I know I repeat myself, but thank you once again for an insightful article. I especially enjoyed the paragraph that starts "'Nobody' is a non-answer." I am sympathetic to much of the progressive agenda (though I would never call Bush a progressive; whether she just lacks self-awareness in spades or is an outright poser and doesn't care, she is pretty much the opposite of a "socialist" when it comes to herself). But the one beef I always have with them is they pretend they live in a different world than they do. Just because we remove police doesn't mean people will stop being violent. Just because we make the state pay for all "medicine" won't make Big Pharma/Big Med stop being greedy. Just because we demand everyone pay $15/hour minimum wage won't create jobs that actually warrant that and won't stop inflation so that now you're just poor on $15/hour. It is refreshing to find someone with nuanced enough thinking to understand that the problem is bigger than a slogan and politicking if you don't want an even bigger mess.
Great piece, Leighton. I am curious did Ms Bush pay the $70,000 out of her own pocket or was that bill paid by the tax payers? I believe this is approximately one year after the mayor of Seattle called the defunded Seattle police force for help when “mostly peaceful protestors” were trespassing on her property while threatening her. In the ultimate display of kabuki theatre, Seattle is now looking to hire close to 200 additional law enforcement officers. If I didn’t know any better I might think that these wokesters are deliberately trying to burn this meritocracy to the ground literally and figuratively!
I wondered the same thing. I know what she makes per year as a representative, so it is either being paid through the state or through her campaign committee, I would guess. Did you see that in DC Muriel Bowser wanted to hire more cops and the city council wouldn't let her? They've kind of backed themselves into a corner.
Yes and what about Minneapolis needing to hire a significant number of law enforcement officers? Lost on all the woke progressives is that a significant majority of law abiding city residents would like to see an increased police presence, including a majority of African Americans. Pretty crazy that in a democracy what the majority want and need to be safe is being ignored by the woke virtue signallers and is being cheered on by the corrupt corporate media. I guess we really do get the government we deserve
I agree with everything you say except this. You are assuming we still live in a democracy. If you start thinking of the US as a quasi-fascist (or if you ask some drop the "quasi") state with only the token of elections to still give us the facade of a democracy, then things begin to make much more sense. And I don't use the word "fascism" lightly. Fascism is government and large corporations intertwined to rule the people to the benefit of those corporations and their servants in the government. They need the regular people hurting so badly that they don't have time to notice the take over of the country by what one author termed "global cap(italism)." Also, I don't always agree with Candace Owens, but she makes an interesting point I think we all should take notice of. If you decimate the local police departments, cities will gladly welcome in federal law enforcement, something that is already happening with the Capitol Police and the fight against "white supremacy" and "insurrectionists." Such a move further solidifies the power of the federal government. People like Cori Bush are either in on the joke or useful idiots to bring us closer to a difficult-to-reverse slide into fascism.
To say about Cori Bush so I will just say that I hope she is getting her money’s worth from her private security staff. I ask myself daily what the end game is here and I keep coming back to the WEF/UN reset initiatives that our elites have cooked up to implement a grandiose vision of their utopian playground. Also clear that the left/far left are implementing this in western democracies while utilizing big corporations to deliver their favoured policies. Ie big tech et al. Strange bedfellows indeed , the left and corporate America! Nothing will change for the elites with all of their wealth stuffed into their foundations. What frustrates me the most is these elite ghouls regularly gaslight us about climate change while flying around the world in their private jets and tooling around in their energy efficient yachts! I fear we are on our way to a one party globalist state unless the majority of society wakes up
I know I repeat myself, but thank you once again for an insightful article. I especially enjoyed the paragraph that starts "'Nobody' is a non-answer." I am sympathetic to much of the progressive agenda (though I would never call Bush a progressive; whether she just lacks self-awareness in spades or is an outright poser and doesn't care, she is pretty much the opposite of a "socialist" when it comes to herself). But the one beef I always have with them is they pretend they live in a different world than they do. Just because we remove police doesn't mean people will stop being violent. Just because we make the state pay for all "medicine" won't make Big Pharma/Big Med stop being greedy. Just because we demand everyone pay $15/hour minimum wage won't create jobs that actually warrant that and won't stop inflation so that now you're just poor on $15/hour. It is refreshing to find someone with nuanced enough thinking to understand that the problem is bigger than a slogan and politicking if you don't want an even bigger mess.
Great piece, Leighton. I am curious did Ms Bush pay the $70,000 out of her own pocket or was that bill paid by the tax payers? I believe this is approximately one year after the mayor of Seattle called the defunded Seattle police force for help when “mostly peaceful protestors” were trespassing on her property while threatening her. In the ultimate display of kabuki theatre, Seattle is now looking to hire close to 200 additional law enforcement officers. If I didn’t know any better I might think that these wokesters are deliberately trying to burn this meritocracy to the ground literally and figuratively!
I wondered the same thing. I know what she makes per year as a representative, so it is either being paid through the state or through her campaign committee, I would guess. Did you see that in DC Muriel Bowser wanted to hire more cops and the city council wouldn't let her? They've kind of backed themselves into a corner.
Yeah, it's paid through her campaign funds.
Thank you for the answer.
Yes and what about Minneapolis needing to hire a significant number of law enforcement officers? Lost on all the woke progressives is that a significant majority of law abiding city residents would like to see an increased police presence, including a majority of African Americans. Pretty crazy that in a democracy what the majority want and need to be safe is being ignored by the woke virtue signallers and is being cheered on by the corrupt corporate media. I guess we really do get the government we deserve
I agree with everything you say except this. You are assuming we still live in a democracy. If you start thinking of the US as a quasi-fascist (or if you ask some drop the "quasi") state with only the token of elections to still give us the facade of a democracy, then things begin to make much more sense. And I don't use the word "fascism" lightly. Fascism is government and large corporations intertwined to rule the people to the benefit of those corporations and their servants in the government. They need the regular people hurting so badly that they don't have time to notice the take over of the country by what one author termed "global cap(italism)." Also, I don't always agree with Candace Owens, but she makes an interesting point I think we all should take notice of. If you decimate the local police departments, cities will gladly welcome in federal law enforcement, something that is already happening with the Capitol Police and the fight against "white supremacy" and "insurrectionists." Such a move further solidifies the power of the federal government. People like Cori Bush are either in on the joke or useful idiots to bring us closer to a difficult-to-reverse slide into fascism.
Well I don’t have much good
To say about Cori Bush so I will just say that I hope she is getting her money’s worth from her private security staff. I ask myself daily what the end game is here and I keep coming back to the WEF/UN reset initiatives that our elites have cooked up to implement a grandiose vision of their utopian playground. Also clear that the left/far left are implementing this in western democracies while utilizing big corporations to deliver their favoured policies. Ie big tech et al. Strange bedfellows indeed , the left and corporate America! Nothing will change for the elites with all of their wealth stuffed into their foundations. What frustrates me the most is these elite ghouls regularly gaslight us about climate change while flying around the world in their private jets and tooling around in their energy efficient yachts! I fear we are on our way to a one party globalist state unless the majority of society wakes up