What Would You Do If You Wanted to Destroy the United States?

Words have been thrown about by both Republicans and Democrats about the other side trying to destroy “democracy.” Since the United States is a democratic republic and not a democracy, those words are false accusations. However, what would it look like if an individual or a group of individuals were trying to destroy the United States.

Victor Davis Hanson published an article at The Daily Signal suggesting an experiment: “What if you really wanted to destroy the United States? What if you’d had ill intention for America? What would you do? What agenda would you pursue?” 

And then I started thinking of civilizations. What was the stuff of civilizations that made them work? And it’s basic: their borders, their finances, their unity, their fuel, their food. So, if you really want to, in civilizational terms, destroy the United States, the first thing I would do if I were an enemy of the United States is I would destroy the borders.

In other words, I would just let anybody come across our version of the Rhine or the Danube, as they happened in fifth century. And that’s pretty much what we have done the last 40 years, but particularly, the last four years….

If you also wanted to hurt the United States, you know what I would do if I had nefarious intent? I would keep printing money. And I would call that, in fact, “Build Back Better.” And the more inflationary it got, I would say it was going to be the “inflationary Reduction Act.” And in that process, I would borrow maybe $7 trillion within four years, maybe $8 trillion, and add to an existing $38 trillion in national debt, $37 trillion, so that the interest per day would be $3 billion. That would really hurt the United States.

You know what I’d also do? If I looked at the United States and I said, “Oh my gosh, they’ve got almost limitless supplies of natural gas, they’ve got almost more coal than any European country, they’ve got all of this oil. They once had a vibrant – they were the nuclear energy, they were the founders of nuclear power. They have all these dams of hydroelectric,” I know what I’ll do. I will castigate all of that and say it makes either the environment too hot, global warming, or it ruins the natural landscape with dams. Or it will kill us all through radiation.

Whatever particular complaint I’d have, I would stop it as much as I could….

The third thing that I would do – and I think it’s besides debt and borders and fuel – I would sow disunity. And I would say that the content of our character is not as important as the color of our skin. And I would go back and reinterpret all of the hard-won progress of the civil rights movement and sort of get rid of it.

I would just say the color of our skin matters more than anything and so we’re going to hire on the basis of superficial appearance….

If I also wanted to create disunity, I would just say, from now on, after 7,000 years of civilization, there are three sexes, not two. And women’s sports must include biological males….

What am I getting at? It seems to me that in the last four years, if you had an agenda that was designed to hurt the United States, in terms of an influx of 12 million foreigners that were unaudited, an unprotected border, a repression on energy, a desire to print money rather than to cut expenses and save money and go toward a balanced budget, and a way to divide the people – if you want to do all that, you couldn’t have done a better job than what we have seen from 2021 to 2025.

I imagine that a lot of people were thinking the same things as Victor Davis Hanson. I know that I had similar thoughts as the various policies were made. For example, the Biden administration claimed that the border was secure when we could see through honest news reporting that it was not secure.

Then the administration told us that Biden did not have the authority to close the border but needed more legislation to do so. The Trump administration closed the border on their first day in office and without any new legislation.

Now Democrats and socialists are fighting to keep illegal immigrants in the United States, even though they are members of dangerous and vicious gangs who are bringing fentanyl and other drugs into America, trafficking human beings, and raping/killing our girls and young women.

In addition, Democrats and socialists are trying to hobble the Trump administration. They are trying to slow administrative actions down, so they cannot make America great/wealthy/safe/ healthy again.

Are Democrats and socialist just stupid, or are they truly attempting to destroy America? Are they enemies of America?