Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show covers ever so much ground, as per usual. Brian and I shoot the rapids of the Strait of Hormuz, we amble through the bucolic splendor of the Donbass, and we even pay a visit to the state of my birth -- California -- to consider whether it is sliding into anarchy or ascending to the status of a progressive utopia...and we ask whether California voters care either way. It's a super duper show, and you'd be gaga to miss it!
https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-6-6-26/
In other news, don't look now, but the U.S. economy is chugging along just fine, DESPITE the supposedly catacysmic effects of the "war" with Iran. Makes you wonder what this economy will look like when a hobbled Iran begs for terms, as it surely will, sooner or later...
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteI was raised on The Left Coast (Sorry, West Coast) in Oregon and California, and graduated from High School in Carlsbad, CA back in the day. The so called Golden State was already going down the sewer then, with the Hippie movement already active in The San Francisco Bay area, where it was conceived.
Long before that, SOCAL, with special focus on L.A. was already a solidly entrenched lair of decadence. Come to think of it, the entire state was always nutty in a way that is hard to describe. Of course, "normal" people still live there, but many can't always leave, or don't have the means to do so.
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteAt one time, I thought that Northern California could break off and become a second state. However, I have changed my mind after reading up on the shenanigans at Bethel Church in Redding, California. Check them out. Also, I am sure you are aware that California is the birthplace of some questionable forms of religion anyway. The whole place is showbiz !
Ray from Jack: The depravity we now know was inevitable with the silly flower power phenomenon was a result of the always opportunistic cynical criminal low lifes' quick realization that they had an endless supply of "pigeons" in that youthful multitude. Of course they did! That is just common sense. After all , illegal drugs, once regarded as a sure sign of personal descent into the gutter, became beloved of affluent campus lotus eaters. Worse, they actually thought it profound and productive of exalted social activism. The goofy collegians of the '50s never thought of affording that honor to panty raids , goldfish swallowing, phone booth stuffing and beer blasts. Then they grew up!
ReplyDeleteIn New York we saw early signs in the the murder of James "Groovy" Hutchinson , an renowned young sage in already smoky and reflexively America spurning Greenwich Village , in '66. And we all know now that once the bad asses invested renowned Haight-Asbury 's brief "summer of love" it was cynically debauched. Looks like Frisco never recovered from that. Gee, isn't that where Newsom came from?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re the Newsmaker broadcast 6/6/26: Yes, Newsom. Your comment that Newsom's experiment in reducing California to complete DSA/Dem (my term)control is a success hits it on the head.
ReplyDeleteOne of Marxism's fundamental goals is to seize the power to force arbitrary policy on subjected populations. Such policy may change at any time in response to the whims of its dictators. The 20th century affirms this in its history of impossible"5 Year Plans", "Struggle Against" (once exalted ) figures, like, say, Confucius and "get the hell out of your Phnom Penh home right now and proceed to reeducation camp out in the jungle". The inspiration and object is to have the unquestionable power to direct all aspects of everyday life in a once doctrinally perverse society.
It was once opined that "absolute power corrupts absolutely" Marxism affirms the wisdom of that observation . Ok, California is still a democracy of sorts and some possibility of restoration of common sense policy making there might obtain. Marxism has usually taken power by force in gravely wounded and desperate countries. Its "American" proponents have since the ' 60s clearly demonstrated their fanatic intent to invest a US which enjoys unprecedented high quality of life. But they have had to develop a new way to take over. The incipient totalitarianism manifested by such as Newsom and gaining power once again, may be exemplary of that strategy.