Something I’ve noticed lately is that the Left is feeling blue. I think they have a sense that the vast majority of people in the country have come to the realization that the Left has single-handedly ruined a whole slew of very important parts of American life. All kinds of people; poor, rich; black, white, brown; educated and uneducated; men and women. They’ve looked around and they see things like closed up stores in cities, failing school systems, homeless encampments everywhere, violence even in the rich neighborhoods and the cost of living becoming unmanageable. And they all know exactly how and who did it. The Left did it on purpose and unapologetically. And now the fingers are being pointed directly at them. And they want a hug.
I’ll read an article in the Atlantic or the New York Times and they’ll bemoan the loss of safety in the cities and they’ll wring their hands over the paradox of how making the criminal justice system easier on criminals has inexplicably made the streets mysteriously more dangerous. And they’ll finally say, “Well maybe we went too far.” And then they look for some kind of solidarity with the “good people in the middle.” They want to join hands with people who didn’t vote for Joe Biden. They’re looking for the kumbaya moment where we all share the blame for defunding the police and voting in soft on crime prosecutors and mayors. They want absolution; a do-over. Maybe they even want to leave the same bad actors in place and just let them learn from this “teachable moment.”
Of course, there are plenty of Republicans just stupid enough to rise to the bait and “reach across the aisle.” But hopefully the people themselves have become disgusted enough that we can build up a slow boil in society at large. We need enough areas to finally get wise to the futility of cooperating with the Left. States with large cities have to become sophisticated enough to make laws that can allow the state to step in when local officials create dangerous or dysfunctional conditions. They can legislate against unconstitutional gun laws, sanctuaries for illegal aliens or unhealthy treatment of children. And these states can counteract the federal laws that damage life for them. Improve the schools and eliminate propaganda from the Left, welfare reform, defunding of illegal aliens.
So, I take it as a very healthy sign that the Left is worried about the exposure they’ve received for driving the country into a ditch. And anyone who reacts to these kinds of appeals to solidarity and fellow citizenship should have his head examined and then given a good solid butt kicking for good measure.
And as far as these kinds of things happening in deep blue states like California and Oregon, I’m absolutely thrilled. I hope that nothing whatsoever is done to change the policies or alleviate the outcomes of the policies they’ve instituted. I want places like San Francisco and Portland to become just one big homeless encampment. I want every single store in places like Oakland to close up. I want the price of gasoline in Los Angeles to reach twenty dollars a gallon and brownouts to last for most of the workday. What I’d really love to see is all of Silicon Valley move to Texas and California officially go broke and go out of business. Then I’ll give them a hug.
