How California is mismanaged by the Democrats. No wonder so many are leaving the state.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Democrats in Charge
If you want to see what it looks like with Democrats in charge, just look at Chicago or Baltimore or the larger cities in California or the decline of New York City.
In fact, city life is becoming increasingly dangerous and unappealing. If you live in one, consider leaving, particularly if it is run by Democrats. And the widespread attack on police means that city life is likely to implode. Get out while you are still breathing.
Predators
Don’t kid yourself. We are all predators.
Democratic Party Platform
Call the other guy a racist and various other names. That’s it.
Gap Closing?
When will the gap between the real economy, which is in shambles, and the over–priced, sky-high stock market close? And will it close with a vengeance?
Are you going to be caught without a chair to sit in when the music stops?
Schitt’s Creek
Worth a few chuckles, unless you think it is beneath you.
Small Risk
The CDC recently put out information saying that the risk of the virus being fatal is very small for people younger than 60. The risk jumps for people in their 60s, and really takes off for people in their 70s. So it would seem reasonable that people less than, say, 45 years old should all go back to work since their risk that this virus could be fatal is minimal.
China
What China should do — click “China” below.
China
What would be interesting is if, at some point in this century, the government in China took on more democratic leanings. I’m not holding my breath, though. China with its history of having emperors falls naturally into the communist and totalitarian framework, that is, total control by a centralized government that suffers little influence from purely popular opinion.
So one has to consider what is the downside to such a government. What comes to mind immediately is the Stalinist repression that took place when Stalin became this hyper-paranoid leader. Then it was routine for people and whole families to simply disappear in the night, never to be seen or heard from again — erased from existence. We are already seeing something like this in the treatment by the Chinese government of everything Islamic — their “re-education centers” look strikingly like concentration camps to Westerners.
The good news about totalitarian regimes is that they can impose strict control quickly, and this pays off in terms of controlling such things as pandemics or re-directing a national economy in an entirely different direction. Witness the miracle of the Chinese economy in the last two decades, which has brought so many Chinese out of dire poverty into clear prosperity, but at what cost to their personal freedom, one might ask?
If the current totalitarian regime were really smart, it would create some kind of democratic vehicle, if only to stay abreast of current popular sentiment, so that it might be in a position to ameliorate such sentiment if it were headed in a dangerous direction. The ancient Roman government was tightly controlled by its Senate, but the Romans were smart enough to give a voice to popular opinion through Tribunes. Will China emulate this practice at some point in this century? That would be wise and exhibit flexibility, and as we are taught in Taoism, flexible things last, while rigid things, inevitably, crack and crumble.
Indoctrinated
People in their late 20s and 30s have been indoctrinated by our left-leaning universities but they don’t realize it. They are not used to debating both sides of an argument but prefer to just castigate anyone they don’t agree with. Self-righteous, they fall back on calling any opposition “hate speech,” just because it may contradict their ideological point of view.
When they get to their 40s and 50s and become the power brokers, that’s when the country will see real civil strife. The central part of the country and the South will revolt against their rigid, extremist views. That’s already happening but will reach critical mass when these leftist, college-educated people have greater influence. There’s already talk of a second civil war, which is kind of far fetched now, but perhaps not at some point in the future.
