.

The paralysis of American society extends to our foreign policy as
well. We deplore the terrorism of Iran and its thuggish surrogates.
But we fear more the nasty, costly business of stopping its
aggression.

Societies do not always collapse from a lack of wealth, invasion, or
natural catastrophes.

Most often, they know what is destroying them. But they are so
paralyzed by their fear that the road to salvation becomes too painful
to even contemplate.

So they implode gradually, then suddenly.

 

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