Enlightened progressives see themselves ‘progressing’ - moving society into a brave new future. ‘Time is wasting and we must change with the times.’ Their job is therefore to leave behind old and stodgy traditions, dismiss those traditions, and any individuals ‘who hold us back.’
Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, is not merely a typical progressive. She is documented to be a committed and active Marxist (read more here.). Marxism is expressly antithetical to the values and ‘policies’ of Western Civilization. It calls for cultural and moral change, by abandoning those previously cherished cultural and moral principles. It believes in creating a Brave New World by seizing government; forcing it into its ‘progressive’ mold, and then using that government to force citizens to accept that mold.
What could go wrong?
Last week many Californians slowly recognized that things can indeed go wrong.
When intentionally “de-constructed” ideas are the basis of your government’s policies, then deconstruction you shall have.
I grew up in LA.
Angelenos know well the warm winds that annually whip the region. Previous generations were prepared. The regular Santa Ana conditions are not the ultimate culprit in the astounding moonscape that had been Pacific Palisades, and elsewhere. That smoke you smell indicates more sinister embers beneath the media’s reportage.
Raising compassionate funds at the Grammys feels noble, and I have personally aided those who are helping burned-out families. But this can be a distraction and meaningless if the actual problems of California aren’t recognized.
Something is clearly not quite right in California politics. Perhaps Californians will now awaken from the their slumber while the smoke alarms are still ringing.
Marxist Mayor Bass was already alienating Angelenos before the historic fires. Her decision to prioritize DEI issues, paying vast sums of limited government money for sexually-focused hires, rather than focusing on hiring qualified candidates to key departments; cutting funds for practical common-sense government services; working with the most ‘progressive’ governor in California history to ‘save nature,’ while they ignored nature itself, and the laws of nature.
Confused Marxist ideologues currently ‘govern’ California. And things won’t change until we replace them.
Did you know that Trotsky demanded unlimited, government-provided abortions in order for the Revolution to be fully realized? But you certainly know the California Democrat Party does.
Questioning and destroying the natural family is an essential predicate of Marxist agitation. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884) is the final ‘capstone’ to the Marx/Engels body of work. “The family must be destroyed,” is its essential refrain.
Declaring government-sponsored war on the natural family is a central premise of our current California government and the current regurgitation of ‘the feminist mystique’.
In California, the Democrat-controlled Government’s job is no longer to protect and to serve, but to direct and control your ideology and family.
Hopefully, startled Californians voters will take definitive action as the smoke clears. “Democrat” ideology, is actually just neo-marxist agitation. A becalmed, ‘moderate Republican Party’ unwilling to fight for its own principles, will never win the day. California needs another Reagan.
Yes, the fires of Los Angeles call for a lot more than ‘access to water.’ The call to restore civilization’s essential foundations has never been clearer. But will Californians listen?
Plato put it this way, “If the wise refuse to attend to politics, then they will be ruled over by their inferiors.”
History has proved this time and again. But given the rubble of culture we now have in California, unless there is a dramatic change of policy, there may not be much left to ‘rule over’ at all.
Excellent writing. Precise and to the point. Thank you!