dogmatic socialist established order is ending. We enter the age
of the Deplorables. The Deplorables are ascending in America,
with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of
Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the
antidote to arrogant globalist socialists. Deplorables
everywhere say “from now on we will make our own decisions.”
They are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will ultimately pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have far more to lose.
Deplorables Versus the Ruling Class: A Global Struggle
Consider the age of monarchs. Squabbling barons select a supreme ruler – a king or an emperor -- to suppress the squabbling. Peace and prosperity return to the land. The king makes policy but he can’t do everything. His minions take care of the details.
Minions mean bureaucracy. The bureaucracy grows. The king grows old and dies. The dynasty continues. The bureaucracy continues – always continues, and always grows. The bureaucracy becomes an establishment kingdom unto itself. The bureaucracy grows in power and serves its own interests. The king diminishes in power. The land grows restless under the increasing regulatory tyranny and taxes. Legitimacy –what the Chinese called the “mandate of heaven” -- is lost and so is the dynasty.
Change the names and we are at the end of a similar cycle – a cycle that began with the guillotine. This time it is a world-wide cycle. The modern king is a modern tyrant – Stalin, Hitler, Mao were the worst.
The socialist idea had been kicking around since the 18th century. This seemingly plausible notion shaped the various Marxist evils of the 20th century. The Soviet Union, Mao’s China, Nazism, Fascism, and today’s imperious European Union, are all socialist tyrannies of one degree or another.
Bureaucratic agencies become ideal tools for tyrants. A tyrant can point his agencies in a particular direction and unleash them. They immediately glory in their new power. Horrors ensue. Nazi Germany gave us the Holocaust and war. Stalin used betrayal. Friends betrayed friends. Children spied on parents. During the Soviet show trials of the 1930’s Stalin’s innocent victims were forced to falsely confess in order to save the lives of their families. Fear reigns.
Sound familiar? How about the FBI inducing General Flynn to plead guilty in order to protect his son? Mao injected dark comedy by unleashing hordes of children to humiliate their elders. No one was safe. Fear reigns. Sound familiar? Antifa anyone? Black Lives Matter anyone? Greta anyone? Mao lives!
The United States has become an undemocratic administrative state as well, but only by happenstance. In this country Congress has ceded much of its power to unchecked regulatory agencies, allowing them to write their own laws -- regulations which enable them to prosecute, and persecute, anyone who might stand in an agency’s way. The agencies are powers unto themselves -- judge, jury, and arresting police altogether. Innocents are often victims.
It isn’t just the regulatory, or administrative, state that is the problem. There is a growing sense that something is terribly wrong throughout society – throughout progressive liberal society, that is. How about needles in the street? How about sanctuary cities, counties and states? How about the ruins of Detroit? How about the weekly slaughter in Chicago? How about suppression of free speech in academia? How about the corrupt liberal media? How about big tech bias and censorship? It seems that our governments, and our intellectual establishments both, no longer serve the average citizen. They serve only a leftist political ideology, and themselves.
Worst of all, the political ideology that the establishment promotes is antithetical to the native ideology of America. America was founded as a society with spiritual values. True America is a society where the family is paramount. It is a society where a person is rewarded in proportion to his contribution. It is a society devoted to the individual where the individual is inherently free because his rights derive from the Creator not from the government. The purpose of government, according to the American ideology, is to serve the individual, not to be his master. The collection of individuals is to be the master of the government. This is classical liberalism – now a conservative ideal. It is the opposite of “progressive liberalism.”
The true American ideology cautions against granting power to any bureaucratic establishment. In its ever increasing hunger for power the establishment has gravitated to an alien progressive ideology – an ideology of ever bigger government and government control. But the bossy progressive Left increasingly forbids Americans to be Americans.
Political turmoil is the consequence. The barons are squabbling. The Left openly advocates overthrowing the Constitution. The Right counters with Donald Trump. The Left politically assassinates him with impeachment. The Right, with centrist allies, will reelect him anyway. The Mandate of Heaven has been removed from the elitist establishment. It is passing to the Deplorables.
It isn’t just in America. The world as a whole is pivoting. The dogmatic socialist established order is ending. We enter the age of the Deplorables. The Deplorables are ascending in America, with Trump, in Britain with Brexit, in Hong Kong, in much of Europe, in Latin America, in Iran. Deplorables are the antidote to arrogant globalist socialists. Deplorables everywhere say “from now on we will make our own decisions.”
Hong Kong Deplorables protest extradition bill (credit: Studio Incendo)
What is it with the Deplorables? What gives them such power? Three things, I believe, are elevating them. Deplorables are pragmatic. They are not wedded to any extreme ideology. Deplorables will go with anything that works. It is no wonder that the Deplorables began in America. For, as Americans we inherit the pragmatism of our pioneering ancestors.
Second, the Deplorables adhere to the original American ideology of free individuals. They reject the concentration of government power that has accumulated over the past century.
The third energizer is a technological miracle – the internet. Establishments everywhere fear the internet. And properly so. For the first time we can instantly communicate across the world. We can find like-minded people everywhere. We have discovered just how very many people agree with us.
It follows that Deplorables are no longer just an American phenomenon, the phenomenon resonates with people everywhere. People around the world are much the same. They value their traditions and customs. They value their families, their values, their spiritual heritage. They value their nation. They resent the imposition of intrusive government by strangers, by bureaucratic globalists. They are becoming Deplorables.
Born in the still free parts of America, this new movement seems destined to chart the course for the whole world -- for this century and beyond.
The Mandate of Heaven no longer rests with the condescending progressive bureaucratic establishment. It is passing back to the people. It is passing to Deplorables everywhere in the world.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of
illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions
of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs
benefit California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in
any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle
Class Americans Against ‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The
Republican Party must defend America’s working and middle class against
“concentrated corporate power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the
United States’ economy, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
Tucker
Carlson Exposes D.C. ‘Conservatives’ for Doing Big Tech’s Bidding
‘The Left Case Against Open Borders’: Liberal Author Pans
‘Useful Idiots of Big Business’
Progressives’
enthusiastic support for mass immigration has converted them into “useful
idiots” for the nation’s business elites, says a left-wing writer.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
*
"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly
three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
*
Two Americas: De Blasio's
Amazon vs. Trump's Walmart
Wal-Mart gave people what they want at a price they can afford.
Those “mom-and-pop” stores De Blasio champions were often inefficient,
opportunistic price-gougers. Walmart believed a fair wage was and is one agreed
upon between employee and employer. No one was forced to work or shop
there. It was efficient, innovative, successful, and non-union, and that
is why it was and is hated for all these reasons. It is the poster child for
roll-up-your-sleeves capitalism.
Report:
‘Impeachment’ Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/report-impeachment-billionaire-tom-steyer-prepares-to-launch-presidential-bid/
Spencer Platt / Getty
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent millions in the 2018
midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is
preparing to launch a campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
Democrat Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
DEMOCRACY
DIES IN A LEFTIST COUP
The best midterms that San Francisco donors
could buy.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals
were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6
million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AS
WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s
Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF
WEALTH TO THE RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters,
Billionaires and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
Class Conflict within the
Democratic Party
Of the fifty
wealthiest congressional districts throughout the country, the Democrats
now represent forty-one. Of the remaining nine represented by Republicans,
three are in Texas, the only red state on the list of fifty districts. Not
coincidentally the residents of these same fifty districts are supposedly among
the most well-educated and sophisticated. This transformative process is
not a recent phenomenon as the trend began in the 1980’s and accelerated
rapidly in the early 2000’s.
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the creation of a
one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg,
claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to
support such an assertion. As the CIS has documented, the vast majority of
illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions
of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs
benefit California’s economy? If illegals were contributing to the economy in
any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6 million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE
BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Josh Hawley: GOP Must Defend Middle
Class Americans Against ‘Concentrated Corporate Power,’ Tech Billionaires
JOHN BINDER
The
Republican Party must defend America’s working and middle class against
“concentrated corporate power” and the monopolization of entire sectors of the
United States’ economy, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) says.
In an interview on The Realignment podcast,
Hawley said that “long gone are the days where” American workers can depend on
big business to look out for their needs and the needs of their communities.
Instead, Hawley explained that increasing “concentrated
corporate power” of whole sectors of the American economy — specifically among
Silicon Valley’s giant tech conglomerates — is at the expense of working and
middle class Americans.
“One of the things Republicans need to recover today is a
defense of an open, free-market, of a fair healthy competing market and the
length between that and Democratic citizenship,” Hawley said, and continued:
At the end of the day, we are trying to support and sustain here
a great democracy. We’re not trying to make a select group of people rich.
They’ve already done that. The tech billionaires are already billionaires, they
don’t need any more help from government. I’m not interested in trying to help
them further. I’m interested in trying to help sustain the great middle of this
country that makes our democracy run and that’s the most important challenge of
this day.
“You have these businesses who for years now have said ‘Well,
we’re based in the United States, but we’re not actually an American company,
we’re a global company,'” Hawley said. “And you know, what has driven profits
for some of our biggest multinational corporations? It’s been … moving jobs
overseas where it’s cheaper … moving your profits out of this country so you
don’t have to pay any taxes.”
“I think that we have here at the same time that our economy has
become more concentrated, we have bigger and bigger corporations that control
more and more of our key sectors, those same corporations see themselves as
less and less American and frankly they are less committed to American workers
and American communities,” Hawley continued. “That’s turned out to be a problem
which is one of the reasons we need to restore good, healthy, robust
competition in this country that’s going to push up wages, that’s going to
bring jobs back to the middle parts of this country, and most importantly, to
the middle and working class of this country.”
While multinational corporations monopolize industries, Hawley
said the GOP must defend working and middle class Americans and that big
business interests should not come before the needs of American communities:
A free market is one where you can enter it, where there are new
ideas, and also by the way, where people can start a small family business, you
shouldn’t have to be gigantic in order to succeed in this country. Most people
don’t want to start a tech company. [Americans] maybe want to work in
their family’s business, which may be some corner shop in a small town …
they want to be able to make a living and then give that to their kids or give
their kids an option to do that. [Emphasis added]
The problem with corporate concentration is that it tends to
kill all of that. The worst thing about corporate concentration is that it
inevitably believes to a partnership with big government. Big business and
big government always get together, always. And that is exactly what has
happened now with the tech sector, for instance, and arguably many other
sectors where you have this alliance between big government and big business …
whatever you call it, it’s a problem and it’s something we need to address.
[Emphasis added]
Hawley blasted the free trade-at-all-costs doctrine that has
dominated the Republican and Democrat Party establishments for decades,
crediting the globalist economic model with hollowing “out entire industries,
entire supply chains” and sending them to China, among other countries.
“The thing is in this country is that not only do we not make
very much stuff anymore, we don’t even make the machines that make the stuff,”
Hawley said. “The entire supply chain up and down has gone overseas, and a lot
of it to China, and this is a result of policies over some decades now.”
As Breitbart News reported, Hawley detailed in the interview
how Republicans like former President George H.W. Bush’s ‘New World Order’
agenda and Democrats have helped to create a corporatist economy that
disproportionately benefits the nation’s richest executives and donor class.
The billionaire class, the top 0.01 percent of earners, has
enjoyed more than 15 times as
much wage growth as the bottom 90 percent since 1979. That economy has been
reinforced with federal rules that largely benefits the wealthiest of
wealthiest earners. A study released last month
revealed that the richest Americans are, in fact, paying a lower tax rate than
all other Americans.
Tucker
Carlson Exposes D.C. ‘Conservatives’ for Doing Big Tech’s Bidding
Rich
Polk/Getty
21 Dec 20190
3:53
Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed establishment conservatives
for taking money from big tech companies to do their bidding, on Tucker
Carlson Tonight, Friday night.
The popular host, known for his no-holds-barred denunciations of
establishment conservatives as well as Democrats, revealed massive spending by
the establishment conservative Koch Foundation to protect big tech in Washington.
Tucker revealed that Americans for Prosperity, a “purportedly
conservative group” controlled by the Kochs, launched an ad campaign trying to
stave off the closing net of antitrust enforcement against Google and Facebook.
The ads targeted Republican and Democrat state attorneys general that were
investigating alleged antitrust violations by big tech companies.
The Koch-funded group also targeted members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee with digital ads urging them to “oppose any effort to use
antitrust laws to break up America’s innovative tech companies,” reported
Carlson.
The Fox host ran through a laundry list of allegedly
“conservative” D.C. think tanks that take money from big tech, and often
advocate against regulating them over political bias or any other matter.
“In all, the Koch network quietly spent at least $10 million
defending Silicon Valley companies that work to silence conservatives.”
Tucker Carlson
Slamming Conservative Inc. for Defending Big Tech
Tucker Calls Out
-Kochs
-Heritage Foundation
-American Conservative Union
-AEI
"Big Tech Companies silence Conservatives, Conservative Non-Profits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it."
Tucker Calls Out
-Kochs
-Heritage Foundation
-American Conservative Union
-AEI
"Big Tech Companies silence Conservatives, Conservative Non-Profits try to prevent the government from doing anything about it."
“Google has given money to at least 22 right-leaning
institutions that are also funded by the Koch network,” reported Carlson.
“Those institutions include the American Conservative Union, the
American Enterprise Institute, the National Review Institute, the Competitive
Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Mercatus Center.”
Carlson explained that this spending gets results.
“In September of 2018, the Competitive Enterprise Institute and
three other groups funded by Google and the Kochs sent a joint letter to
the Attorney General at the time, Jeff Sessions, expressing grave concerns over
the DoJ’s plans to look into whether search engines and social media were
hurting competition and stifling speech.”
Carlson also called out The Heritage Foundation, arguing that
its shilling for big tech meant that it “no longer represents the interest of
conservatives, at least on the question of tech.”
“A recent paper by Heritage,
entitled ‘Free Enterprise Is
the Best Remedy For Online Bias Concerns,’ defends the special
privileges that Congress has given to left-wing Silicon Valley monopolies. And
if conservatives don’t like it, Heritage says, well they can just start their
own Google!”
Evidence of big tech’s efforts to
co-opt establishment conservatives has been accumulating for some time. In
March, Breitbart News published leaked audio from a senior director of public policy
at Google, talking about using funding of
conservative institutions to “steer” the movement. Another part of the leaked
audio transcript was also revealed on Tucker Carlson’s show at the same time.
The Heritage Foundation has continued to defend big tech against efforts to strip them of
their special legal privileges, which were given
to them by Congress in the 1990s and are enjoyed by no other type of company.
This is despite the fact that Google
publicly snubbed the foundation last year, canceling the formation of a planned
“A.I ethics” council after far-left employees of the tech company threw a hissy fit over the fact
that Heritage president Kay Coles James was set to be one of its members.
Are you an insider at Google, Facebook, Twitter or any other
tech company who wants to confidentially reveal wrongdoing or political bias at
your company? Reach out to Allum Bokhari at his secure email address allumbokhari@protonmail.com.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at
Breitbart News.
In truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom,
with the
nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared
with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half
of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San
Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major
cities.
December 20, 2019
California
Preening
The Golden
State is on a path to high-tech feudalism, but there’s still time to change
course.
“We are
the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta.
California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta,” declared then-governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007. “Not only can we lead California into the future
. . . we can show the nation and the world how to get there.” When a movie star
who once played Hercules says so who’s to disagree? The idea of California as a
model, of course, precedes the former governor’s tenure. Now the state’s
anti-Trump resistance—in its zeal on matters concerning climate, technology, gender, or
race—believes that it knows how to create a just, affluent, and enlightened
society. “The future depends on us,” Governor Gavin Newsom said at his
inauguration. “And we will seize this moment.”
In
truth, the Golden State is becoming a semi-feudal kingdom, with the
nation’s widest gap between middle and upper incomes—72 percent, compared
with the U.S. average of 57 percent—and its highest poverty rate. Roughly half
of America’s homeless live in Los Angeles or San
Francisco, which now has the highest property crime rate among major
cities. California
hasn’t yet become a full-scale dystopia, of course, but it’s heading in a
troubling direction.
This
didn’t have to happen. No place on earth has more going for it than the Golden
State. Unlike the East Coast and Midwest, California benefited from
comparatively late industrialization, with an economy based less on auto
manufacturing and steel than on science-based fields like aerospace, software,
and semiconductors. In the mid-twentieth century, the state also gained from
the best aspects of progressive rule, culminating in an elite public university
system, a massive water system reminiscent of the Roman Empire, and a vast
infrastructure network of highways, ports, and bridges. The state was
fortunate, too, in drawing people from around the U.S. and the world. The
eighteenth-century French traveler
J. Hector St. John de CrèvecÅ“ur described the American as “this new man,”
and California—innovative, independent, and less bound by tradition or old
prejudice—reflected that insight. Though remnants of this California still
exist, its population is aging, less mobile, and more pessimistic, and its
roads, schools, and universities are in decline.
In the second half of the
twentieth century, California’s remarkably diverse economy spread prosperity
from the coast into the state’s inland regions. Though pockets of severe
poverty existed—urban barrios, south Los Angeles, the rural Central Valley—they
were limited in scope. In fact, growth often favored
suburban and exurban communities, where middle-class families, including
minorities, settled after World War II.
In the
last two decades, the state has adopted policies that undermine the basis for
middle-class growth. State energy policies, for example, have made California’s
gas and electricity prices among the steepest in the country. Since 2011,
electricity prices have risen five
times faster than the national average. Meantime, strict land-use
controls have raised housing costs to the nation’s highest, while taxes—once
average, considering California’s urban scale—now exceed
those of virtually every state. At the same time, California’s economy has shed
industrial diversity in favor of dependence on one industry: Big Tech. Just a
decade before, the state’s largest firms included those in the aerospace,
finance, energy, and service industries. Today’s 11 largest companies hail from
the tech sector, while energy firms—excluding Chevron, which has moved much of
its operations to Houston—have disappeared. Not a
single top aerospace firm—the iconic industry of twentieth-century
California—retains its headquarters here.
Though
lionized in the press, this tech-oriented economy hasn’t resulted in that many
middle- and high-paying job opportunities for Californians, particularly
outside the Bay Area. Since 2008, notes Chapman University’s Marshall
Toplansky, the state has created five times the number of low-paying, as
opposed to high-wage, jobs. A remarkable 86 percent of new jobs paid below the
median income, while almost half paid under $40,000. Moreover, California,
including Silicon Valley, created fewer high-paying positions than the national
average, and far less than prime competitors like Salt Lake City, Seattle, or
Austin. Los Angeles County features the lowest pay of any of the nation’s 50
largest counties.
No state advertises its
multicultural bona fides more than California, now a majority-minority state.
This is evident at the University
of California, where professors are required to prove their service to “people
of color,” to the state’s high
school curricula, with its new ethnic studies component. Much of California’s
anti-Trump resistance has a racial context. State Attorney General Xavier
Becerra has sued the administration numerous times over immigration policy
while he helps ensure California’s distinction as a sanctuary for illegal
immigrants. So far, more than 1 million
illegal residents have received driver’s licenses, and they qualify for free
health care, too. San Francisco now permits illegal immigrants to vote
in local elections.
Such
radical policies may make progressives feel better about themselves, though
they seem less concerned about how these actions affect everyday people.
California’s Latinos and African-Americans have seen good blue-collar jobs in
manufacturing and energy vanish. According to one United
Way study,
over half of Latino households can barely pay their bills. “For Latinos,” notes
long-time political consultant Mike
Madrid,
“the California Dream is becoming an unattainable fantasy.”
In the
past, poorer Californians could count on education to help them move up. But
today’s educators appear more interested in political indoctrination than
results. Among the 50 states, California ranked 49th
in the performance of low-income students. In wealthy San Francisco, test
scores for
black students are the worst of any California county. Many minority residents,
especially African-Americans, are fleeing the state. In a recent UC Berkeley
poll, 58 percent of black expressed interest in leaving California, a higher
percentage than for any racial group, though approximately 45 percent of Asians
and Latinos also considered moving out.
Perhaps
the biggest demographic disaster is generational. For decades, California
incubated youth
culture,
creating trends like beatniks, hippies, surfers, and Latino and Asian art,
music, and cuisine. The state is a fountainhead of youthful
wokeness and rebellion, but that may prove short-lived as millennials leave. From
2014 to 2018, notes demographer Wendell Cox, net domestic out-migration grew
from 46,000 to 156,000. The exiles are increasingly in their family-formation
years. In the 2010s, California suffered higher net declines in virtually every
age category under 54, with the biggest rate of loss coming among the 35-to-44
cohort.
As
families with children leave, and international migration slows to one-third of
Texas’s level, the remaining population is rapidly aging. Since 2010,
California’s fertility rate has dropped 60 percent, more than the national
average; the state is now aging 50 percent more rapidly than the rest of the
country. A growing number of tech firms and millennials have headed to
the Intermountain
West.
Low rates of homeownership among younger people play a big role in this trend,
with California millennials forced to rent,
with little chance of buying their own home, while many of the state’s biggest
metros lead
the nation in long-term owners. California is increasingly a greying refuge for
those who bought property when housing was affordable.
After Governor
Schwarzenegger morphed into a progressive environmentalist, climate concerns
began driving state policy. His successors have embraced California
“leadership” on climate issues. Jerry Brown recently
told a
crowd in China that the rest of the world should follow California’s example.
The state’s top Democrats, like state senate president pro tem Kevin DeLeon,
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti, and billionaire Democratic presidential
candidate Tom Steyer, now compete for the green
mantle.
Their
policies have worsened
conditions for
many middle- and working-class Californians. Oblivious to these concerns,
Greens ignore practical ideas—nuclear power, natural gas cars, job creation in
affordable areas, home-based work—that could help reduce emissions without
disrupting people’s lives. Ultra-green policies also work against the
state’s proclaimed goal of building more
than 3.5 million new housing units by 2025. In accordance with its efforts to
reduce car use, the state mandates that most growth occurs in already-crowded
coastal areas, where land prices are highest. But in cities like San Francisco,
the cost of building
one unit for
a homeless person surpasses $700,000. California’s inland regions, though
experiencing population gains, keep losing state
funding for decrepit
highways in
favor of urban-centric, mass transit projects—yet transit use has stagnated,
especially in greater
Los Angeles.
The
state, nevertheless, continues its pursuit of policies that would eliminate all
fossil fuels and nuclear power—outpacing national or even Paris Accord levels
and guaranteeing ever-rising energy prices. Mandating everything from electric
cars to
electric homes will only drive more working-class Californians into “energy
poverty.” High energy prices also directly affect the manufacturing and
logistics firms that employ blue-collar workers at decent wages. Business
relocation expert Joe
Vranich notes
that industrial firms account for many of the 2,000 employers that left the
state this decade. California’s industrial growth has fallen to the
bottom tier of states; last year, it ranked 44th, with a rate of growth one-third to
one-quarter that of prime competitors like Texas, Virginia, Arizona, Nevada,
and Florida.
Similarly,
the high energy prices tend to hit the interior counties that, besides being
poorer, have far less temperate climates. Cities like Bakersfield, capital of the state’s
once-vibrant oil industry, are particularly hard-hit. High energy prices will
cost the region, northeast of the Los Angeles Basin, 14,000 generally high-paid
jobs, even as the state continues to import
oil from Saudi Arabia.
California’s
leaders apply climate change to excuse virtually every failure of state policy.
During the California drought, Brown and his minions
blamed the “climate” for the dry period, refusing to take responsibility
for insufficient
water storage that would have helped farmers. When the rains returned and
reservoirs filled, this argument was forgotten, and little effort has been made
to conserve water for next time. Likewise, Newsom and his supporters
in the
media have
blamed recent fires on changes in the global climate, but the disaster had as
much to do with green mandates against controlled burns and brush
clearance than
anything occurring on a planetary scale. Brown joined greens
and others in blocking such
sensible policies.
Few climate
advocates ever seem to ask if their policies actually help the planet. Indeed,
California’s green policy, as one
paper demonstrates,
may be increasing total greenhouse-gas emissions by pushing people and
industries to states with less mild climates. In the past decade, the state
ranked 40th in per-capita reductions, and its global carbon footprint is
minimal. Renewable energy may be expensive and unreliable, but state
policy nevertheless enriches the green-energy
investments of tech
leaders,
even when their efforts—like the Google-backed Ivanpah
solar farm—fail
to deliver affordable, reliable energy.
It’s not so surprising,
given these enthusiasms, that progressive politicians like Garcetti—who leads a city with
paralyzing traffic congestion, rampant inequality, a huge
rat infestation, and proliferating homeless camps—would rather talk about
becoming chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.
Reality
is asserting itself, though. Tech firms already show signs of restlessness with
the current regulatory regime and appear to be shifting employment
to other states, notably Texas, Tennessee, Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. Economic-modeling
firm Emsi estimates
that several states—Idaho, Tennessee, Washington, and Utah—are growing their
tech employment faster than California. The state is losing momentum in
professional and technical services—the largest high-wage sector—and now stands
roughly in the middle of the pack behind other western states such as Texas,
Tennessee, and Florida. And Assembly Bill 5, the state law regulating certain
forms of contract
labor,
reclassifies part-time workers. Aimed initially at ride-sharing giants Uber and Lyft, the legislation also
extends to independent contractors in industries from media to trucking.
At some
point, as even Brown noted, the
ultra-high capital gains returns will fall and, combined with the costs of an
expanding welfare state, could leave the state in fiscal chaos. Big Tech could
stumble, a possibility made more real by the recent
$100 billion drop in the value of privately held “unicorn” companies,
including WeWork. If the tech economy slows, a rift could develop between two
of the state’s biggest forces—unions and the green establishment—over future
levels of taxation. More than two-thirds
of California cities don’t have any funds set aside for retiree health care and
other retirement expenses. The state also confronts $1 trillion in pension
debt, according to former Democratic state senator Joe
Nation. U.S. News & Report ranks California, despite the tech boom,
42nd in fiscal health among the states.
The good
news: some Californians are waking up. A
recent PPIC poll found that increasing proportions of Californians believe
that the state is headed in the wrong direction—a figure that exceeds 55
percent in the inland areas. And voters dislike the
state legislature even more than they dislike Donald Trump. Newsom’s approval rating stands at 43
percent,
placing him toward the bottom among the nation’s governors. A conservative-led
campaign to
recall him is unlikely to succeed, but surveys reveal growing opposition
to the new tax hikes proposed by the legislature. There’s a growing concern about
the state’s expanding homeless population.
And a
rebellion against the state’s energy policies is already under way.
Recently, 110
cities,
with total population exceeding 8 million, have demanded changes in
California’s drive to prevent new natural gas hookups. The state’s Chamber of
Commerce and the three
most prominent ethnic chambers—African-American, Latino, and Asian-Pacific—have
joined this effort.
Californians
need less bombast and progressive pretense from their leaders and more
attention to policies that could counteract the economic and demographic tides
threatening the state. On its current course, California increasingly resembles
a model of what the late Taichi Sakaiya called “high-tech feudalism,” with a
small population of wealthy residents and a growing mass of modern-day serfs.
Delusion and preening ultimately have limits, as more Californians are
beginning to recognize. As the 2020s beckon, the time for the state to change
course is now.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
Their banksters and billionaires demand wider open borders to keep
wages depressed
"This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never be exposed
to the cost of the invasion of millions of migrants. They have
nothing but contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our
communities being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
‘The Left Case Against Open Borders’: Liberal Author Pans
‘Useful Idiots of Big Business’
22 Nov 20188
5:13
Progressives’
enthusiastic support for mass immigration has converted them into “useful
idiots” for the nation’s business elites, says a left-wing writer.
Today’s well-intentioned
activists have become the useful idiots of big business. With their adoption of
“open borders” advocacy—and a fierce moral absolutism that regards
any limit to migration as an unspeakable evil—any criticism of the
exploitative system of mass migration is effectively dismissed as blasphemy.
Even solidly leftist politicians, like Bernie Sanders in the United States and
Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, are accused of “nativism” by critics if
they recognize the legitimacy of borders or migration restriction at any
point. This open borders radicalism ultimately benefits the elites
within the most powerful countries in the world, further disempowers organized
labor, robs the developing world of desperately needed professionals, and turns
workers against workers.
Nagle also argues that mass
immigration operates extracts human talent from developing societies for
the benefit of wealthy, comfortable U.S. elites:
Advocates of open borders often
overlook the costs of mass migration for developing countries. Indeed,
globalization often creates a vicious cycle: liberalized trade policies destroy
a region’s economy, which in turn leads to mass emigration from that area, further
eroding the potential of the origin country while depressing wages for the
lowest paid workers in the destination country. One of the major causes of
labor migration from Mexico to the United States has been the economic and
social devastation caused by the North American Free Trade Agreement
(nafta). Nafta forced Mexican farmers to compete with U.S.
agriculture, with disastrous consequences for Mexico. Mexican imports doubled,
and Mexico lost thousands of pig farms and corn growers to U.S. competition. When
coffee prices fell below the cost of production, nafta prohibited
state intervention to keep growers afloat. Additionally, U.S.
companies were allowed to buy infrastructure in Mexico, including,
for example, the country’s main north-south rail line. The railroad then
discontinued passenger service, resulting in the decimation of the rail
workforce after a wildcat strike was crushed. By 2002, Mexican wages had
dropped by 22 percent, even though worker productivity increased by 45 percent.7 In regions like Oaxaca,
emigration devastated local economies and communities, as men emigrated to work
in America’s farm labor force and slaughterhouses, leaving behind women,
children, and the elderly.
Left-wing servants of business
elites spray claims of racism on the public to suppress their rational and
reasonable opposition to immigration exploitation, Nagle argues:
The immigration expansionists
have two key weapons. One is the big business and financial interests all
working on their side, but an equally powerful weapon—wielded more
expertly by the left-leaning immigration expansionists—is moral
blackmail and public shame. People are right to see the mistreatment of
migrants as morally wrong. Many people are concerned about the growth of racism
and callousness toward minorities that often accompanies anti-immigration
sentiment. But the open borders position does not even live up to its own
professed moral code.
The tacit alliance of the
wealthy against the middle prompt some invective by the Irish author;
In the wealthiest nations, open
borders advocacy seems to function as a fanatical cult among
true believers—a product of big business and free market lobbying is
carried along by a larger group of the urban creative, tech, media, and
knowledge economy class, who are serving their own objective class interests by
keeping their transient lifestyles cheap and their careers intact as they
parrot the institutional ideology of their industries. The truth is that mass
migration is a tragedy, and upper-middle-class moralizing about it is a farce.
Perhaps the ultra-wealthy can afford to live in the borderless world they
aggressively advocate for, but most people need—and want—a coherent,
sovereign political body to defend their rights as citizens.
The establishment’s economic policy
of using migration to boost economic growth shifts wealth from young people
towards older people by flooding the market
with cheap white-collar and blue-collar foreign labor. That flood of outside
labor spikes profits and Wall Street
values by cutting salaries for manual
and skilled labor offered by blue-collar
and white-collar employees.
The policy also drives up real estate
prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech
investment, increases state and
local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from
high-tech careers, and sidelines at least five million marginalized Americans and
their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid
addictions.
Immigration also pulls investment
and wealth away from heartland states because coastal investors can more easily
hire and supervise the large immigrant populations living in the coastal
states.
AMERICA UNRAVELS:
Millions of children go hungry as the super- rich gorge themselves
and ILLEGALS SUCK IN BILLIONS IN WELFARE!
*
"The top 10 percent of Americans now own roughly
three-quarters of all household wealth."
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/america-unravels-millions-of-children.html
*
"While
telling workers there is “not enough money” for wage increases, or to fund
social programs, both parties hailed the recent construction of the U.S.S.
Gerald Ford, a massive aircraft carrier that cost $13 billion to build,
stuffing the pockets of numerous contractors and war profiteers."
Two Americas: De Blasio's
Amazon vs. Trump's Walmart
That the Democrat Party is
now the party of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the
occasional Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone
like Illinois’ new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’
financial collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to
persist until he runs out of other people’s money:
John Edwards once spoke of
“two Americas,” one “for all of those people who have lived the American
dream and don't have to worry, and another for most Americans, everybody else
who struggle to make ends meet every single day”. One is reminded of this by
New York City mayor Bill De Blasio’s full-throated shouting of “socialism for
all” from the rooftops of buildings whose height his
politburo would determine and whose rents and occupants his commissars would
control.
Mayor
Bill de Blasio cited his "socialistic impulse" in describing an ideal
world where New York City government has control over all land and buildings in
his city.
“I
think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the
city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it
will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be,” de Blasio said in
a wide-ranging
interview with New York Magazine. “I think there’s a
socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community that
they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs.”
To each according to their
needs -- gee, where have we heard that before? One would be willing to believe
De Blasio’s socialistic impulses arises out of genuine, if wrongheaded, concern
for the working poor and the middle class, the people the Democrat “party of
compassion” is allegedly the champion of, if it were not for De
Blasio’s support for what some would call corporate welfare, welcoming
cash-rich and taxpayer-subsidized Amazon’s new HQ to New York City while
closing its borders to a Walmart invasion.
A listener asked just what
the difference was between the two retail giants during the
mayor’s weekly guest spot on WNYC radio:
“Amazon
is… part of the American economy,” he continued. “I would ask every good
progressive, every listener out there who has a concern about Amazon: How many
are using Amazon as part of their daily lives? Whatever you like or dislike
about Amazon, Walmart is an entirely different universe in terms of the efforts
they’ve undertaken to not only undermine labor, small business, the
environment… and obviously the politics of [Walmart’s owners] the Walton family
to add to it,” referring to the Waltons’ track record of funneling megabucks to
conservative causes.
Funny that De Blasio has no
objection to the likes of billionaires Tom Steyer, Oprah Winfrey, and George
Soros funneling big bucks to liberal candidates and causes. One of the
takeaways from the 2018 midterms was the morphing of the Democrats to the party
of the rich as those stinky Walmart shoppers lined up at Trump rallies. The GOP
is now the party of the working class, or the deplorable bitter-clingers of
Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Hussein Obama’s disdain. As deep state coup
architect Peter Strzok
infamously said in a text message to fellow agent Lisa Page:
“Just
went to a southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.”
Who wants Walmart greeters
and cashiers moving to New York when you can have the high-rollers who work for
Amazon? Amazon promises to deliver 25,000 jobs with an average salary of
$150,000, which is a lot more than the average Walmart greeter or cashier
makes.
Founded as a single
five-and-dime store in a small Arkansas town, its success story mirrors
America’s. It is a poster child for capitalism and the American dream. It is
ironic that Wal-Mart critics, who have long complained its employees live
paycheck to paycheck, forget that many of its customers also live paycheck to
paycheck, and seek quality merchandise at decent prices. They opposed “low”
wages for Wal-Mart employees while in effect supporting higher prices for
Wal-Mart customers.
That the Democrat Party is
now the party of the rich is increasingly seen in its candidates. Forget the
occasional Ocasio-Cortez. A Democrat candidate is more likely to be someone
like Illinois’ new governor, J.B. Pritzer, who promises to complete Illinois’
financial collapse with single-payer insurance and a progressive income tax,
promising to
persist until he runs out of other people’s money:
This
month saw the election of Jay Robert "J.B." Pritzker as governor of
Illinois. Pritzker, an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, is worth an estimated
$3.2 billion, and spent $171.5 million to get himself elected, according to Money magazine.
Another
winner was Edward M. "Ned" Lamont Jr., in the Connecticut governor's
race. Lamont, an heir to the J.P. Morgan banking fortune of his
great-grandfather Thomas Lamont, estimated his assets in
2006 at between $90 million and $300 million, and showed reporters tax returns last
month with income totaling $18 million over 5 years.
The
winner of the election for governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, filed
financial disclosure forms
as a member of the House of Representatives indicating estimated wealth of more
than $300 million.
Pritzker,
Lamont, and Polis are all Democrats…
Somehow,
the wealth of Pritzker, Lamont, and Polis has gotten less attention, perhaps
because it doesn't so easily fit the country-club Republican stereotype.
Instead of writing about the limousine liberals who are so rich they make the
Trump cabinet look like a bunch of paupers, the press has been obsessing about
how a newly elected congresswoman from the Bronx, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
can't afford to rent a place in Washington until she starts collecting her
congressional salary.
The socialism of the coastal
elites of which De Blasio is a leader is akin to the old Soviet politburo who
lived very well as they dictated what could be built and where, what people
would make and where and how they would live. Everyone was equal but some were
more equal than others.
I reject the Democrat Party
of the rich in favor of the GOP party of the working poor and the middle class,
the deplorable bitter clingers. God, how I love the smell of Walmart in the
morning.
Daniel John Sobieski is
a free lance writer whose pieces have appeared inInvestor’s
Business Daily, Human
Events, Reason Magazine and the ChicagoSun-Times among other
publications.
Report:
‘Impeachment’ Billionaire Tom Steyer Prepares to Launch Presidential Bid
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/19/report-impeachment-billionaire-tom-steyer-prepares-to-launch-presidential-bid/
19 Nov 20184,609
2:17
Left-wing billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent millions in the 2018
midterm elections pushing for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, is
preparing to launch a campaign for president in 2020, according to Politico.
The former billionaire investor, climate activist and
impeachment agitator Tom Steyer will take several steps toward a 2020
presidential bid Tuesday.
That will include a six-figure web ad buy on Twitter, Facebook,
YouTube, and Instagram along with a full-page ad in USA Today and other Gannett
newspapers outlining a political platform, a revamped TomSteyer.com, and the
announcement of five town halls across the country, the first of which will be
in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina, according to copies of
the ad and platform provided to POLITICO.
The first town hall is set for Dec. 4 in Charleston, S.C., and
the next will be in Fresno, Calif., sometime in December, according to Aleigha
Cavalier, senior communications adviser for TomSteyer.com who also works for
Steyer’s climate-focused group NextGen America. There will be one town hall for
each of the “5 rights” on Steyer’s platform: the right to an equal vote, to
clean air and water, to learn with pre-K education through college, to a living
wage, and to health.
Steyer has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on other
Democrats’ campaigns in recent years. He was the party’s top donor in 2014 —
buying few wins but allowing him to force the party to stage an all-night talk
session about climate change on the Senate floor.
In 2018, he
spent over $100 million on an effort to push for impeachment, reinforcing that message the day
after the election in a New
York Times op-ed.
Joel
B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the
2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author
of How
Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from
Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
DEMOCRAT PARTY CORRUPTION
"This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never
be exposed to the downside of the invasion of millions of migrants, the
crime or the financial burden. They have nothing but contempt
for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities being
intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us." PATRICIA
McCARTHY
Democrat Corruption is a Clear and Present Danger to America
On
November 6, it seemed the Republicans might hold their majority in the Senate
and in the House. Sadly, they lost their majority in the House. The
mystery is why so many Democrat candidates who are so obviously ethically
challenged won in races that should not have even been close.
How and why do Democrats continue to vote for unqualified,
dishonest candidates? Elizabeth Warren is a proven liar, a cheat who
claimed Native American heritage in order to get a job at
Harvard. Her baby, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was her
plan to wield control over all bank and non-bank institutions without
Congressional interference. In short, she is a hard-left socialist who
means to control how Americans earn, spend and borrow money, how they use their
savings. Warren is a blight on the Constitution and the guaranteed
freedoms of US citizens. She is an advance operative for the socialist America
the left envisions.
Andrew
Gillum, the left's choice to be Governor of Florida, is the failed mayor of
Tallahassee. He remains
under FBI investigation for
corruption. Given the information about that investigation that has
been released, he appears yet another greedy and corrupt Democrat pol in the
Hillary Clinton mold. The stability of Tallahassee declined
catastrophically under his leadership; crime
and murder rose drastically.
Gillum
sold out his city for money, and cries racism when confronted with his
crimes. He should never have been the candidate for the Governor of
Florida but the left cares only about race and power, not ethics or
honor. For progressives, race trumps everything else, even
character. If Gillum wins after the cheating Broward County is
infamous for, Florida will suffer the slings and arrows that are inevitable
under politicians like Gillum. Why was this race even
close? Have half the nation's voters scuttled any semblance
of traditional values in order to win? Yes.
Then there is Robert Menendez, the credibly accused pedophile
senator of New Jersey. He should be in prison but was saved by one
juror in his corruption trial with whom he partied after his win on November
6. Who votes for a man like this? There
is plenty of proof that he took bribes from a wealthy client for numerous
favors, trips to the Dominican Republic for sex with underage girls
being one of them. But New Jersey just re-elected this
man. They too have lost all sense of right vs. wrong.
Stacey
Abrams, the still grasping gubernatorial contender in Georgia, is a
hard-left, anti-capitalist, anti-Second Amendment candidate. She
owes about $200K in credit card debt and wants to run Georgia? She
too is corrupt and incompetent. She is also willing to cheat to win.
Are Georgians ignorant of her many, many negatives? If they are, they voted for
her anyway. Again, skin color trumps
everything.
The
left ignores fine men like John
James, who ran for the House in Michigan against
Debbie Stabenow. The left ignored Eddie Edwards who
ran in New Hampshire. Both men are conservative African
Americans. The American left today pretends such candidates do not
exist. They have ignored fine people like James and Edwards as they
have always ignored brilliant men like Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Walter
Williams, Jason Riley, and Larry Elder. They revile the brilliant
Clarence Thomas. They don't like to be reminded of men like Frederick
Douglass or Booker
T. Washington. Neither of them, like
Sowell, Steele, Williams and Elder ever promoted the idea that African
Americans were or would be perennial victims. Each of them advocated
for quite the opposite, for self-reliance and independence.
This
notion of personal responsibility is anathema to today's left; they need and
promote subservience and dependency among their flock of reliable but
uninformed voters. This is why they encourage the immigration of so
many millions of illegal migrants. They assume they will be able to win for
them the right to vote. Judging by the number of them who likely
voted in the midterms, their plan is succeeding.
This is how they will destroy America from
within. The leftist billionaires who orchestrate these plans are
extravagantly wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in Congress will never
be exposed to the downside of the invasion of millions of migrants,
the crime or the financial burden. They have nothing but
contempt for those of us who must endure the consequences of our communities
being intruded upon by gang members, drug dealers and human
traffickers. These people have no intention of becoming Americans;
like the Democrats who welcome them, they have contempt for us.
Then
there is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the thoroughly-ignorant-of-everything
candidate who won her district by 80%! This young woman
knows nothing about how any government works, let alone ours. She is
hopelessly uniformed; she knows even less about US history or the
Constitution. She is clueless about the economy. When
asked how she would pay for all the give-away programs she touts, she replied
that that was a "puzzling question"! "You
just pay for it" she answers. She
has no idea; no idea about anything. She thinks she will be
"inaugurated" to the House! Most fourth graders know more
than she does about US history. And yet she is already
thinking about running for President! This is a
wholesale indictment of our politicized, dumbed-down system of
education. Many of her constituents are immigrants; we are obviously
not educating them at all. They voted for all the free stuff --
college, medical care, basic income, housing, that Ocasio-Cortez has
promised to deliver. This is what socialist Democrats dream
about: perpetual power over a populace too ignorant to
rebel. American as founded is at grave risk.
In
addition to ODasio-Cortez, Gillum, Ilhan Omar, Abrams, Sinema,
who very likely cheated to
take the Arizona Senate seat, there is Linda
Sanchez. Kirsten Gillibrand is a Hillary clone;
she only cares about her own political power. She speaks like a small child but
is also considering a run for the presidency. She was best pals with
Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstein until they were politically
inconvenient. Amy Klobuchar, who embraced the vicious and obviously
false allegations against Judge Kavanagh, was re-elected! Like every
other Democrat member of the judiciary committee, she knew those accusations
were false, without a shred of corroboration, but her constituents re-elected
her! Who are these voters? How do they reconcile voting
for people willing to destroy a fine man for political purposes? She
is exactly who every Democrat member of that committee is, who every member of
the Democrat Party is: nothing more than power-hungry political
operatives out to ruin any and all opponents by any means
necessary. They are a clear and present danger to American as
founded.
Young
people are no longer taught the truth of American history. They are
not taught the truth of the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism
is acceptable, even promoted, by the Democrats. They
embrace Linda
Sarsour and Louis Farrakhan without
shame. Young people don't know that communism killed
over a hundred million people in the twentieth century. Their
calculated-by-leftists ignorance is destroying our country. They try
to sell the idea that gender is not a factor of biology! They
attempt to convince young people that climate change is man-made (a travesty)
and that global warming causes wild fires (a lie). Having control
over academia, they have willfully brainwashed students for nearly two
generations. Unless your children are a strong-willed, independent
thinkers, do not send them to college!
How
and why the American left has devolved into the kind of party one finds in a
banana republic is a mystery. That our media is so anxious to
promote their corrupt candidates and the low-brow
tactics they employ is a tragedy. Do they do it
because they can no longer win by promulgating their Orwellian vision of a
socialist state, mandated equality of
outcome? Perhaps. They will never sell socialism to
enough sentient Americans to win. They need millions of uninformed
voters to succeed.
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of
us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need
to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty
picture. What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest
nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They have
nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this
country.
DEMOCRACY
DIES IN A LEFTIST COUP
The best midterms that San Francisco donors
could buy.
November 15, 2018
Daniel Greenfield, a
Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative
journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
After President Trump
took office, the Washington Post announced its new motto,
“Democracy dies in darkness.” But it was the Washington Post, not
Trump, that was guilty of undermining democracy.
President Trump had been
legitimately elected by a majority of states. The Washington Post was
an establishment paper in a government city owned by a dot com robber baron.
There’s nothing more undemocratic than a paper owned by the richest man in the
world working to overturn an election.
There was just as little
democracy to the midterm elections in which wealthy donors from blue states and
districts poured money into local races in red and purple states and
districts. San Francisco and New York billionaires buying elections in
Pennsylvania and Nevada is not democracy. It’s oligarchy.
American elected
officials were meant to be elected by local communities to serve their needs.
Instead the Left has nationalized local races by exploiting its cultural power.
And when that didn’t produce the immediate results that it wanted, began
overwhelming local elections with huge piles of outside cash.
The midterm elections
were the best elections that San Francisco donors could buy.
Senate Democrats picked
up $220 million in out-of-state donations these midterms. That huge pile of
cash also amounted to sixty percent of their haul. The
majority of Dem Senate cash came from donors who weren’t living in the states
they were running in, but who were trying to buy elections for them.
That’s the Washington
Post brand of democracy.
It’s not just Senate
races being bought up by out-of-state donors. 45% of House Dem money came from
out-of-state donors. And when they didn’t succeed in buying a local election
the first time, they just kept on pouring in more money into a district until
they got their way.
Last year, Democrats
poured in $22.5 million into a special election in Georgia’s
6th congressional district. 95% of the donations came from
out-of-state donors. Democrat Jon Ossoff received more donations from California than Georgia. Ossoff still lost to
Rep. Karen Handel, even though her donations amounted to only a fraction of his
ActBlue bucks.
But the same donors just
waited a year and bought the seat for Lucy McBath in the midterms.
In October, Lucy McBath
was appearing at the Writers Guild Theater in Los Angeles hosted by Hollywood
royalty like Katzenberg, Tony Goldwyn and Cameron Crowe for a $500 a head
fundraiser.
A large chunk of outside
money behind McBath came from Michael Bloomberg. McBath touted his gun control
positions and the New York billionaire’s front groups put $4.5 million behind his lackey.
There’s nothing
democratic about Bloomberg buying the 6th the way he once bought Gracie
Mansion.
In Illinois' 13th
Congressional District, Betsy Dirksen Londrigan pulled in $1.7 million to Rep.
Rodney Davis' $700K in a three month period. And then outside groups poured in
nearly as much again in support of Londrigan. $300K of that money came from
California.
In Nevada, out-of-state
donors bought Jacky Rosen a senate seat. 85% of the radical lefty
candidate’s donations came from outside the state. Of her 5 top donor zip
codes, two were in New York, two in California, including Palo Alto, and the
odd zip code out was in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
The media frequently airs
complaints about how little political power New York and California have per
capita compared to a handful of small states. These complaints are not only
cynically specious, they ignore the fact that between the media’s messaging
force multipliers and the bicoastal wealth being used to buy elections,
political power has become as concentrated as economic and cultural power.
And that’s the opposite
of democracy.
The midterms weren’t a
populist wave. They were an angry tantrum by wealthy blue state donors who used
their money to buy local elections as payback for having their views ignored in
2016. Instead of listening to the rest of the country, they set out to buy it,
lock, stock and barrel. They found experts, consultants, strategists,
programmers and organizers who would buy them other people’s elections.
Much of their money was
wasted. Just ask Beto O’Rourke and his $70 million war chest. But their
hysterical frenzy of spending made an undeniable impact. If you throw enough
mud or money at an election, eventually it sticks. The Democrat raised nearly
$1 billion to take the House.
And they took it.
$166.8 million was pumped into 30 House
Democrat candidates. That’s compared to $90.7 million for the Republican
candidates in those races.
The most expensive
midterm elections in history paid off for Democrats. And there’s nothing
democratic about that.
Democracy doesn’t die in
darkness. It dies in the glare of lefty media, lefty money and lefty power
which strip away local issues and local agency in Arizona, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and Florida. Big blue state donors bought the midterm elections to
send a message to President Trump. Many had been convinced by frenzied media
hit pieces in papers like the Washington Post that action
was desperately urgent.
When the Washington
Post, the rest of the media and their long tail of ActBlue donors
intervene in local elections, it doesn’t uphold democracy. It drowns it in the
bright actinic glare of flashes and floodlights.
The media postures as a
defender of democracy, but corporate media is more naturally a defender of
establishments, of the nostrums and platitudes of the elites whom it serves and
coddles. When it interferes in elections, it doesn’t do so for the sake of the
people, but for the sake of its people.
Political elites mistrust
the people and use the media to manipulate popular elections into endorsing
their unpopular agendas. The mainstream media is an inherently undemocratic
institution that amplifies elite voices at the expense of local communities. It
claims to be democratic only because it reinterprets democracy to mean the
political agendas of the Democrats rather than those of the people.
Lefties often misuse
democracy to mean a set of values while actual democracy, the vox populi, is
tarred as populism. But democracy isn’t a set of social issues. It’s the power
shift between the voters and elected officials. Big media and blue state
billionaires have shifted that balance away from local voters by buying local
elections and seeking new voters when the old won’t vote their way.
If a few million in
attack ads won’t influence local voters, you register new ones. If that doesn’t
work, then you legalize felons. And if that won’t do it, there are the illegal
aliens, and voter and ballot fraud. Buy a few secretary of state races. Set up
housing for out-of-state college students. Sign up aliens to vote. And then
even if the local voters don’t vote your way, it won’t matter. They’ll have
been outvoted.
This isn’t democracy. But
it is how Democrats have won some local races.
The shift away from local
voters to a national political infrastructure is undemocratic. But it neatly
fits into the larger leftist cause of centralizing all of politics (and all
other areas of life) in elitist strongholds. The partnerships between elitist
leaders and their local crony stakeholders act as a fig leaf for the
dismantling of local autonomy with performative diversity replacing
representational democracy.
The Democrats have waged
an undemocratic war on democracy in the name of democracy. The midterms were
the latest leftist coup against democracy. And democracy lost to the Left.
THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WAGES WAR ON AMERICA!
"GOP estb. is
using the $5 billion border-wall fight to hide up to four blue/white-
collar cheap-labor
programs in lame-duck DHS budget. Donors are worried that
salaries are too
damn high, & estb. media does not want to know."
MULTI-CULTURALISM and the
creation of a one-party globalist country to serve the rich in America’s open
borders.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/12/em-cadwaladr-impending-death-of.html
“Open border advocates, such as
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to
California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the CIS has
documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few
skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them
access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegals
were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, CA, with its 2.6
million illegals, would be booming.” STEVE BALDWIN – AMERICAN SPECTATOR
AS
WALL STREET PLUNDERS: A Nation of One Million Homeless and Overrun By Mexico’s
Export of “cheap labor”!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/wall-street-plunders-ceo-pay-banksters.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
MASSIVE TRANSFER OF
WEALTH TO THE RICH: YOUR DEMOCRAT PARTY AT WORK…. for Wall Street, Banksters,
Billionaires and LA RAZA.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-democrat-party-for-billionaires.html
“But
a series of reports on CEO pay, bank profits and corporate cash released over
the past week reveal that corporate America and the financial oligarchy are
wallowing in record levels of wealth.”
"America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the
Democratic Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent
lifestyle."
Class Conflict within the
Democratic Party
Over many decades, the American Left, the Democratic Party and
their mutual propaganda arm, the self-styled “mainstream media,” have
successfully portrayed conservatives and the Republican Party as a coalition of
the wealthy and intolerant. Further, the Democrats and the left have
claimed that they are the true champions of the working or middle class as they
unceasingly fight to defeat and marginalize this evil menace.
The reality, however, is that this cabal has virtually no interest
in defending or aiding the working class as they are, in fact, the party of a
bifurcated constituency: the wealthy and those dependent on the largess of the
government.
America’s elites, now overwhelmingly represented by the Democratic
Party, have a single overriding interest: their self-indulgent
lifestyle. This
is manifested in their mistaken belief that conservatives (i.e. the “right”)
are hell bent on enforcing their version of morality on the nation, thus
potentially calling into question the lifestyles of the rich and
solipsistic.
The veracity of this claim is immaterial as it would require an
element of deliberation not emotion -- a trait in extremely short supply
among the nation’s privileged class, nearly all of whom have difficulty in
generating an original thought due to the ill-education rampant in America’s
universities. Thus, the mindless accusations of racism, misogyny and
Fascism directed at the conservative rubes in middle America are acceptable,
and in far too many instances believed, particularly as many had the temerity
to vote for Donald Trump – who, although wealthy and Ivy League educated, is
considered the ultimate unsophisticated rube.
As conservatives are the dominant force in the Republican Party
and this nation cannot function politically with more than two major political
parties, the alternative is the Democratic Party. An entity dominated by the
American Left, an assemblage whose core philosophy is antithetical to the
interests of the wealthy and privileged. Yet, determined to protect their
lifestyles and vilify conservatives, they willingly ally with the left and
overwhelmingly support virtually any Democratic candidate. In the recent
2018 mid-terms, Democratic House candidates outspent their Republican opponents
by a two to one margin thanks primarily to this wealthy but myopic
assemblage.
Their colleagues in the Democratic Party, and the preponderance of
the membership, are those dependent on the largess of the federal and state
governments. On the other hand, the growing segment of the citizenry who
are working and self-sufficient are increasingly joining those who believe in
limited government in migrating to the Republican Party-- a process that is
accelerating with the policies and tactics of Donald Trump in combating the
entrenched left and their determination to culturally and economically
transform the nation. The Republican Party will inevitably become the
party of the working or middle class. As such, they could potentially
dominate the political agenda for the foreseeable future.
The left and the Democratic Party, in order to offset this
possibility, must aggressively seek to increase the number of dependents by
promoting the legalization and ultimate citizenship for untold millions of
illegal immigrants and promising all Americans cradle to grave economic
security. In order to enact this strategy to defeat the Republicans, the left
must have the active participation and financial support of the nation’s
wealthy-- which they have.
The Democratic Party has evolved into essentially an incompatible
two-tier class-driven entity encompassing the nation’s wealthiest and the
nation’s poorest. Nonetheless, it is at present a convenient home for the
elites to hold off the imaginary horde of conservatives outside their gilded
doors.
However, the voting numbers within the party are overwhelmingly
with those who generally support the leftist philosophies of redistribution
(e.g. socialized medicine and guaranteed incomes) and curtailing of freedom
(e.g. speech, assembly and religion). While it may not manifest itself to
the affluent who have cast their lot with the Democrats, the redistribution of
wealth must, by necessity, come from the wealthy, as that is where the bulk of
the nation’s wealth resides. It is also this same small-in-numbers
group that benefits the most from freedom of speech and assembly.
Once fully embroiled in this marriage of convenience, a divorce
will be impossible as the co-inhabitant of the Democratic Party, the dependent
class, must continue grow in order to electorally defeat the Republicans and
protect the left’s agenda. Further, the oversold expectations promulgated
by the left will never be satisfied regardless of how many promises are made or
token redistributive programs are enacted by the current ruling class.
Only a complete transformation of this nation into a failed socialist state
will satiate the left, their acolytes and their attendant army of
dependency. A goal more in reach than ever thanks to the inability of the
nation’s elites to give a damn about the future of the country.
There is not a more short-sighted and self-absorbed group of
citizens in this nation than the white, wealthy well-educated urban and
suburban voters. They
are willing to rend the fabric of this nation in order to protect their
privilege and lifestyle. While the vast majority of Americans will ultimately
pay the price, the current ruling class and their progeny will have far more to
lose.
Dem billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg already have spent a combined $200 million in quest for presidency
Remember when the Democrats thought “money politics” was a bad thing? That moral certainty started to crumble when Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by a factor of at least 2, and still went down to defeat. And while vilifying Wall Street makes for good progressive virtue-signaling, the Dems are now the party of plutocrats, buying with welfare and money transfers the support of an underclass kept angry and dependent by progressive policies that hamper job-creation and reward idleness and dependency.
President Trump’s tax and regulations cuts have boosted job growth and income at the lower end of the market, imperiling this strategy, but that hasn’t stopped the billionaires lusting for power and still welcome in the party. Maya King of Politico writes:
Together, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg have poured nearly $200 million into television and digital advertising alone, with the former New York mayor spending an unprecedented $120 million in the roughly three weeks since he joined the presidential race. That’s more than double the combined ad spending of every single non-billionaire candidate in the Democratic field this entire year.“We’ve never seen spending like this in a presidential race,” said Jim McLaughlin, a Republican political strategist who worked as a consultant for Bloomberg’s mayoral bids in New York. “He has a limitless budget.” (snip)Steyer isn’t spending at the same stratospheric levels as Bloomberg, yet with $83 million in ad buys so far, he’s still far outpacing everyone other than his fellow billionaire. The next highest spender on ads is Pete Buttigieg at $19 million.
Many readers know that political consultants love campaign advertising because they get a percentage of the spend in compensation, often 15%, which really adds up when a budget of $120 million is up for grab. And that’s just for 3 weeks.
Bloomberg is stiff-arming the early primary states, but Steyer,who has been in the race much longer, is spending gigantic sums in small and inexpensive media markets in the first 4 states:
Steyer is largely focused on the four early voting states. He has spent nearly $37 million in Iowa, South Carolina, Nevada and New Hampshire — much of it on digital ads. Since joining the race in July, he’s more than doubled the combined ad spending of Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in the early states.
Joel Pollak of Breitbart points out that so far, the money hasn’t bought much:
…according to the RealClearPolitics national poll average, Bloomberg is languishing in fifth place, with 5%. Steyer is doing even worse, in tenth place, with 1.5%.Steyer improves to seventh in Iowa (2.5%) and New Hampshire (2.7%), sixth in Nevada (3.5%), and fifth in South Carolina (4.0%). Bloomberg’s best result in an early primary state appears to be in California, where he is sixth (3.3%).
I don’t think either man has a chance of capturing the Dems’ nod, but they do have the potential to create mischief. Steyer already bankrolled a push toward impeachment that succeeded in forcing the House to vote out the lamest articles of impeachment in history. And Bloomberg is planning to sink huge resources into not only his own campaign, but into Democrat congressional races, where advertising can be far more effective, since most voters have much less knowledge of their own congressional candidates than they do of presidential races.
Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin has nothing on the resources of Steyer or Bloomberg.
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