Kerby Anderson

America is fragile. That is the conclusion of Victor Davis Hanson. We assume that this country can take anything thrown at it. The republic, however, is more fragile than we might imagine. He has many examples.

“We can afford 120 days in 2020 of mass rioting, $2 billion in damage, some 35 killed, and 1,500 police injured. We can easily survive an Afghanistan, and our utter and complete military humiliation. There was no problem in abandoning some $70-80 billion in military loot to terrorists.” Also, “we can jettison merit in every endeavor, from banning the world’s great books to grading math tests to running chemistry experiments. And still, a resilient America won’t notice.”

Of course, we are starting to notice. He reminds us of cities that have turned lawless, dirty, and toxic. Stores are boarded up, women cease to walk alone after sunset, and police officers rarely walk the beat.

There are solutions, like “doubling the police force, bringing back broken-windows policing, electing tough prosecutors, moving the homeless from the downtown into hospitals and supervised shelters.” Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be the will to do what worked in the past and will work again in the future.

He also mentions the fact that we have an open border where upwards of 4 million illegal aliens will flow into this country in a mere two years. Most arrived and were dispersed without audits, English, capital, income, and vaccinations. And we have no idea how to house, feed, and provide health care to these millions without background checks.

We may think this country is strong and resilient. But you can only throw so much at a country before it begins to crumble. Then you realize it is more fragile than you thought.