Comments on: Is nice Marin County an outlier or American ordinary? (In the nicest possible way.)

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:01:04 +0000

The Left is evil in a way few can imagine. In so far as any wish to imagine it at all.

By: heartlander

heartlander — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:33:25 +0000

David Horowitz’s latest booklet, “Go for the Heart,” is a MUST-READ about precisely what you touch on in your last paragraph, Bookworm — that Republicans need to show people that Democrats are the real exploiters, the ones who are making our lives worse, the ones who most cruelly victimize those groups they’re always braying about helping — the poor, women, the middle class, minorities….
Here’s an online version of the complete text:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/02/david-horowitz-how-republicans-can-win.php
We need to get this text into the hands of every Republican activist/strategist/commentator in the country. Pronto. As Horowitz says, our opponents are already working on the next election — we need to be doing the same.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 05:02:09 +0000

Very nicely done, Charles! And with a perfect closing line.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 04:16:23 +0000

This thread got me to thinking about the progression people go through as they age and then finally die. The second-to-last stage for all of us is “young old,” that time, hopefully years long, where grey hair, crumbling teeth, restless sleep, and daily aches and pains are tolerable. We may creak and groan, but we can still walk around, enjoy our food and friends, and forget ourselves at those marvelous moments when something beautiful overwhelms us.

But, the last stage is “old old,” when our bodies quit being game and, like the One Hoss Shay, everything goes to hell fast. In the space of a few weeks or months, we become terminally frail and then we’re gone.

Rome was “young old” for a long time. Even though it remained an empire more out of habit than conviction, it was an attractive old bird. The barbarians who assaulted it did not do so to destroy it but to usurp its governance or to punish it for not, ironically, being Roman enough. Yes, there was some collateral damage, but the sinews and structure of the empire remained basically intact despite the strange Germanic accents of its new governors.

But by the “old old” stage of the empire, the savages that now poured through to its heart were driven to white-hot anger that they could not possibly build or replicate what the Romans had erected—the aqueducts, roads, bridges, foundries, great public buildings. That anger drove them to do the only thing they could possibly do to assert their superiority over Rome: pillage, ransack, and destroy everything that reminded them of their vast inferiority.

Detroit is “old old,” its vitality sapped over the years by barbarians who sucked it dry, partly to enrich themselves and partly to placate the savages they bribed to support their rule. Now that the city is a husk, and the elite parasites have abandoned it, the city is now open to final mindless destruction that a bitter and resentful population will bring upon it.

It may be that the final collapse of Detroit will be a necessary thing. We conservatives can reason and patiently explain all we want the consequences of the left’s anger, greed, and envy, but our explanations remain yawn-inducing abstractions to most “low-information” voters. Better to be able to show the ruins of a once great city and say, “This didn’t have to happen. We know how to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

By: JKB

JKB — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:38:51 +0000

Legal Insurrection used some before and after images of Detroit to highlight the post about a Detroit blogger coming back on line. legalinsurrection…dewey-returns-to-detroit-can-a-conservative-spring-be-far-behind/ The image of Detroit Central station long ago and after Detroit's long occupation by modern Democrats Reminded me of this blog post highlighting the rapid improvement in former East Germany after they threw off their socialist utopia The Biz of Life: East Germany Before and After Reunification

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 14:43:18 +0000

Martin, that’s weak sauce. DC has em beat by at least 93% to 3/4ths. And it’s closer to 99% in some cities for blacks.

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 06:08:19 +0000

Book, you have obviously not been to Fauquier County, Va.
Oh, and it is overwhelmingly Republican.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 04:46:34 +0000

Book, there’s a bit of irony here: Marin is the most heavily Democratic suburb in California, possibly the nation. Something approaching 75 percent of voters here voted for Obama last November.

So, while it’s fair to say that most big cities run by Democrats are s**tholes, many of those same cities’ suburbs are swell places to live. Why? Because the modern Democrat elite—the credentialed upper-middle class—has learned the 21st-century version of resource extraction and exploitation that they love to rail at their straw-man robber-baron capitalists for doing. Most of the professionals in Marin County work at pursuits that depend upon the fruits of other people’s labor—banking, marketing, teaching, the law, social work. They do not produce tangible goods so much as preside over a transfer of wealth or power. If you are good at these things, and God knows Marin has some highly intelligent and proficient extractors, you can suck your mother city dry for decades.

Thus you have a Marin only 10 miles from the cancer known as Richmond, or a Chevy Chase only five miles from the racist outhouse known as Washington, DC. Both suburbs are more than happy to send furrow-browed experts to the ghetto to wring their hands over the plight of their victim populations, then send invoices for compassionate services rendered. If you pad those invoices, you can make one sweet living.