The De-Civilization of America

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, Hillsdale College, where he teaches each fall semester courses in military history and classical culture. Victor discusses current political and social events and ideas, and current and past cultural trends.

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From the comments to the video:

Worse than politicians and judges not enforcing laws and jailing criminals is that anyone who attempts to fight crime and criminality on their own find the full force of the law brought down upon them. It is not just a failed experiment in criminal leniency it is a full throated effort to destroy the average man in America. Somehow the very law enforcement resources that are not available to arrest criminals are available in droves to arrest and prosecute a person who defends themselves against criminals.

My 71 year old mother is a staunch Democrat who only watches mainstream news via cable tv. She is never informed about any of the consequences of failed policy. The TV scares her with reporting on crime, but never discusses the pros and cons of policy. To her, the Democrats are the party that takes care of everyone and has empathy. It boggles my mind how everything can be falling apart and there is no connection made between policy and results.

The biggest fear and the biggest frustration of those of us living in the destination cities where the California/Oregon/Washington refugees go to is that, knowing that they left because their home cities are utter disasters, they continue to vote for the same policies and the same types of politicians that caused these disasters in the first place.