Victor Davis Hanson: Democratic Socialism Is The Result Of The Obama-Era Idea Of White Oppressors And The Oppressed
On FOX News, Victor Davis Hanson explained why socialism is becoming more popular in the United States:
LAURA INGRAHAM: Our next guest is a patriot himself, Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Victor, I want you to weigh in on this Somali flag raising this happening across the country, I’ve never seen anything like this. Perhaps it’s been going on for years, and I just didn’t notice, especially on our 250th. What would John Adams think? VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, SENIOR FELLOW, HOOVER INSTITUTION: I don’t think he’d be too happy. I think it’s a reaction against the Trump administration when they uncovered this massive Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota, and I think the Left seems to want to champion that community and absolve them of any culpability, even though many of Americans were involved, second, third generation, excusing them, but I think the whole process is kind of a perfect storm, Laura. We’ve had 50 years in the university where all we hear is a melodrama of how bad we were at our creation, our founding. We got worse during our maturity, and now we’re really bad, and that goes all the way down to K through 12. And then the university really, you know, they racked up 1.7 trillion in student loans, they triple the rate of inflation. They have these kind of non — they’re not really degrees, sociology dash studies, and so they, they get all these kids in debt, and then they have these worthless degrees, and they have delusions of grandeur, and so they’re very susceptible to socialism. We never had 53 million immigrants, and we never had 16 percent of the population, and this came at a time when we do not believe in the melting pot, acculturation, assimilation, integration, and we have people coming mostly from the third world now, and they’re poor, and they come here, and the Democratic Party welcomes them, and saying, you’re the other, or you qualify for DEI, and as long as you agree with our negative appraisal of our own country, there’s a lot of repertory advantages, affirmative action scholarships for you, and they buy into that very easily, and we don’t make any effort with civic education anymore. And then, of course, I think a lot of it started with the Obama administration when they really institutionalized DEI, and basically said there’s a binary in America, and it’s 30 percent non-white and 70 percent white oppressors, and we’re going to bring in people and we’re going to put them on the oppressed side of the binary, and all of that kind of came together in the last two or three years with this crazy manifestation, this Frankensteinian monster of what they call Democratic socialism, which really is socialism dash communism.
