
“Anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.
Now read this article, The Dead-End Left, about the death spiral of One Party (Democrat) Cities and States in the USA, along with this most recent piece of news:
New York protesters have denounced radical politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for ardent support of illegals. One demonstrator told the press that he had several relatives waiting seven years to be legally admitted. “They have paid all the immigration fees and have been fingerprinted by the FBI. They have done everything right . . . so why not them?” he asked.
Because they’re not the victim group of the day for the US Left. Is this not obvious?
Plenty more where that came from in an article that actually looks more at the massive internal immigration that’s occurring in the US from Democrat States to Republican ones. Whether it’s taxes, regulation, crime or Net Zero Energy the former are killing themselves. Why it’s almost as if they’ve never studied history, even their own history:
In 1973, Coleman Young, an African American former labor organizer with ties to the American Communist Party, ran for mayor of Detroit. Young narrowly beat the city’s police commissioner, partly by arguing that cops targeted minorities. Once in office, Young rolled back enforcement and slashed the police force by 20 percent. Detroit’s crime exploded. Businesses and middle-class residents fled the city; polls showed a majority of whites feeling threatened. Detroit’s economy and social order collapsed during Young’s two-decade mayoralty. “He left the city a fiscal and social wreck,” as political scientist James Q. Wilson wrote. Yet he kept getting reelected by larger margins, as his black support stayed strong.
Yeah. But of course there is that thing they reference called The Curley Effect, named after an Irish politician in Boston who strengthened his support among his Irish supporters but screwing the WASP component to the extent that they left the city – which simply pushed him to larger wins in each election for the next forty years – something Mayor Coleman would replicate in Detroit decades later.
But a greater reform wave has yet to emerge, partly because the state Curley Effect is at work. An effort to recall Gavin Newsom, after California’s brutal Covid lockdowns damaged his standing, failed, and in Chicago, which dominates Illinois politics, voters recently elected a former teachers’ union official and strident defund-the-police mayor, Brandon Johnson, despite escalating crime.
The following is so sad:
New Jersey governor Murphy and his Connecticut counterpart Ned Lamont sent letters appealing to businesses in Republican states to relocate, “where they can be confident that the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and voters will always be protected,” as Murphy’s letter put it.
I do like that the article references Adam Smith’s famous observation:
“there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”