I Love VDH, But...

... he's too logical sometimes.

Victor Davis Hanson is, among his many other talents, the master of pointing out absurdities. A recent essay in American Greatness, The American Descent into Madness, is another gem. Here's a tiny snippet.

How strange that the U.S. government is considering going door-to-door to bully the unvaccinated, even as it ignores the daily influx of thousands from Mexico and Latin America, without worrying whether they are carrying or vaccinated for COVID-19. Meanwhile, the progressive media shrilly warns that the new Delta Variant of the virus is exploding south of the border. Note how the administration applies standards to its own citizens that it does not apply to foreign nationals illegally entering the country.

Yep, that's crazy alright. On the one hand, they're jumping up and down about vaccines and shutting down Los Angeles while on the other hand, they're allowing in as many Mexican and Central American peasants as possible. It makes no sense at all.

Much of my blogging for the past few years has been spent trying to figure out how this cognitive dissonance works. My conclusion is that VDH is right, it's illogical, but he's missing the secret sauce: pornography.

It makes sense as soon as you realize that the whole point of the exercise is to feel good about yourself. That's it, that's the whole enchilada as our new friends from south of the border might say. You can pile the dead bodies three-deep on the street corners and it won't phase the SJW crowd. Being "inclusive" feels so, So, SO GOOOOOooooood.

VDH's essay is worth a read as it lays out some historical examples of other nations that went mad over a short period of time. Yikes!

Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months. The French abandoned their supposedly idealistic revolutionary project and turned it into a monstrous hell for a year between July 1793 and 1794. After the election of November 1860, in a matter of weeks, Americans went from thinking secession was taboo to visions of killing the greatest number of their fellow citizens on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Mao’s China went from a failed communist state to the ninth circle of Dante’s Inferno, when he unleashed the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

Liberty! Fraternity! Equa ... Oh, screw it. Let's just guillotine some people. That's what we like the best anyway.

Bonus assertion: The guillotine was the point of the French Revolution from the start. It wasn't about who they helped, it was about hurting the people they hated. 

See also: Racial Justice, Whiteness Studies and.