北明編按：美國保守主義重鎮、胡佛研究所資深研究員、軍事史家、古典主義者、農場主維克特·漢森(Victor Davis Hanson)4月2日在X（推特）發文，依據美國現實，直陳摧毀美國的十一種方式，這些方式無一不是當今美國正在發生的事情。事實上，此文的十一條內容，不是抽象的理論編織，乃是對美國社會現象的總結。任何具有現實感，不帶政治偏見，與美國有實際接觸和關係（社會治安、校園風氣、國會聽證、拜登肢體、教會佈道、民間諺語、物價行情、銀行利息、養老社保、疫苗醫療、異議見解、言論尺度、油價、街景、交通、貸款、移民、租房、獻血、報稅……）的人，都可以感受到今日美國不同以往的現象。這些現象的存在，足以解釋為何美國政治光譜如今向兩端分裂，形成了保守主義（右翼）和激進主義（左翼）的對壘：後者十數年來在主流媒體、金融資本、高端科技、權力機構、教育系統的把持和作為，導致從前的古典自由主義者們的反對和對傳統價值的捍衛，從而走保守主義。此外，左翼的得勢也導致了從前的獨立派人士日益右傾，成為偏右的自由主義者。
隔海觀景的人們持續讚美美國燈塔，並在自身困境中堅定地仰仗其光芒，是情有可原的，“沒有了美國，我們到哪裡去戰鬥！”但是塔樓裡的巨變已經、至少正在使得過去的結論失去坐標。漢森談的只是政治層面的現象，更深刻的現象，他在此文的最後不過點到即止。雖然如此，真正看懂他的陳述，是感知當今全球文明生態九級地震的第一階。
以下是他的文章，X自動翻譯，編者做了少許校正。譯文在前，原文在後。
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如果某人想摧毀美國，他能做出比我們現在每天所見所聞的事更災難性的事嗎？一個存在的敵人會做哪些我們尚未對自己做過的事？
以下是如今耳熟能詳的、毀滅文明的十一個驟步：
1）剷除2000英里的邊界。允許1000萬外國人非法入境。沒有任何審計；廢除所有聯邦移民法。讓有毒藥物每年殺死 10 萬美國人。為數百萬違法者提供免費支援。將任何反對者抹黑為種族主義者和仇外者。
2) 國債增加35兆美元。繼續每 100 天增加 1 兆美元。誹謗任何希望削減瘋狂開支的人，说他们是殘忍和不人道的。
3）安撫或補貼伊朗和中國等敵人。妖魔化以色列等盟友。允許恐怖分子攻擊美國人而不回應。認為伊斯蘭教與基督教相似或優於基督教。向左翼政府彌補美國過去的不良國際行為。追隨聯合國、國際刑事法院和世界衛生組織等國際機構的領導，為美國過去的新殖民主義和帝國主義行為贖罪。退居二線國際地位，與美國的衰退相適應。
4）在一個多種族民主國家，僅僅使用個人的種族/部落歸宿（One’s Tribal Affiliation）重新定義個人身份。確保每個身分群體在受害者身分和國家所給予的戰利品方面與其他群體競爭。重新定義所有由種族和性別壓迫者和被壓迫者的政治議題。摧毀所有錄取、留任、晉升和表彰的精英標準。
5）將暴力犯罪重新定義為可理解的、發自內心的社會正義的表達。確保不得保釋的被捕、暴力屡犯之重罪犯當天獲釋。對暴力殺手和強姦犯表示同情；無視受害者，尤其無視被殺的警察。
6）使用非菁英的種族、性別和性取向標準決定是否晉升和表彰，從而削弱軍隊的力量。故意將軍隊中最大的人口數量抹黑為種族主義者和叛亂分子，而他們在最近的戰爭中死亡人數是其人口數量的兩倍，以便他們離開（混隊）或永不加入軍隊。鼓勵退休高級軍官誹謗他們的總司令。削減國防預算。停止生產足夠的武器，但將價值數十億美元的武器留給恐怖分子。
7）重塑司法系統，起訴、破產、定罪、監禁和消滅政治對手。使用撤選、彈劾、民事訴訟以及州和聯邦起訴書擊敗（政治）對手，而不是用選舉來擊敗對手。圍攻不服從命令的最高法院法官的宅邸，指名道姓地攻擊他們。
8）鼓勵官僚國家（權力機構）與電子媒體融合，形成強大的政治審計、監視、審查和強制力量。讓聯邦調查局與矽谷聯姻，並僱用其承包商來歪曲新聞並追捕所謂的人民敵人。
9）針對負擔得起的汽油和天然氣發動戰爭。即使能源價格讓中產階級破產，也要用低效率、不可靠、且昂貴的風能和太陽能來取而代之。
10）晚婚，但最好不結婚。認為男性有毒，尤其是男孩。不要孩子，或盡可能少要。否則，向孩子保證他們有權得到庇護，並且必須得到庇護（明注：在兒童性別意識尚未健全時，他們要求變性，家長不得干預，干預者違規並受制裁），培養並保持他們對過去幾代的規矩和現行秩序的不滿。
11）將世界一流大學變成洗腦中心。暫停校園權利法案。培養蔑視自己文化和文明的年輕人畢業。從敵對國家招募外國學生，補貼校園政委的膨脹。以治療性宣傳therapeutic propaganda取代（正常）課程。禁止 （廢除）SAT/ACT 考試，不（再）評估高中GPA。確保不在學生群體中擇優錄取。收取的學費高於通貨膨脹率。當學生拖欠貸款時，讓政府支付。
那麼，為什麼控制拜登的人利用他來推進如此破壞性的議程，從而終結我們所知的美國呢？
1）他們是妄想症，認為他們的社會主義和全球主義議程正在發揮作用，並將拯救我們。
2）他們是憤怒的虛無主義者，他們不喜歡美國，刻意要摧毀美國為世界服務。（因為）一個被毀掉的美國比一個強大的美國更可取。
3）他們是雅各賓革命者，刻意要剷除舊美國，以此作為創造一個全新美國的先決條件，這個新美國將從廢墟中崛起，沒有過去的痕跡，甚至沒有記憶。
4）他們沒有議程。他們是漫無目的的傻瓜，沉頭徹尾的無能之輩，這些混混只是日復一日地按照激進媒體、學術界和政界主子的吩咐行事。而這正是他們保住權力的必要條件。他們對自己造成的損害完全無知。
5）從1-3都有些可能，但不可能是4。
（譯文完，以下原文及鏈接）
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Why Are They Destroying Us?
Victor Davis Hanson
（@VDHanson）https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1775272720252760080
If someone wished to destroy America, could he do anything more catastrophic than what we currently see and hear each day? What would an existential enemy do that we have not already done to ourselves?
Here are eleven now familiar steps to civilizational destruction:
1) Wipe out a 2,000 mile border. Allow 10-million foreign nationals to enter unlawfully. Have no audit of any; nullify all federal immigration laws. Let toxic drugs in that kill 100,000 Americans a year. Give free support for those millions who broke the law. Smear any objectors as racists and xenophobes.
2) Run up $35 trillion in national debt. Keep adding $1 trillion to it each 100 days. Defame anyone wishing to cut wild spending as cruel and inhumane.
3). Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran and China. Demonize allies like Israel. Allow terrorists to attack Americans without response. See Islam as either similar or superior to Christianity. Make amends to leftist governments for supposedly past toxic American international behavior. Follow the lead of international agencies like the UN, ICC, and WHO to atone forpast American neocolonial and imperialist behavior. Recede to second-tier international status, befitting American decline.
4) In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity only as one’s tribal affiliation. Ensure each identity group rivals the other for victimhood and the state spoils it confers. Redefine all political issues by race and sex oppressors and oppressed. Destroy all meritocratic standards of admission, retention, promotion, and commendation.
5) Redefine violent crime as understandable, cry-of-the-heart expressions of social justice. Ensure no bail and same-day release for arrested, repeat violent felons. Empathize with the violent killer and rapist; ignore their victims, especially if slain police-officers.
6). Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender, and sexual orientation to determine promotion and commendation. Deliberately smear as racists and insurrectionists the largest demographic in the military who in recent wars died at twice their numbers in the population—so that they leave or never join the military. Encourage retired high officers to slander their Commander-in-Chief. Cut the defense budget. Stop producing sufficient weapons, but leave billions of dollars’ worth of arms to terrorists.
7) Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail and eliminate political opponents. Use ballot removal, impeachment, civil suits, and state and federal indictments rather than elections to defeat an opponent. Mob the homes of non-compliant Supreme Court Justices, attack them personally by name.
8) Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with the electric media to form a powerful force for political audit, surveillance, censorship, and coercion. Marry the FBI to Silicon Valley and hire its contractors to warp the news and hound supposed enemies of the people.
9.) Make war on affordable gasoline and natural gas. Substitute inefficient, unreliable, and expensive wind and solar power, even as energy prices bankrupt the middle class.
10.) Marry late, but preferably not at all. Consider males toxic, especially boys. Have no children, or as few as possible. Otherwise, assure children they are entitled, and must be sheltered. Raise them to have grievances against past generations and current norms.
11.) Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers. Suspend the Bill of Rights on campuses. Train youth to graduate despising their own culture and civilization. Recruit foreign students from hostile nations to subsidize campus commissarbloat. Replace the curriculum with therapeutic propaganda. Ban the SAT/ACT and do not evaluate high school GPAs. Ensure merit does not select the student body. Charge tuition higher than the rate of inflation. Bill the government when students default on their loans.
So why are those controlling Biden using him to advance much of such a destructive agenda that would end America as we know it?
1) They are delusional and think their socialist and globalist agendas are working and will save us.
2) They are raging nihilists who do not like the U.S. and deliberately want it destroyed as a service to the world. A ruined U.S. is preferable to a strong America.
3) They are Jacobin revolutionaries who are intentionally erasing the old United States as a prerequisite for creating an entirely new America that will arise from the ashes with no trace or even memory of its past.
4) They have no agenda. They are aimless fools, and utter incompetents. These bunglers just wing it day-to-day, in response to what their radical media, academic, and political masters dictate is necessary for them to retain power. They have no idea of the damage they are doing.
5. A bit of 1-3, but probably not 4.
（The End）
