Posted on 02/12/2024 5:07:24 AM PST by MtnClimber
In 2024—an election year—the left is trying to undo what it created without explaining why and what they did to us and themselves as well.
It is hard to destroy a naturally beautiful city like San Francisco, with ideal weather and stunning infrastructure inherited from far better earlier generations.
Yet San Francisco continues its much-publicized and self-inflicted doom loop. The productive classes still flee the increasingly crime-ridden city and its self-induced pathologies. The city is eroding not because of the doomsayers and not because of what people say about San Francisco, but because of what San Franciscans have done to San Francisco.
In 2023, more than 40,000 crimes were reportedly committed in San Francisco. The great majority of the perpetrators were either not arrested or never jailed, indicted, or convicted.
Downtown office vacancy rates exceed 35 percent—and are climbing. Tourists have ostracized the city, given the thousands of homeless that occupy sidewalks and downtown. San Francisco claimed to be on the cutting-edge of the woke green movement, proud that it had enacted the most stringent environmental laws and regulations in the world—except when it came to defecation, injection, and urination on the sidewalks, doorways, and parks and during storms, when the toxic, effluviant human waste escapes sewage treatment and flows into the once-cherished bay.
In a mere five years, the city went from being one of the most envied and wealthy in the world with a vibrant nightlife and new high-tech start-ups to a West-Cost Detroit.
Now billionaires are trying to heal San Francisco by returning it to the old normality in the era before the progressive city councils, the boards of supervisors, and mayors defunded the police, allowed the homeless to absorb the downtown, and promoted prosecutors who refused to enforce the laws.
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The intent was always to tear society down.
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If enough lefties were still buying it, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it?
And it’s stealing elections in the so-called blue states, too.
So evidence suggests that, yes, Virginia lefties can be taught.
Problem is that Deep State just imports more of them.
And the ones Deep State is now importing are likely uneducable.
Exactly. Without reading the article, one needs to understand that to the Left, whether Leftism works or not is irrelevant.
The goal of control is what really counts to them. How they get there is irrelevant.
If they had reasoning power, they wouldn’t be leftists. Ergo, they have no ability to learn...unless sent to Room 101 (which we should have done long ago).
The goal of control is what really counts to them.
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Bears repeating. Leftists will do anything for power. Lie, cheat, steal and kill, destroy. Loyal to no one and nothing, only power.
The communist globalists haven’t changed what they are they are just trying to avoid losing power in an election year. One the election is over they will double-down on evil because that is what they are.
It works well enough for the ones on the inside.
I think, for the most part, leftists are incorrigible. They are so ensconced in their worldview that they'll go through the motions of sanity to get out of the well they've dug for themselves, but once out, they'll quickly revert to the Utopia-building delusion which drives their every impulse.
In short, never trust a leftist. Ever.
Globalists are the ultimate anti freedom party.
They continue to destroy Western civilization.
What do they need to learn when winning?
Top news today- a rich white woman with no children at 35 years old and her sports playing boyfriend that is divorced from a black chick.
GIGO
Pard, I’m a former five alarm flaming lefty.
Attend a Trump rally.
You’ll meet a lot of us.
We’re why Deep State has to steal elections. 😀
The left knew exactly what it was doing and what the results would be. This effort is to knock America down because it’s “unjust”. The only problem is that the fraud in the elections might not be enough to push them over the finish line. They need some positive talking points. If diaper brain or any Dem is elected, the bad policies will continue. This is just a brief reprieve.
“The intent was always to tear society down”
What do you think “build back better” means?
Exactly like “Fundamentally change America”
Once again the left is telling us what they plan to do and the sheeple ignore it.....or are just plain ‘ol too damn dumb to understand how dire our situation is.
RACISM is the problem. No not anyone being racist but the charge of being “racist” brought against anyone that wants to enforce laws or decent behavior (as if blacks are not capable of doing so.)
The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and the law passed since then has created this mess. Individuals are being elected to high office based on their skin color, sexual orientation, or how “woke” they are. Being competent isn’t even considered.
What we are seeing is the Peter Principle on steroids. It seems that every institution in America is being ran by incompetent ideologues reminiscence of the old Soviet Union government where party loyalty was the most important thing, and we all know what happen with that form of government.
This is not the first time this has occurred in our nation. Look back to after the Civil War and what happen when “carpetbaggers” from the north moved into the political vaccumn in the south during reconstruction.
Basically, what it amounts to is this: Every single fad the Left engages in is idiotic and self destructive.
You can rest assured, their next luxury beliefs will be just as stupid, costly and self destructive as their last set of luxury beliefs. Yet they will push them with the same religious zeal the had when foisting the last set of idiocy on us all.
Its what they do.
So now in 2024—an election year—the left is trying to undo what it created without explaining why and what they did to us and themselves as well.
So suddenly, no one takes credit for the once wonderful, porous Biden border. Abruptly, the crossings are blamed on Trump—as if no one remembers Joe Biden’s 2019 performance-art boast for illegal aliens to “surge” the border and how he facilitated that advice over the next three years.
Abruptly, the Democrats insist that after three years and 8 million illegal aliens into the Biden administration, something must be done—perhaps even a rebranding of what worked in 2020 as their own.
Prof Hanson's look at the manipulators of modern society. Worthy of your time.
FR Index of his articles: Victor Davis Hanson on FR
Town Hall: Victor Davis Hanson on Town Hall
American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
His website: Victor Davis Hanson
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