Thursday  7 January 2016 / Hour 1, Block A: Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re:
We're in a global storm -  The Gulf, China, South China Sea, global markets, North Korea -  but in the US we're in perhaps the safest place. Essay on HateAmerica.com: do the constant critics of the US see that it's because of the structure and ethos and principles of the US that they have the luxury of criticizing? No – they constitute a tiny elite – they're not fixing plumbing all day or ploughing in the back forty – plus a small group of persons who have a personal fight against Americans.   Not much of the world has as good a space as a constitutional democracy in a multiracial society that actually works.  . . .  Then, you borrow $10 trillion and don't have much [elbow-room] left. Chickens come home to roost [quotation from Malcolm X].  Kids have $60,- 80,000 in school debts but are wholly inept in the real world, lack basic skills.  The best alternative to the US is the EYU – and not great; the rest of the world is totalitarian, misogynist, opaque in governance.  You'd think the La Raza profs would beat the border shooing immigrants back:  "It's horrible here – unfair, racist, ghastly." But no; they encourage more immigrati0n. Why?  I see the world disorder continuing.