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In the San Francisco Bay Area, we're at the breaking point: It's not just the COVID restrictions, It's also the complete breakdown of civil society.
American Thinker ^ | 02/02/2022 | Terry Paulding

Posted on 02/02/2022 8:46:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Zathras
SF has been ruled by one party since the 60’s.

Yup, and the consequences of a one-party state are obvious: (1) elections no longer matter because only one party wins; (2) politicians are subject not to the approval of the voters, but the approval of the party; and (3) advancement within the party becomes the coin of the realm. They don't have to perform in office, they just have to accrue money and power for the party.

That party can, in fact, manage a society in which it does not take part. What has the state reeling at the moment is that the party elite are no longer entirely separated from those consequences - a Louis Vuitton store being looted is far more newsworthy than the Targets that have been for quite some time.

Still, it becomes extremely difficult to vote one's way out of this since the voting mechanisms have been so thoroughly corrupted. Precisely none of my California friends believes that Newsom actually won the recall election. He didn't have to.

61 posted on 02/02/2022 12:51:11 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm shocked, SHOCKED! to hear Progressivism is destroying all things everywhere it is imposed.

I learned that lesson as a teenager around 60 years ago. Then it was called "Communism" and I observed it up close with my own eyes and not through the lens of some academic clown or social media propaganda organ. The frauds imposing it elsewhere simply changed the name and continued destroying humanity with their lies and avarice.

62 posted on 02/02/2022 12:57:14 PM PST by Gritty (Follow the money in politics, you find the criminals. Is it now true in the medical profession?)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s all going according to plan.

This is not incompetence.

This is malfeasance.

We are occupied by a hostile government.


63 posted on 02/02/2022 12:58:52 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: SeekAndFind

You can’t always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes, you just might find
That what you want is horrible.
But then you’re stuck with it.


64 posted on 02/02/2022 1:02:53 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: Persevero

I have been to church in China many times.


65 posted on 02/02/2022 1:08:13 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat; Fai Mao

Of course not all believers are in jail. And yes you can worship there as a foreigner, especially if you attend a state approved three self patriotic movement church.

But they tyrannize the churches and the believers. Imprison one and you intimidate a thousand. It’s no secret. Visit voice of the martyrs or something. There is not religious freedom in China.


66 posted on 02/02/2022 3:08:10 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: unixfox

The problem is, these people are parasites. Once they destroy one nice place, pretty soon they’re descending into our neighborhoods.


67 posted on 02/02/2022 3:29:38 PM PST by Sarcazmo
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To: Persevero

I went to a local church. I lived in Wuhan 6 years


68 posted on 02/02/2022 3:57:51 PM PST by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Fai Mao

I believe you. I also know that the communist Chinese persecute the church and Christians. I know Christian’s from China. I read the news. I get information from
ministries to the persecuted church. It’s not very debatable. It’s the official Chinese position.

Prisoneralert.com


69 posted on 02/02/2022 4:01:31 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: brownsfan

There is no opposition candidate. Pelosi is your god. Worship her.


70 posted on 02/02/2022 4:16:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: Bob434

You’d have to hose down the streets, with or without the bums occupying them. And then the media would take a gander at it and it’d be all over the world how mean-spirited you are, hosing down the homeless. And they’d move somewhere.


71 posted on 02/02/2022 4:18:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fight to stop it or live with it. Frankly the whining and waiting around for fraudulent elections to save our bacon is boring.


72 posted on 02/02/2022 4:21:43 PM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: lodi90

That probably is a bad thing for Floridians.


73 posted on 02/02/2022 4:23:38 PM PST by dforest (Freaking insane world. )
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To: qam1

That is the real crux of the matter. The sad truth is Republicans need not need to lift a finger against democrats they are building their own prisons in their own homes.

We need merely keep them away from ours, and remind them where there problems really come from. Poorly thought out leftists lies if we wish to help them.


74 posted on 02/02/2022 8:26:35 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: Eleutheria5

oh yeah i forgot about the homeless- but if they weren’t getting all their ‘free stuff’ they’d move elsewhere= pass laws against them too- let the left scream- who cares? let em- We’d have californium to ourselves lol


75 posted on 02/02/2022 9:00:03 PM PST by Bob434
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To: metmom

The majority voting and bankrolling elections are largely insolated from said consequences.


76 posted on 02/02/2022 9:07:11 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: FormerFRLurker; SeekAndFind
“I can no longer eat in a restaurant in any of the communities surrounding my home, or legally enter my gym, attend a concert, go to a museum, or do anything that enriches life beyond the bare bones of going shopping for food or goods or taking a walk outdoors. Why? Because I refuse to carry or show a “vaccine passport” or share my “status.””

How is this being enforced?

77 posted on 02/02/2022 9:09:05 PM PST by thecodont
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To: Billthedrill; Zathras
Precisely none of my California friends believes that Newsom actually won the recall election. He didn't have to.

Disgusting, isn't it.

78 posted on 02/02/2022 9:12:44 PM PST by thecodont
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To: qam1

“Liberals are getting what they voted for and what they deserve”

I agree. Let it fester, pop some popcorn, and enjoy the show!


79 posted on 02/03/2022 8:21:02 AM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: thecodont

“How is this being enforced?”

It varies wildly—literally neighborhood to neighborhood, block by block, in CA cities.

Insane laws can destroy civilization in a hurry.


80 posted on 02/03/2022 8:23:51 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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