{"id":1167277,"date":"2021-12-28T23:04:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1167277"},"modified":"2021-12-28T23:04:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T04:04:14","slug":"exclusive-victor-davis-hanson-elites-are-destroying-america-with-globalism-leftism-and-tribalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-victor-davis-hanson-elites-are-destroying-america-with-globalism-leftism-and-tribalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Victor Davis Hanson: Elites Are Destroying America with Globalism, Leftism, and Tribalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-victor-davis-hanson-elites-are-destroying-america-with-globalism-leftism-and-tribalism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1167277&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Victor-Davis-Hanson-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow sat down with historian and professor Victor Davis Hanson at the latter\u2019s home in Selma, CA, for a wide-ranging interview examining how America is being undermined by a modern globalist aristocracy. Hanson drew from analyses in his latest book,&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying\/dp\/154164753X?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hanson warned of lessening governmental accountability to citizens via the dissolution of American citizenship. The concept of citizenship, he added, is an essential component of Western civilization.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe citizen is very rare,\u201d he said. \u201cCivilization is very old \u2014 seven thousand years old \u2014 but for nearly the first 4,500 years, there were no citizens. They were slaves, or subjects, or tribes, or residents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201c[Citizenship is] the idea that you would have people who live in a confined space and they would govern themselves. T<span>hey would elect their officials They would audit them. They would set their budgets, their expenditures. They would decide when to go to war, when to have peace. That was a lot of responsibility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He explained, \u201cThe idea of citizenship is integrated with property rights, he remarked. \u201cMost importantly, [citizenship] seems to have started in the 8th century B.C. on the principal of inheritance, that you planted olive trees or vines on&nbsp;<span>binds on your small plot, and you \u2026 own them \u2014 the state didn\u2019t own them \u2014 and you had the right to pass them on without interference from the state. Like the American Constitution, the protection of property was very important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He observed how architects of the globalist enterprise cultivate ethnic and racial agitation to create perceptions of grievance and victimhood among targeted demographic groups. He noted that upward mobility rooted in meritocracy threatens the leftist paradigm of a zero-sum struggle between haves and have-nots.<\/p>\n<p>Neo-Marxist ideology\u2019s substitution of racial struggle for the class warfare framework creates a paradigm of permanent strife between races by framing whites as oppressors of non-whites, he shared. He noted how such a framework, rebranded as \u201ccritical race theory,\u201d allows for inclusion of black elites like Oprah Winfrey and LeBron James as members of a supposedly oppressed cohort.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Leftists] have always been equality-of-result people,\u201d he said. \u201cThey want a bigger government and more government employees to make sure that on the backend we<\/span><span>&nbsp;end up equally. We\u2019re all going to be poorer, but more equal; that\u2019s far better than all of us being better off but having [inequality]. They\u2019ve always been that way. They\u2019ve never been successful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He continued, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCalifornia, the United States, these were upwardly mobile societies. <\/span><span>Then they brought in this bankrupt European idea of critical theory, critical legal theory, critical race theory. It was basically an attack on the establishment that said that all the rules were socially constructed for the protection of what originally was a Marxist idea of elites \u2014 oppressive insects that sucked out the blood of the proletariat \u2014 a<\/span><span>nd then they that didn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hanson credited former President Barack Obama with amplifying the impact of left-wing racial grievance-mongering.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf you look at upward mobility among Latinos, and Asians, and African-Americans, it\u2019s going up,\u201d he said. \u201cS<\/span>o they thought, \u2018We\u2019re going to lose the victim vote. There\u2019s not going to be a victim vote,\u2019 and there are 17 ethnic minorities that make more per capita than so-called white people \u2014 Punjabis, Koreans \u2014 so they came up with the idea of diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201c[Leftists] said, \u2018I<span>f you are non-white, you are diverse, and therefore, no matter what your income, you\u2019re oppressed.\u2019 \u2026 It<\/span><span>&nbsp;was just a perfect matrix, the perfect paradigm for them. They said anybody who could be wealthy was forever a victim, b<\/span><span>ecause unlike class, if your new home burned down, if your your tech job evaporated, you could go down in class and be exploited, but not if you\u2019re Oprah, not if you\u2019re Meghan Markle, not if you\u2019re LeBron, not if you\u2019re the Obamas. You are always oppressed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow sat down with historian and professor Victor Davis Hanson at the latter\u2019s home in Selma, CA, for a wide-ranging interview examining how America is being &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}