Urban Chaos

Heard an interesting analysis by a guest on the Tucker Carlson Show last night describing why the urban chaos seems to be engulfing our country ... let me see it I can reproduce and expand on this inspired insight here:

Quite obviously unpunished violence, riots and looting are infecting many of our major formally-beautiful cities: Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Atlanta, New York (I have to stop ... I’m getting myself depressed.) Anyhow, this malignant dystopia is clearly spreading unchecked ... much even encourage by these cities’ burgers. This insanity is perplexing ... it long ago stopped being about George Floyd and black lives ... yet there is one possible explanation — Donald Trump’s winning the presidency was an existential shock to liberals ... a shock so extreme that it demanded retribution.

This retribution has taken many forms ... Obamagate, the Mueller witch-hunt, the Trump impeachment, the deep-state Resistance, the media’s spittle-flecked mania, the Cancel Culture, a political swing to the looney left (many otherwise sensible friends now declare themselves as Socialists), defunding the police ... and now the Clockwork Orange dystopia as described above. All these damaging memes were and are mis- and self-directed to atone somehow for the sin of Trump’s ascendency. And the punishers are trying to destroy not just Trump but, failing that, befouling that which Trump cherishes ... his country. (And they are also lashing out at those of us who voted him into office ... an easier target)

This is almost a mass psychosis but, if not that, it’s certainly a mass neurosis. If you will permit me an analogy ... all you agitated anti-Trumpers can be likened to disturbed teenagers who injure themselves with razor blades ... the “cutters” ...  because they (you?) can’t injure the real target of their (your?) rage ... the Orangeman ... so they (you?) injure themselves (yourselves?).  After all, what is much of  this “white privilege” sackcloth-and-ashes BS but a form of self-loathing.

You see, all this urban chaos might be simply explained!


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Artifices

The world that the major media outlets paint for America is an artifice ... an artifice with a comfortable connection to previous establishment constructs.

The world that Trump offers is also an artifice ... an uncomfortable reality that dismisses many tenets that we thought were sacrosanct ... and, claims he ... were leading our nation into a Clockwork-Orange dystopia ... such as we see in many Democrat-controlled urban areas. He has offered America a rocky path back to that shining city on the hill.

I like Trump’s illusion better.

Greta and Mom

From Powerline blog

The price of dystopia ...

Compassion

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, — Saint Bernard

There is a push in Massachusetts now to pay for poor people’s baby diapers. Who can be against such compassion? Me for one ... I’ll rather practice my compassion one on one. The welfare state keeps finding more ways of insinuating socialism into the commonweal. We give food stamps to indigents to help feed their children ... then we provide free school lunches ... then school breakfasts ... the meals for poor children when they aren’t in school. Free housing, free education, free health care, free cellphones, free everything. Why do we keep layering all these giveaways on top of previous giveaways? Is it compassion ... or is it vote buying?

Socialism is an insidious economic policy. It eats away at capitalism until it removes all incentives to excel ... and eventually it kills its host. Then we are Venezuela ... and the architects of this dystopia look around and say, “Not me!” Unless, of course, they have become part of the political elite ... and get the first ten bites at the apple ... ahead of all those souls for whom they once pretended to have such compassion.

I suppose we can write such greed off to human nature ... but, dear reader, the founders of our country understood this trope ... and that is why they designed things as they did. They wanted to protect America against the ruin spawned by hypocritical compassion. So far, their genius has helped us navigate almost 250 years of the corrosive efforts of the bleeding hearts among us.

The question then is, “How much longer can we hang on when virtually all Democrat candidates for president are so chock-a-block full of ersatz compassion.?” Hopefully the ghost of James Madison will intervene once again and keep the compassionate wolves at bay.

Imagine

John Lennon wrote a hymn to a perfect world where peace prevailed  and there were no borders defining countries ... see: Imagine lyrics. Clearly, Lennon's vision of utopia must have had some influence on world politics in the years that followed ... particularly in the European Union.

Fast forward some fifty years to the presidential election of 2016 and let's do some more imagining. Can we picture what our country would be like if Hillary Rodham Clinton had been elected? Who would likely be the primary players in her administration? Ben Rhodes? Susan Rice? Jonathan Gruber? James Comey? Sidney Blumenthal? John Brennan? John Kerry? Donna Brazile? John Podesta? James Clapper, Cheryl Mills? Maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

Imagine what the Supreme Court would look like? The FBI? The Department of Justice? The IRS? The EPA? The State Department? The Defense Department? Our representative to the UN? The regulation environment? Even the Clinton Foundation and all its tentacles might still exist ... as might the ISIS caliphate?

We would still be bending over for the environmentalists in the Paris Accord ... or maybe going even further. There would be no tax cuts or a rollback of the Obamacare individual mandate. We would still be in the TPP (no matter what Hillary said during her campaign). We would be even further along toward true open borders and unlimited immigration from third world countries. Jerusalem would not be recognized as the capital of Israel. Economic growth would still be anemic along with the stock market.

There would have been no exposure of all the (illegal?) Democrat shenanigans that took place during the presidential campaign. We would likely have a Democrat Senate and maybe even the House. North Korea and China would still have us kowtowed. Companies would not be bringing their factories back onshore. And many more positive developments would not have occurred.

We would be living in even more of a dystopia than Barack Obama saddled us with. Maybe Ted Nugent should pen a new version of "Imagine?"