The Left/Dems are remaking America. Do you like the results?

The Remaking of America
  By Victor Davis Hanson, August 7, 2023
  (edited)

We are in the midst of one of the most radical revolutions in American history. It is as dangerous as the turbulent years of the 1850s and 1860s or the 1930s. Every aspect of American life and culture is under assault, including the very processes by which we govern ourselves, and the manner in which we live.

The Revolution began under the Obama administration that sought to divide Americans into oppressed and oppressors, and then substitute race for class victimization. It was empowered by the bicoastal wealth accrued from globalization, and honed during the COVID lockdown, quarantine-fed economic downturn, and the George Floyd riots and their aftermath.

It was boosted by fanatic Democrat opposition to the presidency of Donald Trump.  The result is an America that is unrecognizable from what it was just ten years ago.

Here are 10 radical changes that the Left has forced on the nation.

Free expression. In large parts of American society—particularly corporations, media, government, public schools and universities—it's now dangerous to speak freely. If you say “whiteness” doesn't cause all the woes of “marginalized peoples” you'll be either ostracized, reprimanded, or even fired.

Suggest to a class that "Global Warming" may be a natural phenomenon, and that the regime's so-called "remedies" won't help, and your career and livelihood are endangered.

In 2020 if you said Covid lockdowns would do more harm than the virus, your career was through.  Saying there are two biological sexes is a career-ending move.

The Left is seeking to eliminate free speech by claiming any speech it doesn't like is “hate speech.”  And instantly the state and the universities issue lists of terms you're not allowed to say.

The Weaponization of the Law

In the last decade the Left has viewed the Department of "Justice" as an arm of the Democrat party, using its unlimited power to hurt enemies and help friends.  The Attorney General of the U.S. is said to be the nation's top "law enforcement" officer, yet Obama's attorney-general Eric Holder--far from upholding the law--became the first Attorney General to be held in contempt for ignoring a congressional subpoena.

Never before have the Department of Justice and Democrat state and local prosecutors indicted the likely nominee of one of the two major parties.  But Donald Trump is currently charged with nearly 100 felonies by at least two prosecutors. He likely eventually will be hit with more, from four prosecutors, every one of whom has a long record of either leftwing associations or Democratic service.

One count that Donald Trump is not charged with is taking bribes from foreign powers while in office.  Biden and his family raked in millions from foreign governments by selling access during his prior Vice Presidency.  Emails on his son's laptop show Hunter complaining to his daughter that Joe demanded half of his grifting income.

The last four FBI Directors have either admitted they lied under oath, or preposterously under oath claimed ignorance or amnesia about events directly under their control. Or they simply stonewalled subpoenas and testimonies about alleged FBI crimes.

The former CIA Director admitted to lying twice under oath. The FBI pressured social media corporations to delete user posts the regime didn't like.  It conspired with Democratic operatives to create the utter hoax that Trump had "colluded with Russia" to win in 2016.

Three weeks before the 2020 election, the FBI pressured social media to debunk and conceal the story about Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, though they knew it was accurate.

At the request of a Joe Biden campaign official (and now Secretary of State) and a former interim CIA director, 50 former intelligence officials signed a letter--hugely publicized by the Media--claiming the story about Hunter's laptop was "Russian disinformation," even though the FBI knew it was authentic.

The Attack on the Supreme Court.

After three Court decisions the Dems hated, the Left has now called for packing the Court with six leftists. Leftist law professors in the Ivy League, in insurrectionary style, have urged the biden regime to simply ignore Court rulings it doesn't like.

The Senate minority leader led a throng to the doors of the court, threatening justices by name: “You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Federal law prohibits protests in front of judges' homes.  Yet mobs of leftists massed at the homes of Supreme Court justices trying to intimidate them into voting the way the Left wanted.  The Department of Justice didn't charge even one of the protesters.  Rule of law?

For the first time in our history, nearly all media outlets have fused with one political party. They believe the new role of the media is to advance so-called "progressive" causes and defame conservative opponents.

The Destruction of Common Law. By defunding the police in major cities, and by showering leftwing district attorney candidates with millions of dollars in campaign funding, the Left systematically eroded the law as we know it in our major cities.

As a result, downtowns are after-dark, no-go zones, as once great metropolises resemble veritable combat theaters. Cities are becoming depopulated as consumers and businesses no longer find it safe to conduct commerce. Criminals and homeless now routinely break the law with impunity.  Violence and open use of illegal drugs are no longer even charged.

The Left has redefined violent crime to such an extent that shoplifting under $1000 or so is no longer charged.  Flash mobs that take over streets and swarm to loot stores are rarely  arrested. Security officers who apprehend thieves or intervene to stop violence are more likely to be prosecuted than criminals themselves.

The biden regime has utterly ignored valid U.S. immigration law.  Millions of illegal entrants have flooded into the U.S, and now demand that taxpayers give them housing and cash.

In sum, in blue states and at the federal level, leftwing prosecutors and justices decide to ignore the law at their whim, based on race and party affiliation. The result is the veritable destruction of law and order as we once knew it.

The Erosion of the Military:  At the order of the biden regime the Pentagon has changed its mission to "social change."  Officers are either promoted or cashiered depending on whether their views on race and gender toe the line.

When Trump was in office the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff (Mark Milley) even called his Chinese counterpart to assure him his American friend would warn the Chinese general if the U.S. decided to do anything militarily.

Sexes. The Left openly calls for the end of the heterosexual nuclear family.  The claim there are up to 100 "genders."  They're so agenda-driven that they make up pronouns and demand that the rest of us be prosecuted (literally) if we decline to use them.

The Left and Democrats insist that children as young as five are able to rationally determine that they're in the wrong body, and they demand that those kids be given puberty-blocking drugs, then cross-sex hormones, then sex-change surgery.

The Left and Democrats *demand* that elementary-school libraries display illustrated books showing homosexual acts, and scream bloody murder if parents object.

"Higher education"

It was once thought that universities should be places of inquiry and investigation.  The Left has now junked that, instead demanding that universities only investigate and publish ideas that help the Democrat party.  Free speech and equality under the law are no longer deemed useful, replaced by claiming private property is oppression, as are profits, white males and heterosexual Christians.