https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/12/06/were-watching-what-america-used-to-be-not-what-our-politics-used-to-be/

"But what we saw yesterday — and I don’t think this is too fine a point. I don’t think it’s a microscopic differentiation. I think it’s big. What we saw yesterday was a family’s values. The Bush family values is what we saw yesterday and what we have seen all week and what we are seeing today. We’re not really watching what used to be a better political period in our past, because that better political period doesn’t really exist. It’s a media creation to bash the present.
George H. W. Bush was savaged like his son was savaged. Ann Richards (imitating Richards), “Poor George, he can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” That’s at the Democrat National Convention. They were savagely attacking George W. Bush and George H. W. Bush. He was referred to as a lapdog. He was ripped and criticized constantly.
What we’re watching today — and I think the real key here, we are watching what a family’s values — the Bush family. But wait. Not just them. Hang on. We’re watching a family’s virtues and a family’s values. And you know what we’re reminded of today and yesterday? We’re not reminded what our politics was. Because it’s never been what they’re trying to tell you it is. What we are seeing, what we are being reminded of is how our entire culture used to be, how the entire American culture and society used to be."

...Hal Bray, Special to the California Political News and Views, 10/31/18

My wife and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. But like 46% of Bay area residents in a June 2018 Bay Area Council poll, we are considering leaving California. Arizona looks like our destination although many friends have already moved to Texas, Nevada, Idaho, and Tennessee.
Why? Simple. California’s Progressive culture and the government has turned the state into a filthy, debt-ridden, congested third world country with high taxes, high crime, and the highest housing costs in the country.
Our little piece of bliss is a third world country, made up of a large, wealthy population (Hollywood and Silicon Valley tech giants), an enormous poor population, and a declining middle class that elected officials only view as a large, distributed human ATM machine from which they withdraw money for “sanctuary cities” (actually sanctuary everything, cities, universities, the State, etc.), social justice programs, using the Trump administration, and “free” everything for everyone.
(The federal government has informed California this year, for example, that as it [California] tries to implement free health care for everyone, it illegally enrolled 400,000 people on Medicaid at a cost of $1 billion plus per year).
According to the Census Bureau, California has the highest poverty rate in the country at 19%. And, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, California has 12% of the country’s population and 43% of its TANF (welfare). California spends $103 billion per year on welfare, more than the next two states combined (New York at $61.4 billion and Texas at $35.4 billion).
California has the one of the highest GINI, or ine******y, the ratio in the country. A GINI ratio measures the difference between the richest residents and its poorest residents. According to Chapman University’s Center for Demographics and Policy, the state’s ine******y is worse than Mexico and equal to Guatemala and Honduras (ironically, where many of our new v**ers appear to be coming from).
San Francisco, proud to be what it thinks of itself as America’s most Progressive city, is a good surrogate for the state as a whole. The city has:
— hundreds of complaints weekly (more than 1600 in one recent week) about human feces (or “s**t” to our progressive friends) on the street, in parks, and in other public places; residents in the city, therefore, implemented a “POOP” or “Human Waste” Map, that tells visitors and residents which neighborhoods to avoid because of the overwhelming amount of human waste on the streets and other public places.
As if feces and urine everywhere are not bad enough, the city government is, in effect, turning the city into one large, outdoor illegal drug market. The city distributes more than 4.5 million hypodermic syringes and needles yearly to its growing horde of drug addicts; so many drug addicts clog the city’s commuter train (BART) stations.
But filth is not the city’s only issue. the FBI recently ranked San Francisco as the city with the highest crime rate in the country. For example, in 2017 the city’s residents were burdened with 32,000 car burglaries (residents put signs in their car windows begging people not to break their windows or steal anything from their cars).
The city of San Diego, adjacent to the Mexican border, is itself recovering from a Hepatitis A outbreak from human waste by washing its downtown streets nightly with bleach.
The State has the country’s highest income tax (and the highest capital gains tax in the WORLD), sales tax, gasoline tax, unemployment tax, and workers compensation tax. And, lucky us, we have the only Cap and Trade tax in the country, a secret “tax” administered by a State of California Corporation formed in Delaware.
Under the heading of criminal justice reform, the State has recently reduced many crimes in the State from felonies to misdemeanor status and released thousands of inmates from prison early. This August Governor Moonbeam (Jerry Brown) signed bail reform into law outlawing money bail. Combined, these new laws have added to both the crime problem and the homelessness problem.
Speaking of homelessness, since the government began focusing on solving the problem, the state’s homeless population has doubled; it is like a homeless manufacturing and marketing plan. Five years ago, L.A.’s homeless population was 32,000; last year’s count was 57,000.
The average price of a home in California is 2.5 times higher than the price of homes in other states (Average price of a home in San Francisco and many surrounding suburbs is more than $1million). This means owning a house is difficult, at best and the median homeowner property tax bill is 93% higher than the average for the other 49 states.
In the last e******n, 70 California cities raised their sales tax rates (primarily to pay for escalating pension costs for our failing pension systems). In addition, repealing last years new gas and vehicle registration taxes in Proposition 6, will likely be defeated next week.
Reform Network ranks California as the second worst “Judicial Hellhole” in the Country. CEO magazine has ranked California the worst state in the Country to do business in for the 14 th straight year.
California’s public schools are among the worst in the country. National tests place California students 44th (reading) and 46 th (math) in the nation.
While private sector workers in the State (and Country) who retire this year with at least 30 years of full-time work will receive, on average, a Social Security pension of $15,800 ($38,000 maximum), State and most city workers in the CalPERS pension system will receive a pension of $70,000 (police and fire more than $100,000 at age 50).
Teachers in the State make, on average, $81,000 per year and retire at 60 with an average pension of $55,000 per year. Yet both pension systems (CalPERS and CalSTRS) are only 2/3 funded with unfunded liabilities of close to $1 trillion. Employer contributions (read taxpayer contributions) that are already unsustainably high are doubling over the next five years to try to keep the systems from bankruptcy.
TRIP, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit, reported this month that California is home to six of the 20 U.S. cities of 200,000 or more people with the highest percentage of their streets and roads whose pavement condition is rated in poor condition: No. 1 San Francisco; No. 2 San Jose; No. 3 Los Angeles; No. 12 Sacramento; No. 13 Riverside; No. 16 Fresno.
According to the Federal government, California’s Cost of living is 41% higher than the national average.
Kiplinger has ranked California the 3 rd worst state, behind New York and New Jersey, to retire in. They clearly missed something because from where I live, we’re number one and as a result we are all moving.
Not to be all negative, the State and many cities in California have one BIG accomplishment for 2018: they have banned plastic straws. Yes, plastic straws. I guess they wanted to make sure there is enough plastic for the free hypodermic syringes they are giving out. And, oh, another big accomplishment, by golly, was banning all drinks for children meals in restaurants except water and milk. This may sound stupid, but we have all seen progressive parenting.
Maybe “Progressive” works when the progressive population is small and can be mostly ignored and/or tolerated by the population that pays the tab for it. But when its population becomes something closer in size to the mainstream population it is painful to live with and financially unsustainable.
My advice to Arizonians: get ready for the onslaught. Accept those coming to Arizona to flee the devastation of California and join your culture, your values. Be wary, however, of those coming to bring their devastation to Arizona. My request, as we plan our move to Arizona, is please don’t duplicate California’s failures; don’t “Californicate” Arizona.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/05/our-ignorance-of-socialism-is-dangerous/

By Walter E. Williams

A recent Victims of C*******m Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or c*******t country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter.

Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably. Lenin was the first premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Half of millennials have never heard of c*******t Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.

The number of people who died at the hands of Josef Stalin may be as high as 62 million. However, almost one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is responsible for more k*****gs than Stalin.

By the way, Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people. The N**is come in as a poor third in terms of history’s most prolific mass murderers. According to professor Rudolph Rummel’s research, the 20th century, mankind’s most brutal century, saw 262 million people’s lives destroyed at the hands of their own governments.

Young people who weren’t alive during World War II and its Cold War aftermath might be forgiven for not knowing the horrors of socialism. Some of their beliefs represent their having been indoctrinated by their K-12 teachers and college professors.

There was such l*****t h**e for Bush that it’s not out of the question that those 32 percent of millennials were taught by their teachers and professors that Bush murdered more people than Stalin.

America’s c*******ts, socialists, and Marxists have little knowledge of socialist history. Bradley Birzer, a professor of history at Hillsdale College, explains this in an article for The American Conservative titled “Socialists and F*****ts Have Always Been Kissing Cousins.”

Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1925, “It would be better for us to end our existence under Bolshevism than to endure s***ery under capitalism.” This N**i sentiment might be shared by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his comrade Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Goebbels added, “I think it is terrible that we and the c*******ts are bashing in each other’s heads.”

When the tragedies of socialist regimes—such as those in Venezuela, the USSR, China, Cuba, and many others—are pointed out to America’s l*****ts, they hold up Sweden as their socialist role model. But they are absolutely wrong about Sweden.

Johan Norberg points this out in his documentary “Sweden: Lessons for America?” Americans might be surprised to learn that Sweden’s experiment with socialism was a relatively brief flirtation, lasting about 20 years and ending in disillusionment and reform.

Reason magazine reports:

Sweden began rolling back government in the early 1990s, recapturing the entrepreneurial spirit that made it a wealthy country to begin with. High taxation and a generous array of government benefits are still around. But now it’s also a nation of school vouchers, free trade, open immigration, light business regulation, and no minimum wage laws.

School vouchers, light business regulation, and no minimum wage laws are practices deeply offensive to America’s l*****ts.

Our young people are not the first Americans to admire tyrants and cutthroats. W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian in 1953, said, “Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.” Walter Duranty called Stalin “the greatest living statesman” and “a quiet, unobtrusive man.”

There was even l*****t admiration for Hitler and fellow f*****t Benito Mussolini. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, George Bernard Shaw described him as “a very remarkable man, a very able man.” President Franklin Roosevelt called Mussolini “admirable,” and he was “deeply impressed by what he [had] accomplished.”

In 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith visited c*******t China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. His Harvard University colleague John K. Fairbank believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, “Americans may find in China’s collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one’s neighbor that has a lesson for us all.”

Are Americans who admire the world’s most brutal regimes miseducated or stupid? Or do they have some kind of devious agenda?

Let me say—gently—that you are delusional.

You assume that you alone can define Love, that your love is more pure, more true, more sincere and more legitimate.

Balderdash!

You think only you can judge the thoughts and feelings of others when you don’t even know them.

You offer us a right-wing of violence, corruption, sexism and r****m, and think you are more pure of heart for doing so, that your’goals and your aspirations trump those of others, that only Your Heart is Pure, only your Love in sincere, only You can truly judge.

We have a nation in which each citizen get his v**e, without your approval, without your say-so, with only his own desires to guide him.

PC has nothing to do with anything, only the untrammeled right to v**e—which your party seeks to destroy—and the free expression of each citizen’s desires for the future, his hopes for himself, his family, and his nation.

And you verbalize this in a public forum in the H**e Speech you decry in others, but practice yourself.

For Shame!

You are the nadir of American Politics, proud, dishonest, extreme—and violent in word and deed, in thought and wish, obscene in every desire, self-centered and ignorant.

May Fate save our Nation from such as you!

https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/11/30/there-is-no-surge-in-right-wing-violence/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1daaU1tVTROVGRtT0RVNCIsInQiOiJ1TllJa0QrcG1senJYNkNUTmY2NkJhRWtoaUJTQlA4WEk3a0F5QkVkUjdzcUYxMVN5NmNEWld3bEYyZmdpRWdVZ1wvQVlcLzVlbnpGM0dBSFVwbDQ3cW5iOGJ4QnNwQ0Rqa0t2Qk0yOEVOb2Q5akVQbGhPS0s5UE9ldE9mWUVYWTJyIn0%3D


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