Victor Davis Hanson: "I'm EXPOSING the whole damn thing..."

[@graphguy]

Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell are the 2 Americans that should be listened to IF you want America to survive.

[@toddgarten1]

We need Americans like this to lead the people, put them back on the path of sanity.

[@PF-ib2ve]

I could not agree more. These are the type of men we need to give audience to. Only total respect for these men.

[@gemox3225]

I totally agree. And, if I must be labeled, I'm slightly to the Left but I still love listening to these 2 guys.

[@cy-villian]

Is it worth considering adding Larry Elder to your list?

[@TiesOfZip]

I’ve been saying this for a few years now and I’m glad I’m not the only one that sees it. Between VDH and Dr Sowell, there is so much consequential knowledge it’s hard to fathom.

[@silverhammer7779]

It used to be said that the function of education is supposed to be to teach HOW to think, not WHAT to think. What we have these days is not education, it's indoctrination.

[@graphguy]

Couldn't be more accurte except to add this is not 'new', it just has reached new pinnacles of evil.

[@silverhammer7779]

@@graphguy Don't think it's reached its peak yet...just when you think the leftist commies have succeeded, they double down.

[@noeladcock]

And has been for several decades now. Completely destroying critical thinking. Is SO wrong and unfair to students although they are blissfully unaware and have NO IDEA what they have missed. It’s all they know. A disregard for all who disagree with their outrageous views.

[@commonsense6967]

@@graphguyTrue, but it's fairly newly EXTREME in the US.

[@graphguy]

@@commonsense6967 Depends on definitions: New? Extreme? The LEFT/evil always uses the boil the frog in the pot tactic. This has been brewing for decades.

[@Lynnette4]

Brave man, Victor Davis Hanson! Thank you for speaking up!

[@JanWoods-d3p]

If the rest of us would speak up like Victor does our country would probably be a whole different place not crazy like it is nowadays. 🇺🇸🦅Trump 2024🇺🇸🦅

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@JanWoods-d3p If he’s not speaking up about the Jews, he’s not serious.

[@Jackstraw911]

This guy is a national treasure, may God bless him.

[@joevarga5982]

Shut up. There's no God.

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

God is fictional.

[@sadwingsraging3044]

​@@DailyStalkerUpdatemilitant atheist snowflakes are so cringe!🤣 Go find a good leftist safe space and join your allies.🌈

[@sharonhoyt2133]

@@DailyStalkerUpdate Let us know your view on God the day before you pass away.

[@DailyStalkerUpdate]

@@sharonhoyt2133 Let me know your view on Santa Claus the day before you pass away.

[@deniswauchope3788]

Idiocracy isn't just a movie, it's reality these days.

[@Noitisnt-ns7mo]

It was an overestimation about intelligence.

[@AnonJohn143]

And we are just living through the first minutes of the movie...

[@konagirl805]

In 20/20 hindsight, the movie "idiocrasy" was a failure since it greatly underestimated the levels of socio-political insanity commonplace today.

[@deniswauchope3788]

@@konagirl805 Sadly true.

[@johnsmithers8913]

It's all rather bizarre that young people are rabidly pushing for the destruction of their own society and culture that provided the greatest "social justice" the world has ever seen. We've seen many examples in history of people rebelling out of envy and hardship but making their lot worse with the revolution. It's understandable why the poor workers of Russia ended up creating th Soviet Union, conditions under the Czar were terrible for most. But today, you have the most privileged actively destroying the society that gave them that privilege. I'm certain, they are not so "virtuous", that they want to personally give up their place at University and work on the bean fields for the rest of their lives, for the community. Either they are stupider than a pile of sheep dung or they think they will be the ones living in the Kremlin.

[@RobertTeague-sg3tw]

This results in a worthless degree and an incompetent class of graduates with degrees not worth the paper they are written on.

[@Sugarsail1]

For sure, if you were an entrepreneur in education, there's a huge opportunity here to replace the establishment educational institutions provided the financing could be acquired. I think education from top to bottom is going to be very different in 10-20 years.

[@makaha5750]

Example: AOC

[@Bonnie-e6p]

And heavily in debt.

[@alanmichel613]

These are the ones who would trade the country’s freedom in return for student loan forgiveness.

[@victoriameyers-y1o]

It really depends on who the teachers are who the kids work with. I taught at Columbia for 40 years, and I have many former students who continue to contact me and thank me for teaching rigorous studios. It depends on the teacher - but it would be helpful if the Administrations were better run!

[@just1stone689]

They've become the Poison-Ivy League.

[@Jan-fx2ny]

Universities and colleges were made by Christians, so were libraries

[@melo39987]

I’m attending one and I’m fighting this. It’s not all lost.

[@Lightwillwin]

And corrupted by Marxist, AntiChrist demonic people destroying the minds of children who have rejected God .

[@l.a.mottern3106]

That's a good one!

[@accesstotheredcarpet]

@@Jan-fx2nyIncorrect! And most Ivy League schools aren’t Christian schools. But nice try though with gaslighting smh

[@emmabovary1228]

Mr. Hanson, thank you. For everything. For being clearheaded. For being true, solid and honest. Thank you. A Student

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

This man has the most straightforward, honest analytical mind to be so seemingly soft spoken, yet his words carry the weight of 500 pound bombs. I love this guy.

[@henry-bo3np]

No more Harvard or Yale grads on the U.S. Supreme Court.

[@Somee989]

Poison Ivy League.

[@tangobear3536]

That eliminates Thomas, Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Kagan, Brown, Sotomyer. I'll take that deal.

[@benriding8678]

nor President like Barry!

[@noemibarrios4056]

@@tangobear3536Those judges graduated a while back ago this stuff started after they were gone at least most of this woke and DEI crap nice try but you’re wrong.

[@cllwydd]

@@noemibarrios4056 Remember whe everyone smoked in class and when someone fell asleep, the prof nailed them in the head with a piece of chalk?

[@dalewhite5152]

Victor Davis Hanson..a voice of REASON in a UNREASONABLE world

[@libbydressel9481]

I can’t help but hear the death rattle of this great nation

[@Fyrpylit]

My father graduated from Yale in ‘58. He said the left takeover of Yale was already in place there then. He did not encourage me to go there. 8th in my class out of 188 with a 4.25 gpa and a year and a half of college already completed I could have easily got in. I got into Stanford, the Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy, but chose to go to SMU in Dallas. Its still a conservative school. God bless Texas🤠 If I had known about Hillsdale, I would have gone there.

[@lyndaniel3369]

You had a very wise father. Congratulations to him for having a very wise son.

[@yesher12]

As a native of N. Texas, I would not say that SMU is conservative at all now. I'm in my 50's and it was once a conservative school but always a very snobbish student body. As a Texas Tech alum, we are a very conservative school in the sate of Texas. Just my two cents.

[@martinmerrill5366]

Wake up it's all bullshit for hells sake

[@lesleyvivien2876]

@@martinmerrill5366 What's all bullshit? Pronouns in online threads are rarely useful or informative.

[@MrTea7]

But Hillsdale is like the Mark Of Cain on a resume. Silicon Valley hates America and discriminates vs. military vets and whites. They are in love with B-1s from Asia. BTW a B-1 from China suicided by window jump at Facebook and it was NOT in the "news". The lone engineer who protested work conditions was fired immediately. Facebook=Fascist.

[@atomic432]

Victor is 100% correct. His ability to accurately describe a complex problem.

[@phillipruland4886]

In simple terms.

[@dmo7815]

The Department of Education is administered by the United States secretary of education. It has 4,400 employees - the smallest staff of the Cabinet agencies[5] - and an annual budget of $68 billion.[6] The President's 2023 Budget request is for $88.3 billion.

[@hikedayley9309]

There are over 8 million jobs in the trades that pay good money. College is a waste of time for millions of kids.

[@sarapiburn2523]

Agree 100%

[@doug8525]

Go into plumbing. There will always be a need for plumbers no matter how bad the economy is.

[@user-jo7mh8ri3g]

​@@doug8525 Damn right we are having one heck of a time finding plumbers and try finding a young electrian.

[@glasshalffull2930]

Back in the ‘60s, the most well off family in my middle class neighborhood was a plumber. His sons became plumbers and now supervise the plumbing of mega projects like the building of malls and resorts.

[@AMERICANsparky32]

Not anymore. Illegal aliens and cheap labor changed that.

[@roygorman6624]

Hanson you have your feet on the ground, thank you sir!

[@mcg5167]

Based on what we just witnessed, I would say without a doubt that the Ivy Leagues are dead.

[@jimmyjames7174]

The only way to revive Ivy League Colleges is to replace the entire faculty's but of course they have protected themselves with a thing they call 'tenure' which exists nowhere else!

[@donaldclifford5763]

Ivy League is nothing more than a bottom line motivated business model.

[@bluespruce679]

As another commenter stated, the Poison Ivy League colleges.

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@bluespruce679 Hitler. Think about him.

[@DeirdreMcNamara]

@@jimmyjames7174 I'm in a university town. The most intelligent, literary and literate conversations that I have enjoyed in two years was with two Irish bricklayers! Where the faculty is concerned, I have not met many but the theme song is indeed "tenure!" If I every write another musical that word will be set to music, ad nauseum!!!!

[@kellywright540]

If President Trump wins this fall, he should hire VDH as Secretary of Education!!

[@billwatson8616]

Really, we need to get rid of the Department of Education at the Federal level. They are the ones pushing this Critical Race Theory and LGBT agenda in our schools. They got to go.

[@lesheinen6116]

If President Trump wins this fall, he should get rid of the Department of Education and let each state deal with this.

[@lyndaniel3369]

@@lesheinen6116 Sure glad I read your reply before I spoke up. Pres. Carter (Democrat, started the FEDERAL dept. of educ. which gave the "government" the power to mold our children, as we have found out. States and local governments used to do this, and it reflected the beliefs of the people, not our enemies who wish to destroy us. One of the first things I noticed was, they didn't bother teaching "big words" or "spelling or grammar" because that interfered with "creativity". Twice, school books were dumbed down, and they kept destroying everything until now, if you want to get a skewed idea of sex or gender, just go to the elementary school library (if they'll let you in).

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

Betsy DeVos was Trump's best cabinet choice the first time around.

[@billwatson8616]

@@user-hm5zb1qn6g since 1977, US education went from number 1 to 13th. Let's just call this experiment what it was: a complete failure. It's time for the Federal Department of Education to go away.

[@AlwaysHopeful87]

Our country is sick, ill.

[@catiapb1]

And spreading all its crazyideologies like an epidemic to the Western World. This crap reached Europe...

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

What gave it away

[@Red-vn4xq]

It's been eaten like a cancer, from the inside out. Thing is the people voted for it over a decade ago. It's in stage 4 now.

[@ClassicRoyal]

Terminal unless God helps out, but we are not deserving His help because so many have fallen away.

[@terywetherlow7970]

We are all worthy. Where do you get your belief system from, dear?

[@matt75hooper]

17 year old kids that could not even get a $500 Gas Card from Exxon can get $300K from the Swamp to go to College. What could possibly go wrong ?

[@MrRicknavon]

Without Christ WE have no moral compass. That’s why this mess is happening.

[@maplemusic8851]

Jesus is the only way. Amen. He saves.

[@garybulwinkle82]

Without following the Ten Commandments and fellowshipping with God these floundering people are not of sound minds! They know not what to do!!!

[@ChrisPBacon-vk7sj]

The Great Spaghetti Monster would beg to differ.

[@vtrandal]

@@ChrisPBacon-vk7sjbut he is deaf and dumb

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

Ah yes, the christian comment bots.

[@davidsonowski414]

Mr Hanson your the man with common sense FJB and the Democrat Party

[@nightrunner1456]

I'm being blocked!

[@waburden]

Here's a thought. Get rid of Parties altogether - vote for the best people that support what's best for the nation - not greedy corporations, Party branding, or selfish constituents. Think about it! ps. Punctuation is a thing, lol.

[@JerryArmstrong-c2s]

​@@nightrunner1456yep me too

[@NovChivon]

​@user-oc7uq8ue7t deletebecausescaredoftruthtube

[@KenJackson_US]

@@waburden It's easy to just throw out ideas like that and assume they would work. Though if you want to just _"vote for the best people",_ then you should definitely vote for President Trump.

[@rontyler1234]

The most successful people I have hired have been high school droputs. Universities these days are producing entitled and lazy people, not all of course , but a substantial number. A person with a grade ten and a work ethic, has no other choice but to buckle down and do the job. Opportunities are limited for these people, what they get they tend to be serious about. As an employer my main interest is hiring a person to perform their tasks, without ego, or drama. Something these kids produce by the bucket load.

[@MarieLamour-cv1jc]

I was a HS dropout. I was bored because everything they taught was fluff. I did end up with 3 college degrees before universities went off the rails lol

[@Ken77114]

As a 83 year old, 48 year business/corporate guy, I agree 100%. A college degree would NEVER get me to hire you. Number one is...will you show up 15 minutes early and stay late if necessary? Will you read the order and get it right? Will you always try to learn and advance, or will you take long breaks and do squat work!? I am beyond thankful I made it out when I did. Now, I wouldn't even try.

[@MarieLamour-cv1jc]

@@Ken77114 You are not someone I would work for. Boomers expect you to be a slave to them. If going to the gym to stay in shape on my lunch break, so that I do not get sick and have to call in sick all the time because I am unhealthy is an issue, I wouldn't work for you. IF you're paying me overtime to stay, and I have no other obligations I would. However, the younger gens are tired of the low slave wages and poor work-life balance. Our lives are not working for you 24-7. If that is the expectation, I would start my own business lol This isn't boomer land anymore. Life isn't meant to work yourself to an early grave. You don't own us.

[@user-hm5zb1qn6g]

@@MarieLamour-cv1jc You proved his point. Bravo.

[@chrischristides]

@@MarieLamour-cv1jc You're about as sharp as a marble.

[@paulmysliborski4832]

"The Swamp". It reaches further than you realize......... And it is the single most dangerous thing facing America today.

[@nancythornton2947]

Way deeper then I thought. 🤦‍♀️

[@elizabethtencer7950]

And the biggest creature in the swamp is....Obama who pulls JB strings

[@georgewade9748]

@@nancythornton2947 oder 2 sets...one for you ..and one to give away....tick tock

[@georgewade9748]

The Spectre of Communism(Epoch Times)

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@nancythornton2947 Deeper and wider than you thought you thought. This guy is in on it.

[@BuyMoreAmmo]

Not only is our country sick we have a cancer and it has metastasized...

[@benrichardson381]

It has metastasized and the only hopes are action - chemotherapy, radical treatments, and prayer.

[@greggstrasser5791]

@@benrichardson381 Prayer? So you know about the Pharisees? Jesus and God aren’t mentioned in the Constitution. This Satanic pit is a direct violation of Romans 13. Wake the fuck up. Pharisees.

[@sherrymiller2302]

Boeing! DEI hiring.. doors on aircraft blowing off! I don't fly anymore!

[@jimsilvey5432]

Boeing" troubles began years before DEI. It began when business men began to make engineering decisions. Its a problem that crosses a lot of disciplines. Are you looking for solutions of justification of your beliefs ?

[@drwhatson]

​@@jimsilvey5432Either way, who needs external terrorists when faced with that scenario?

[@emmabovary1228]

Thankfully, I am willing and able to drive to all the locations I’m interested in for travel. Boeing has convinced me to wait. And I will.

[@sirifail4499]

It’s not Boeing that should scare you. It’s the airline’s DEI quotas for pilots that should worry you.

[@sputzelein]

@@jimsilvey5432 There is no such thing as businessmen who don`t make engeneering decisions. Nothing is new about this.

[@rickwilson8533]

Lowering the standards in these colleges so people can graduate is cancerous. Destroying this country from lower learning.

[@MimiJoys]

Same as lowering the standards to get in too, it's doing the same thing.

[@wendygvozdich3187]

Uneducated people are easier to control. That’s what these Marxists are trying to do in this country. Instead of educating our children, they want to indoctrinate them into their ideologies.

[@warrenpuckett4203]

I was barely in the upper 2/3 of my High School class. 2nd highest SAT. No. 1 and No. 3 got recognized. Why? Because my mother was just 'passin' for white. Then they found out she was a Eye Talian. Not much different. Yes, that was in the same 1st place those restaurant sit-ins took place. That was life in the early 1960s. I graduated and got two degrees. But I really liked working with my hands outdoors instead of sitting behind desk. I got it the hard way. I also did not qualify for any of the DEI benefits. Oh and my father died when I was 18. Mom went though the money. Like a big dog that just pulled that cooling off pot roast from the table.

[@effewe2]

When all else fails, lower your standards!

[@pauljastrzebiec-milewski4410]

No Child Left Behind concept lowered the teaching standard to meet the dumbest members of the class, abilities. The results are obvious. The stupidity of the "country" achieved, goal fulfilled.😢😢😢🤑🤑💩💩💩💩

[@jerrydalton3203]

Excellent as usual. Victor says "they didn't understand the effects", but I think they did understand, they just don't care.

[@Paul-k9x]

We need University presidents with a backbone that aren't afraid to do what's right

[@machismo4256]

The University Donor class are fully behind LGBT stuff. Thus destroying America. When the students showed they still had sense of right & wrong the Donors are threatening to withdraw funding & want the students expelled.

[@marciakipp3633]

And "say", what's right "! 😮 ❤

[@lesleyvivien2876]

I can no longer say that something depends on the context. That phrase has been sullied by "Dr" Gay and her peers. It just sounds dirty now.

[@williamsweeney7954]

Not holding my breath.

[@Paul-k9x]

@@williamsweeney7954 me either partner, it looks like it's expect the worst hope for the best

[@UNCHART3DGAMING]

Pull the plug on this sh!t now!!

[@m.f.m.67]

Pull the plug on the money and it would implode fairly quickly. No more tuition grants, no more college aid of any kind, no more government university grants of any kind, period. No more subsidies, no more research grants, nothing. The University system would collapse under its own bloated weight. Of course, Biden does the exact opposite, bailing out student debt left and right with our money.

[@greggstrasser5791]

Schlomo, shut it down! They're onto us!

[@deanlevay7081]

Unfortunately the university paradigm no longer functions in support of the society that created it. It is obsolete.

[@belle6219]

Universities were not created by society in the first place. They were designed by the powers that should not be to indoctrinate minions with their false narratives and then hold positions of authority over society within all professional fields. Society can and should create a much better means of advanced education. The universities don't advance us, they hold us back.

[@DeirdreMcNamara]

Founded by Irish monks...

[@philiphumphrey1548]

Similar story here in the UK. Ever since Tony Blair said "Education, education, education" and made it his goal that 50% of young people should to go to university or college, standards (both among students, final graduates and teaching staff) have nosedived. The value of degrees in the workplace has also gone into freefall. The universities now face a crisis of intellectual bankruptcy, and the proliferation of stupid ideas (that can't be challenged because of the censorship and cancel culture).

[@beasport505]

Tony Blair is also a major WEF member

[@heatherhinde6544]

The standatds in schools have also and especially since the rise of specoal needs students and EBD students have been integrated into classes. There was a time when teachers taught to the middle and pushed the top end but now lesson time is taken up with the bottom end and with behaviour management despite LSA support.

[@mikemph7779]

The future is bleak. What happens when these college graduates enter the workforce??

[@sierrasky2491]

"A" university.

[@noeladcock]

Blair was the beginning of UK’s freefall. Makes me so sad to see what has happened to your great country. I’m glad I got to visit decades ago when your country was mostly Brits.

[@phyllischaffin4052]

My brothers and i all have bachelor's and master's degrees. One of my brothers was valedictorian, so he got a full scholarship to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga within 45-50 miles from our home. My other brother and i had work scholarships at Chattanooga State Technical Community College. Later, we transferred to UTC. I had an assistanceship for part of my master's degree classes. We all worked part-time during college. We grew upon a farm. We knew that one of my grandfathers was illiterate. My mom was the first person in her family to graduate high school and she helped my dad get his GED. He had dropped out to take care of his family and his father with cancer. Long story short, we knew it was a privilege for us to go to college. We and our families worked hard for it. The state schools near us were good enough. Before my past car accident injuries caused me to not be able to work, i taught every grade from 7th - 12th and college. I could see a decline in parenting, student's behavior, entitlement, etc. The number of kids with involved parents and hardworking kids declined. We are paying the price for these mistakes.

[@lesleyvivien2876]

Phyllis, I was a classroom volunteer ("Mum's Army") for 14 years, in a lower school in England. When I started, in 1992, the children were eager to learn and eager to please. I noticed slight differences every year, By the time I stopped, they seemed to have stopped caring. Was it that life got harder, and parents were too tired to be engaged? Was it that more and more admin was expected of teachers, and they were too tired to manage to be inspiring - just happy if the whole class was still alive at hometime? I decided very young that I didn't want to teach. Teaching would have been OK but I didn't think I could manage the discipline. Now, you have to teach, maintain discipline, and be a social worker.

[@scottmallender9738]

Every University should be responsible for minimum of 50% of Student Loans moving forward. Without that, government should give grants only, there’s no accountability presently for these higher education institutions…

[@ssaraccoii]

How about performance-based tuition. If the graduate is unable to find a career in their degreed profession, the university refunds tuition on a year for year basis.

[@stevev238]

Exactly right about the over-entitled brats who are unemployable.

[@timothyorourke680]

I’m unemployed because the border has been open for 55+years! Where every job is filled by the Spanish people from South America. Corruption for over 55 years! Those who made the money then are making the laws today. On purpose. 😡

[@markpaulin884]

Couldn’t agree more. Our colleges have become a cesspool of liberals.

[@mrpoolplayer6379]

We have plumbers in Tulsa, making $40.00p/h Up in wages..., Electricians make $75.00 p/h & more...

[@greggstrasser5791]

Liberals? Get real. Just say Jews.

[@wyldbill100]

Liberal Imperialism. Almost lost my opportunity as a conservative Christian to earn a Master's degree because of a "liberal full tilt anti-GOD" professor. Being an older student, my superb GPA standing, a professional career already established, and my military veteran status the college I attended "heard" my case and my documented evidence of my being academically targeted, I was able to find relief from that professor and ultimately earn my graduate degree. I was smart enough to know the difference between an "academic education" (that I was paying for) and liberalistic indoctrination that fails under intelligent argument and HONEST critical analysis. Surprisingly, the professor in question had very limited knowledge of the actual field of study being pursued in our coursework. I am deeply grateful for the experience and having an academic advisor who had the courage to correct the injustice on my behalf.

[@cbass2755]

♥️

[@robertbrown7470]

Neither do We the People of the United States want to subsidize it.

[@charlottejacobs4397]

Victor, you are so correct as the education standards have been lowered so much as it shows in everyday life!

[@judyirving7631]

Its all over !! Sit back and enjoy the show. Its only ever gonna end one way. Cocked Locked and ready to Rock !!

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

What?! 🤔

[@Skip8459]

I think he means that he has a lot of lead in his house!

[@RealityQuest-lk1dm]

I think the only peaceful solution will be to vote on states seceding. States that share similar ideologies can form their own nation. Or at least allow states to have greater autonomy. It's the only way to avoid mayhem.

[@martinpettet3592]

This man is a gleam of light and a fountain of humane wisdom among the insane voices that are driving this country ever deeper into darkness and destruction. Heed his words, please.

[@SherriMcMurray-lr6tu]

Hear hear!!!

[@1notgilty]

Employers want employees who won't cause trouble and will work hard and be capable. They don't want coddled troublemakers who graduated from prestigious colleges simply because they checked the right diversity equity and inclusion boxes on their applications. Who would have imagined that ability still matters?

[@garybulwinkle82]

This is the Left's new religion, and they will force it down our throats, either by the law or the, soon to be implemented, social credit scores! They will have the power to control your money with the, soon to be implemented, digital money; one click and your money is deactivated or disappears!!! The prophesies in the Bible are coming true right in front of our eyes!!!!

[@gertrudewest4535]

Corporations like stupid people

[@jinamerica]

Hmm.... If employers don't want coddled troublemakers infiltrating the US workforce, then we really should consider who does want that. Because what is happening is not just happenstance. It was very much envisioned and implemented. It's a clear agenda to break down the societal foundation of the nation.

[@astridgalactic9336]

True, but there are still a whole lot of employers who demand those limp pieces of paper.

[@1notgilty]

​@@astridgalactic9336 True, but most of those are government employers and organizations that need/want to project a "diverse" workforce and can afford to carry all of the affirmative action and DEI dead weight.

[@vonrock6862]

Graduated in 67’ We learned about America, our history and politics. Studied communism and their objectives, you thought you decided

[@mrjuvy49]

So did I , in Vietnam in 1968. Vote blue and save our country don't elect Putin's puppet.

[@jmanjman3916]

@@mrjuvy49 I’d rather be his puppet than his enemy. So you want war with Russia? You supposedly served in a war and you think that’s a good idea? No wars from 2016-2020-only unrest was left wing riots. Democrats are warmongers and Joe is doing zero to try and negotiate peace.

[@PhilDavisplus]

Life is like physics. One reaction creates an equal or more significant reaction.

[@illbeyourmonster5752]

Pretty much. 40+ years of the decent rational majority refusing to gatekeep, let alone fight back, in any meaningful way is what allowed them to take over.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

In leftwing politics almost every single action has precisely the opposite effect to that intended.

[@lyndaniel3369]

Exactly. Consequences are being ignored with horrific results (or maybe, planned results, depending on whose side you are on). NO ONE thinks of Consequences! You can't do just "one" thing because other things are influenced.

[@illbeyourmonster5752]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 Nobody cared until they tried to force people to care. Now they care about the total opposite of what they wanted them to.

[@Dan-qm7ho]

University degrees are worthless now.... A parent is better off advising their child to attend a trade school or join the Military to focus on learning military skills leadership etc... It's high time we focus on rebuilding our Middle Class who can actually do real things to contribute to society and build traditional wealth and security...

[@ksgraham3477]

Not the military, if you love your kid, don't encourage them to engage in the piracy of other counrties' assets in the guise of democracy or other self-serving lies that justify invading sovreign nations.

[@ballardevans8425]

Listen to the end of what he said near the end about the elites. Good always prevails. Thank you Mr Davis. None of us are initialed to any thing. U work for it

[@johnroehrig3636]

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[@MimiJoys]

College ruined my son. Smart as all get out, came home from college, and after a semester of Biblical Teachings, decided he "learned" that the Bible is a lie. 😢 He has never been the same person he was before going to college. 💔

[@RachelParsons-ch8wg]

I am so sorry about your son.

[@bobdale7304]

College is supposed to be the best experience of your life. Your son is a strong independent thinker, but tell him never give up on God. I pray he uses this experience to continue to search for his truth. May he flourish and grow in wisdom and strength.

[@RLMike-k1p]

Keep praying 🙏🏻!!! Nothing is more powerful than the prayers of a parent. Especially a mother. Nothing is impossible for our Father. Jesus is my Lord and Savior ✝️

[@peacemakerservant2137]

Keep praying and fasting for your son. I face the same situation with my son who went to UCDavis. While I don’t claim in any way that I was a perfect mother, I know that I worked hard to give my best to my children-and I know they had it better than I did growing up. So I leave my grown children in the Hands of my Savior and trust Him with them. It is a deeply hurtful thing to rear them with good values and sacrifice for their education, to only result in their rejection of Biblical values. But God has seen this play out many times in many generations over time. I pray and love them; I fast and work on becoming the person God wants me to be. Thanks for this opportunity to share. I need to remind myself of this often.

[@MimiJoys]

@@peacemakerservant2137 Thank You!

[@sanjaybhatikar]

The system is past the point where it can be fixed from within.

[@williebobs3830]

A few good, strong men can do it.

[@maplemusic8851]

Trust in Jesus. He saves.

[@davidmiller532]

Shut them down we need a honest national discussion about how we got here and where are we going.

[@MountainwithaView]

satan is running this world.... end is near..... buckle up!

[@malachiteofmethuselah9713]

You got here because absolutely noone has been honest. DUH.

[@helsbels2582]

Let’s all acknowledge that the world is a corrupt place. The corrupt are so powerful, I don’t know that we will ever climb out of that.

[@terrylandess6072]

It not the top layer of corruption but those lower, willing to do anything for a slice of their master's pie that have convinced me we can never rise above that relationship prevalent throughout history.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

A ladder of lead.

[@mycharmedunicorn8715]

God is the only way

[@sharonbice7490]

This world is ruled by Satan.

[@poursomebeeronit]

Power corrupts. Very possible to be humanity's downfall.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

The intimidation for high grades by Muslims goes back to the 70s. I was attending City College in Sacramento in the late 70s. Students from Iran were intimidating teachers, demanding straight As etc. They were the sons of rich Iranians and they acted completely entitled.

[@cakensteak]

I ended up in BU grad school of communications in the bad economy of 1990. All foreign students.

[@billwatson8616]

I have had a Iranian's trashing my Vet family online recently. The guy is a punk and hates America. Told him to go back to Iran.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Disrespect and ingratitude, wrapped in an exaggerated sense of entitlement.

[@Godfearingman]

Iranians are the most entitled and racist of all people.

[@CatholicTraditional]

Those Iranian kids grew up under the Shah, who was governed Iran as a Western nation until 1979.

[@patriciaroberts9269]

Brilliant!

[@johnmcleod8961]

I'm a 65 yo retiree...had a great career...I earned a B.S. and an M.Ed...I truly felt like I was educated, not indoctrinated...the 5th column was there even in my day...I grew up and became of age in the '60s and '70s...govt has always had "left and right"...but when it came down to actual governing, they always seemed to form coalitions that made govt functional...no, it's strictly partisan politics today...if there's a civilization that ever fails, look to govt...the everyday joe/jane just wants to get on with their lives...but no, some govt obsessed with power thinks they know better than we do how to get on with our lives...govts destroy civilizations, not the citizens...govt will not stop until they destroy mankind, rendering us extinct...if you don't believe that, then maybe you need a history lesson.

[@bobleglob162]

it is a parasite

[@surewhynot6040]

Claudine Gay STILL teaches at her school. Earning $900k/year. Yes, you read that right.

[@cheryllindberg1975]

More details please

[@jeffreybaier5312]

Her degree is totally worthless because she cheated.

[@Namelbmert]

@@jeffreybaier5312Leftists clearly value cheating over all else.

[@MrElapid]

I read that and wasn't surprised at all.

[@stormbringercoming8105]

She obviously retained her job on her good looks.

[@gerrytyrrell1507]

VDH..Close all the universities down for 5 years ...Ireland

[@burnhamsghost8044]

I’d like to see that actual percentage of these students that’ve read a whole non-fiction book, cover to cover.

[@markenge9348]

When I was 12 I read Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason" cover to cover and carried around a copy of The Communist Manifesto. 60 years later I read and reread the Bible from cover to cover, every word and every 170 days, 7 chapters a day. If I had done that 60 years ago I never would have gone to college and wasted my time with a degree in pholosophy.

[@johnl2445]

Dont Encourage It.

[@pjw661]

You said it!

[@RachelParsons-ch8wg]

I pray my granddaughter will not attend public schools or college. Come soon Jesus!

[@christophresmerowski1824]

Has come and gone and you missed it - sorry. Read The Divine Principle.

[@roberttuss5349]

VDH nails it with clarity and simplicity, so even a middle class knucklehead like me can understand.

[@JeanneEngebretsen]

I do not understand why we have students from other countries. We desperately need new education from preschool to a Masters Degree. We must have people who can practice critical thinking. Looking forward to reading your new book. Thank you ❤ Gina

[@pattyhansen7563]

Because they pay in full, cash. Whereas American students are on loans or grants. that is why. Plus, they tend to come from countries that really value hard work in academics. Most of the foreign students that went to my college were the top of the class. It makes the school look good & helps pay the bills. My roommates were all from Puerto Rico, The Dominican Rep., Indonesia & they are the richest of the rich in their home country. they had maids, butlers, chauffeurs ...

[@alphacharlietango969]

Harrison Butker said nothing wrong.

[@conservativemike3768]

Fifty years ago my university was populated by tall, smart, and beautiful people. I visited the campus recently and found it crowded with short, dark, and bitter trolls. It’s appalling what has happened.

[@ramonapool619]

Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of truth.

[@poursomebeeronit]

We've a lot of intelligence and zero idea how to best use it. No wisdom.

[@gibwest4968]

Mr. Hanson always has sound advice and knowledge to so!ve Americas problemd

[@jaywalker0112]

Victor should be the next President. Pure wisdom is all I get when I hear him speak.

[@vodekz1534]

Great information

[@marcpedneault3362]

When community and family are destroyed and replaced with corporate think ideology we are doomed.

[@robertbrown7470]

Yes, they are full of crap.

[@EasyEight3674]

The only reason to send your child to a top school in the US today is if they study STEM. STEM is only lightly affected by DEI idiocy and is still rigorous and valuable.

[@motofunk1]

Except it’s now STEAM, that is how the corrupt it.

[@CatholicTraditional]

@@motofunk1If the A stands for Architecture, 👍.

[@noneyabeeswax3200]

The deliberate dumbing down of a nation.

[@grannygear1001]

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists." Another Hemingway quote. He knew.

[@bluskytoo]

i always second guessed my decision to forego college and go into the military. I travelled the world and saw all 50 states, finished my college one class at a time after work. My school was paid for. Im happy now with the path i chose. BTW i lost every high school friend i had by joining the military. ( 1974)

[@dennisgonya4500]

I bought the technical books and went to work. I became a staff engineer/scientist at IBM with a complicated patent and had no degrees. I did attend a couple Jr colleges and the professors said "what are you doing here" so I left. The also said I could teach the class.

[@victoriameyers-y1o]

Yes. My approach as well. I'm shocked by many of the comments I see here. Many are hateful. I'm also shocked by how little people read! Good for you reading the books! I did the same, and never had to study for tests, and got straight 'A's'!

[@jacoblong6258]

Wow this is amazing I have been reading up on if ground root engineering is still possible without a degree. I met some old engineers at a OEM agricultural company I use to work at who had a similar story but it seems this is becoming a unicorn of a story. It would be great to pick your brain sometime if possible 🙂.

[@picterpreterearth]

The biggest Corporate employer on earth (the US Gov.) has said degrees no longer matter...the directors of I.T. have said they don't care where or how you gained your skills, autodidactic is fine.

[@lv4077]

BS,Our military and bureaucracy are 100% behind DEI crap

[@rogeralsop3479]

Victor Davis Hanson hombre.

[@johnduffin9425]

great movie. VDH is the Hombre Indeed! Love that opening bar scene. Newman performed great dentistry with his stock of his 1873 Winchester in .44-40! 'Hey!, Hombre!' Great line!

[@glasshalffull2930]

I was a guest speaker at a local college and the apathy by the students at large was astounding. WTF are you doing in college if you’re not interested. I guess it’s better than getting a job. There was one exception. An army vet. He was completely engaged and had great questions.

[@pattyhansen7563]

My daughter's friend attends Buffalo State, in the bio/med track. She talks all the time about students that skip class, cheat during tests, sleep or play on their phones during lecture, complain about being there, sleep all day. I remember doing some of this stuff during college (not the cheating or sleep/phone during lectures LOL), because it was the first time I was really responsible for managing my own time, etc... but if all you want to do is protest or sleep you can do that for free without tying up a bunch of loan money or tax payer dollars. Why insist that your kid go to college if they are like this? Why go to college at all if you don't want to be there? you are just wasting your time!

[@alandavis9644]

I train university grad hires, after a long orientation. They are all told "the man that is now going to train you in the facts of the real world is hard core, no bullshit, doesn't tolerate whinners. If you survive the next 2 months you will be one out of 5 of every class we hire". Unfortunately, the last 2 years of hires, not one has survived, they all quit.

[@jeffreybaier5312]

That's because they are cheating these people and not preparing them for life. Degrees are essentially worthless because they give them out to anyone.

[@TsugaC]

Which industry?

[@alandavis9644]

@@TsugaC insurance adjuster

[@victoriameyers-y1o]

Honestly? I taught grad level architecture for 40 years. If all the kids you taught dropped out I suspect you're being rude and/ or very difficult to get along with. I'm very demanding of my students, but I also never had anyone drop out because of me. Most of my former students have stayed in contact with me. What on earth are you doing?

[@alandavis9644]

@@victoriameyers-y1o preparing them to be insurance adjusters. Tough job.

[@mikegalvin9801]

My college years were 72-6. My faculty advisor was a major Melville scholar who was also an avowed Marxist. Yet when I asked for summer reading his advice was "You're Catholic, right, so never read the King James Bible. You must or you can't understand English literature or Anglo American history." He also had no use for Marxist or feminist of any other such interpretation of the English Lit he taught. In fact he would play Devils Advocate quoting Milton Friedman at them. Now that's all gone, nothing but parrot teachers parroting the party line to their sheep like students.

[@jdobbs7700]

My higher education years were the same as yours except I stayed through '78 and earned a Master's degree. 40+ years in the corporate world and near the end I was being assigned new managers who were almost exclusively minority females and most were poor work performers who were continually promoted. My youngest child went to my same University and graduated with Honors by being selective in coursework and professors. Just like people our age say John F Kennedy co 8:19 uld not be a Democrat today, my child and I observed that the "liberal" faculty of my era no longer exist... today they are angry radicals. It's a sad situation for our Nation.

[@BeautifuLakesStreamsBiologists]

It is time to let universities know we are going to cut back our donations.

[@fjb4932]

That's the problem, right there : "... going to cut back..." . No drop, eliminate, cease, void, nor end. Just ",,,cut back..." Like having cancer and deciding to fight it "...a little bit..." . Pathetic... ☆

[@bobleglob162]

you donate? you'd get more out of your money wiping your a** with it.

[@susanhansenpeters8620]

So grateful for a voice of truth. Thank you Victor.

[@1notgilty]

A Chinese engineering student once told me: "American students worry if they will pass. We Chinese worry, will we get an A."

[@delprice3007]

A lot of foreign students are sub par

[@1notgilty]

​@@delprice3007 It depends on the student, the school, the subject matter and whether English is their native language if they are studying in the U.S. Most Japanese high school graduates have seven years of a foreign language, usually English, and many of them are more literate in English than American students. Japan, China and most other Eastern countries also have no affirmative action of DEI programs so the students have to progress by their own merit not their alleged victim status.

[@mrjuvy49]

They rely on rote memory. Look how few when the Noble Prize.

[@1notgilty]

​@@mrjuvy49 That was true of most Asian students in the past but it is changing. About 80 percent of students pursuing graduate engineering degrees at my university were foreign students.

[@jamesschmehl5972]

Gee..have you heard of the chinee roads and bridges disasters??? Sorry Charlie but chinee engineering leaves an awful lot to be desired.

[@JamesBradleyCA]

Absolutely spot on!

[@tshuvahavodah237]

The loss of the fear of God has empowered the demonic world by our own lazy souls.

[@stevev238]

You and our own Dr Starkey in the UK are the two voices of reason taking the battle to the left. Keep going sir- I always find you very worth listening to.

[@helsbels2582]

When you look at the uni students, they just look like a bunch of actors, activists. If you tell me they want to be doctors or lawyers, you would have me fooled.

[@WJHandyDad]

job interviews in the last decade + have been a joke... folks can't answer open ended questions... simple things like "what was your favorite class? What did you learn in it? Why did you like it?" They want me to give them multiple choice answers to pick from

[@robertbucsh8840]

Most of the elite schools made their reputations based on their graduate schools so their undergraduate product is not better than state universities. I earned a BS in Chemistry from a small state university and scored 820 GRE on the Chemistry test. That score put me well into the top 10% even though I didn't go to an elite school.

[@CatholicTraditional]

A lot of state schools were elite or very good. Others not so.

[@robertbucsh8840]

@@CatholicTraditional My point was a BS degree from an Ivy League school is no better than a good state school.

[@tylerdurdensystem7317]

It's the same reason why everyone is fat

[@DanielFoley75]

And that reason is Capitalism

[@sanniepstein4835]

​@@DanielFoley75then why have things become worse as the government has grown and society moves further left?

[@elizabethdg]

People starve under communism​@@DanielFoley75

[@JamesBrown-db9pk]

lazy fks

[@rachelfrees1268]

Evil comes in such beautiful packages. It’s chased me all 84 years of my life. God is winning.

[@mallariculp3551]

Shut down the Ivy League schools.

[@Cheerfulairplanewindow-qt7im]

I love listening to this man. He's so intelligent and also has a very nice voice. When he speaks, I listen.

[@donbing3662]

As parents witnessing the absolute decay of the colleges we will not support our children going to such a trashy thing . We decided that we would get loans and hire the right mentors to coach and start businesses that our children would want to own or have. I can pay for our kids college or I can support them in starting their own business and starting their own business is where and only where my money will go . Colleges and the professors and the education system is a indoctrination camp that I can't support.

[@katherinepoletto3259]

FINALLY. I was wondering if I just Imagined all of this occurring.

[@longlost8424]

PAY BACK the Social Security Fund BEFORE you wipe out the debts incurred for education! I've paid into this system of ours for the past 45 years, and WE need the relief since its OUR MONEY that is being wasted on this nonsense.......

[@mikebarton6378]

Good for you, thank you or speaking up

[@davidelkins9894]

Georgia Tech is not the resort VDH seems to think. The admin is full blown woke and the problems he expresses in this video are nearly full blown at Georgia Tech. Just ask Judith Curry. And that was years ago.

[@williamallison3410]

Spot on sir, love to listen to your insight.

[@jessegarman7899]

Fortunately, a lot of these lesser institutions will not be able to survive. Enrollment is way down and will continue to drop. I heard one estimate that in 20 years 25% of all universities will have closed. Glad to see it too

[@CatholicTraditional]

A lot of wrinky-dink colleges have closed in the last 5 yrs.

[@johntait491]

Here in Australia, anti-Semitism has emerged on university campuses as well. May I suggest that no-hopers who scraped into uni, doing no-hoper degrees and no-hoper subjects, are getting into anti-Semitic agitation, let alone other mad causes like Extinction Rebellion because they don’t have a legitimate way to make their mark on society. 😠

[@Pieguts123]

I regularly work in places that are staffed by young adults say - twenty to mid-thirties, in roles which do not require an academic qualification - catering, hospitality, retail etc. Most people in this age group, in these jobs, have been to university. They would all be in a much better job by now if they had left school at sixteen, worked their way up AND - not taken out a student loan for the rest of the taxpayers to pay.

[@strictlyconservative8777]

Victor, my son graduated from Texas A&M as an engineer. Texas A&M is no longer a great University. They also went woke and allowed thousands of people of color who couldn't pass the entrance exams in. The neighborhoods suddenly and drastically changed and not for the better. What was once a nice, safe college town turned into a ghetto. A&M used to be a conservative University and no longer is.

[@kyzor-sosay6087]

Hate to hear that,always seems to be one common denominator. Good luck to your son,Victor,wish him health and success.