Today's Required Reading: Victor Davis Hansen's Take on the "Great Reset"

Victor Davis Hansen is one of the great documentarians of modern society in our time. A native of Southern California, he has chronicled the collapse of civil society in that state, brought about by the policies of the Democrat Party, more ably than any other writer.

Writing at Townhall today, Mr. Hansen has published his own take on the status of the globalists’ “Great Reset” strategy to bring all free societies under the domination of a global fascist/socialist governance structure. Hansen echoes many of the themes I’ve written about here in recent months, but does so in a more succinct and effective way, I think.

It’s a pretty quick read, and well worth the investment of time.

Here’s an excerpt:

In normal times progressives worry that they do not have public support for their policies. Only in crises do they feel that the political Left and media can merge to use apocalyptic times to ram through usually unpopular approaches to foreign and domestic problems.

We saw that last year: fleeing from Afghanistan, the embrace of critical race theory, trying to end the filibuster, pack the court, junk the Electoral College, and nationalize voting laws.

These "new orders" and "resets" always entail far bigger government and more unelected, powerful bureaucracies. Elites assume that their radical changes in energy use, media reporting, voting, sovereignty, and racial and ethnic quotas will never quite apply to themselves, the architects of such top-down changes.

So we common folk must quit fossil fuels, but not those who need to use corporate jets. Walls will not mar our borders but will protect the homes of Nancy Pelosi, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates.

Hunter Biden's lost laptop will be declared, by fiat, not news. In contrast, the fake Alfa Bank "collusion" narrative will be national headline news for weeks.

Middle-class lifestyles will be curbed as we are instructed to strive for sustainability and transition to apartment living and mass transit. But the Obamas will still keep their three mansions, and Silicon Valley futurists will insist on exemptions for their yachts.

In truth, we are about to see a radical reset - of the current reset. It will be a different sort of transformation than the elites are expecting and one that they should greatly fear.

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Go read the rest. You’ll be glad you did. I know I am.

That is all.