Where the social contract between the governed and those governing is broken, the governed need to withdraw their consent to be governed.
For someone who just arrived from Mars, “blue” means democrat, and “red” means Republican.
I think of Duterte. I wondered what it meant, his talk about killing drug dealers etc. and I thought it didn’t directly translate into something we could do. But dang it, killing of drug dealers with extreme prejudice is probably the only thing that can turn Chicago around at this point. And Baltimore. St. Louis too.
Im surprised this article made it into the Beast.
The government of California treats the central valley like crap. They wont build infrastructure badly needed. The droughts are man made from lack of it. Farmers are often ruined from lack of water, and they seem to want to drive them out by not doing anything to fix it.
Written almost14 years ago, this book is still required reading Mexifornia: A State of Becoming by Victor Davis Hanson.
One of many points he makes is that the authorities leave the Mexicans alone and concentrate on the Americans as they are more able to pay the many fines that are imposed for "infractions".