American Paralysis and Decline | RealClearPolitics -
Victor Davis Hanson"We can bear neither our diseases nor their remedies."
So shrugged the ancient historian Livy (59 B.C.-17 A.D.) of the long decline of Roman national character that, in his age, finally ended the Roman Republic.
"Like a patient whose medicine proves worse than the disease, Livy lamented that the Romans knew that they had become
corrupt and lawless.But the very contemplation of the
hard medicine needed for restoration -- and the furious reaction that would meet the remedy -- made it
impossible to save the patient.America is nearing such an impasse.
- We know that no state can long exist after opening its borders to over 7 million illegal aliens, requiring neither background checks nor legality...
Everyone knows that
neither new appropriations nor new laws are needed to secure the border as it was in 2020.
- Instead, we could just stop suicidal catch-and-release, deport lawbreakers, privilege the legal over the illegal immigrant, demand would-be refugees apply for asylum first in their native countries, finish the border wall, and pressure Mexico to stop undermining the territorial integrity of its northern neighbor.
- But then we shrug, "We can't do that" -- paralyzed in fear of being smeared as "xenophobic," "nativist," or "racist."..
The same is true of the $35 trillion debt, now costing more than $1 trillion a year in interest payments -- and growing...
