“United States blew its unipolar moment and has chosen to surrender the world, after half-a-millennium, to post-western dominance. Whatever the truth of Biden’s charge that the money-no-object Afghan National Army went over to the other side, there is no question that key elements of American national power have gone over to China’s side: the Chamber of Commerce, Hollywood, the NBA, not to mention the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s protectors at the CDC and NIH; oh, and the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, at least two of whom have checked out with respect to anything to do with China…
Yeah, yeah, I know… Somewhere across the fruited plain a transgender Hispanic is shattering a glass ceiling… Our schoolchildren are, on the rare days their unionized “educators”, willing to tolerate their physical presence masked or unmasked, taught by the very best Critical Race Theorists… In the heart of America’s most famous cities citizens are randomly attacked with impunity by hammer-wielding #BLM aficionados, but relax, the poor lads were triggered by a statue of Teddy Roosevelt or Kate Smith… The Los Angeles Times is denouncing Larry Elder, a black man, as a white supremacist, because next thing you know all the black white-supremacists will be putting on viking horns and storming Governor Newsom’s French Laundry…
Our “experts” have expertise in nothing that matters - identity politics, micro-aggressions, statue-toppling, transgender sports… Much of American “conservatism” meets the civilizational vandals halfway - no, two-thirds of the way - so that the conversation is never anywhere near where it ought to be: No one could look objectively at an American TV network or newspaper and think this the public discourse of a serious power.
And yet apparently over half the nation does.
Until that changes, this is China’s world.”
The whole thing is brilliant and painfully true. Enjoy reading it all here: