Fascinating interview with Victor Davis Hanson and Mike Rowe on the issue of the Class warfare that is currently happening in the West, emphasis is on American society and the left’s assault on the working class.
Mike Rowe brought Victor Davis Hanson onto his podcast for an interview to discuss Class Warfare as contrast against the 2024 election and what is at stake. The impetus for the interview was an article written by VDH a few months ago about the shift in the American electorate and how disconnection within the populaces has become apathetic to the realities happening on the ground.
Within the interview VDH walks through a summary of how a modern muscular tech industry replaced Mainstreet on the financial side of financial economics and American wealth. Essentially, how a small group of tech companies replaced the blue chip titans and industrialists on the global wealth scale.
As 8 billion people started being able to purchase the goods and services of a small American group of entrepreneurs, all focused heavily inside the tech and finance sector, the people who owned wealth has shifted dramatically. Decades later, against the backdrop of globalism, the issue surfaces as the industrialists (Main Street corps) offshored their manufacturing, while the tech industrialists (Muscular Wall Street) started to be the wealthiest people in the USA as a result of selling their tech products to the world, leaving the working class to struggle to survive with less.
Within the discussion, the academically disposed VDH points out empirical data that bolsters his theories and analysis. Rowe is in general agreement as they both discuss the granular consequences. However, there is one fascinating part (prompted below) where VDH accurately identifies conservative economic hero Milton Friedman as one of the early globalist villains.
VDH aptly and correctly points out that Friedman was a rabid open borders advocate, who had no issue with lowered wages for U.S. workers and embraced the global system of manufacturing which led to a destroyed U.S industrial base creating the Rust Belt. Few people on the conservative side of politics will ever admit how Milton Friedman was the original Bush-class economist including Thomas Sowell, however the latter pertaining to Sowell’s view of Friedman has shifted due to the realizations mentioned earlier. It is good to see VDH set the record straight and articulate what is actually happening with this class warfare that many are unaware of.
Keep in mind, Milton Friedman was vociferously against tariffs of any kind. Friedman believed once the entire world was connected, all prices and economies would equalize, hence the term “Globalism”. The pain felt within the American economy was simply something that had to be endured until American wealth was distributed and the entire world was balanced, something that we are seeing with the funding of Ukraine’s military failed ambitions and the importation of millions of illegal aliens that is ultimately designed to destroy the American fabric of the working class.
An excellent book that is referenced to which Mike Rowe highlights
“The War on Warriors” by Pete Hegseth is another revelation that the staggering statistic of Whites who serve and die in the Military throughout the years is illuminated as being part of a larger paradigm that is almost deliberate with intent to kill off and eradicate the white population throughout the world. The latter mentioned is a basis to give impetus for a more broader discussion on this topic and what this coming up election really means. Are we too apathetic or indifferent to get out and vote to stop this class warfare? Or do you actually have a chance to turn the tables against the globalist who started this war on the working class? Love to hear you thoughts on this particular subject matter as it pertains to your own struggles amidst the current economic backdrop that most of us are dealing with.
