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Nov 11, 2024
Headline: Michael Shellenberger: Californians Finally Get Serious on Crime
Sub-headline: On Tuesday, voters decided to trust their own eyes. What took so long?
November 8, 2024
Mr. Shellenberger rabble rousing attack on ‘progressives’ is hardly surprising as these three paragraphs demonstrate, even his book title reeks of contempt for these amorphous politics, and the title of his book reifies such ‘San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities’ Neo-Conservatives engage in the useful hyperbole of toxic Political Enemies: It’s etiolated, bastardized Leo Strauss!
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Over the last quarter century, progressives argued that we should decriminalize drugs, stop enforcing laws against nonviolent crimes, and radically reduce the number of people in prison. This softer approach to crime, addiction, and homelessness was demonstrably more effective and compassionate than tougher models, they said. Hundreds of articles, books, documentaries, TV segments, and fact sheets all buttressed this worldview.
We all needed more empathy for those committing crimes, more empathy for drug dealers, the activists said, and soon the politicians did, too. In that frenzy of compassion, it wasn’t the criminals who were demonized, but the victims.
Blue states across the country—especially California, Oregon, and Washington—spent the past decade as real-world laboratories of these radical theories. The result has been one of the worst humanitarian disasters in American history. And nowhere was it worse than my state: California, where soft policies were implemented first and most forcefully.
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Just look at the results:
- Proposition 36, a statewide measure to undo Prop 47, passed by 70 percent. The new law turns some misdemeanors into felonies (for example, shoplifting if it is a third offense), lengthens some felony sentences (i.e. smash-and-grab thefts involving three or more people), and requires some felonies to be served in prison (like fentanyl dealing). Notably, Governor Gavin Newsom opposed Prop 36. And Kamala Harris—who, recall, was California’s attorney general before becoming vice president—simply refused to comment on a bill that every single county in the state passed. (Even the former Sacramento district attorney who led the campaign to crack down on drugs and theft was shocked by the margin of victory. “I was expecting great numbers,” said Anne Marie Schubert, “but the 70 percent was amazing! It sends a powerful message to the rest of the country.”)
- In Los Angeles, voters took the unheard-of step of electing an actual Republican as district attorney, ousting from office a George Soros-funded DA, George Gascón.
- In Oakland, voters not only recalled the DA for all of Alameda County, they also recalled the mayor, Sheng Thao, who similarly hailed from the radical left and is being investigated by the FBI for possible corruption relating to city garbage contracts.
- In San Francisco, Mayor London Breed was defeated by Dan Lurie, who ran, in part, on a platform to increase police presence, increase shelter beds, and fight corruption.
Michael Shellenberger poses as a History-Less political naïf ? with no Memory of America’s political past, in sum a propagandist who attempts to erase actual History!
The ‘law and order’ campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House 50 years ago
Trump has invoked the same phrase as he campaigns for Republicans
The ‘law and order’ campaign that won Richard Nixon the White House 50 years ago – The Washington Post (retrieved November 11, 2024)
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August 30, 2008 | Clip Of Historic Convention Speeches: Richard Nixon
“Law and Order” in Richard Nixon 1968 Presidential acceptance speech
User-Created Clip
by CraigCaplanJuly 21, 2016
Miami Beach, Florida (retrieved November 11, 2024 http://www.c-span.)
The utter failure of the Neo-Liberal ascendency, that collapsed in 2006- 2008, has created a permanent under-class of its victims. Of not just a debacle, but of both economic catastrophes, wedded to a cultural/political despair that Michael Shellenberger self-willed political ignorance cannot, will not confront!
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology on JSTOR ( retrieved November 11, 2024 )
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