Thinking of the fog of war as applying not just to kinetic wars but to socio-cultural ones as well, will be necessary to understand what Victor Davis Hanson is saying in his latest article.
In fact, Victor Hanson seems to think that America
(interchangeable with the world) is currently in the middle of a socio-cultural
war he hopes will end with the midterms election later this year. This is when
the rightwing Republicans are expected to defeat the leftwing Democrats
according to him, thus bring normalcy back to America, which is an independent
country, but as pointed out a moment ago, is also interchangeable with the
world according to some. If you don’t understand this, blame it on the fog.
You’ll get a better sense of all this anyway when you
read the article that Hanson wrote under the title: “Biden’s ‘new world order’
and the radical left’s reset,” and the subtitle: “But it won’t be the one
president and the Davos set are expecting.” It was published on March 24, 2022
in The Washington Times.
If you are so sensitive as to detect the trends promulgated
by the current schools of thought, you’ll be surprised by the first two
paragraphs of the article. It is that the first speaks of Klaus Schwab and
global elites, which is a reference to the Capitalist one-percenters. The
second paragraph, on the other hand, speaks of surrendering to international
experts who will enlighten us on woke issues, which is a reference to the Socialist
bunch. To explain how these two crowds get talked about in the same breath,
Victor Hanson proceeded with the discussion in the following manner.
He used much of the article’s space to mock the extremely
wealthy who live the opulent life while preaching frugality to the rest of us.
He makes the point that in the process of transiting society from its current
state to the one advocated by the elites, the middle class will be destroyed.
He even seems to suggest that if the Davos set has it its way, it will be
goodbye to the Republican slogan of a century ago: “a chicken in every pot,” and
goodbye to owning a home, to live in rented apartments instead. Lucky are those
who will have learned early on to cook tasty cabbage meals for breakfast, lunch
and dinner because by then, the quarter pounder will be the thing that legends
are made of. It will be something that future generations will see only in the old
movies.
But it will not always be fun and games for the elites
either, says Victor Hanson, especially if they buy into the modern monetary
theory that would have the printing presses of the central banks worldwide
print money like there is no tomorrow. He warns that this habit will take us
from the current 10% yearly inflation to a runaway hyperinflation that will
trigger a recession or stagflation, maybe even a global depression.
What we are supposed to infer from this, is that based on
the legends of the past — those that describe what happened during similar moments — it will
be the caviar eaters, not the cabbage eaters, who will jump from the windows of
their high rises to their ultimate demise known as death by suicide.
To avoid this heartbreak from materializing, says Victor
Hanson, we need to return to the good old days when things used to work the way
they were supposed to. The following is a condensed version of the measures he
believes will be taken when the Republicans will win the next midterms
election, and start fixing what has gone wrong in America … and by implication
what has gone wrong throughout the world. Here are the measures that Hanson has
suggested:
“Closed borders with only legal
immigration. Tough police enforcement and deterrent sentencing. Integration and
the primacy of individual character rather than fixations on the color of our
skin. Tuning out of the mediocre media. A greater increased production of oil
and natural gas to transition slowly to a wider variety of energy. Strong
national defense, and deterrent foreign policies”.
Victor Hanson ends his article with the
above paragraph without explaining how these measures alone will cause the cabbage
in every pot to be replaced with chicken quarters, and with beef quarter-pounders
on every backyard hibachi. And so, we are left to presume that this will happen
because the middle class will ditch the apartments and replace them with
privately owned houses, outfitted with a hibachi barbecue set in every backyard.
Moreover, because Hanson neglected to
mention how all of this will come about, we get the opportunity to make the
suggestions ourselves on how to fix the problems plaguing the world today:
So, how about doing more than mock the super rich. We could,
for example, team up with those that have already recognized that the financial
system is so badly structured, it allows some individuals to accumulate
fabulous wealth at the expense of the many. We explain to the other super rich
that the system must be restructured but that, for the project to succeed, they
must cooperate with the commission that will gather the information and do the restructuring.
To convince these people of the validity of our idea, we
explain to them that beside the current situation being unfair, it creates
inefficiencies in the economy by the fact that it reduces the number of heads who
could participate in making the economy grow.
We’ll tell them this happens because many good men and
women have great ideas they would love to take the chance to realize but cannot
do so because they lack the seed money to start the venture, and sustain the
family while they go slogging against tremendous odds during the first two or
three years of the undertaking.
That’s what starters must do to show they have the
potential for success, before they can approach the deep-pocket investors who might
come onboard for the voyage ahead.