On their podcast today, Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky talk about much that has gone wrong in Southern California.
One insight you may gain is the commonality amongst all Leftist politicians, which is their complete inability to handle the basics of running a community. They ignore all of that and instead focus on future distractions like bike lanes and eliminating cars, things that most people don’t want.
I do not think you understand the job of the community organizer.
“The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.” ~ Saul Alinsky
THE FIRST JOB IS TO CREATE PROBLEMS.
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Are you getting it? Is there something that is not clear? Do you need some help?
“The first step in community organization is community disorganization. The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward community organization. Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns…. All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.” ~ Saul Alinsky
It would be instructive to read the second paragraph detailing the beliefs of those behind Alinski:
“You have been taught to insidiously plant the seeds of jealousy and hatred between communities, provinces, states that were at peace, and incite them to deeds of blood, involving them in war with each other, and to create revolutions and civil wars in countries that were independent and prosperous, cultivating the arts and the sciences and enjoying the blessings of peace. To take sides with the combatants and to act secretly with your brother Jesuit, who might be engaged on the other side, but openly opposed to that with which you might be connected, only that the Church might be the gainer in the end, in the conditions fixed in the treaties for peace and that the end justifies the means.”
– Jesuit Fourth vow
After a lifetime of sowing division and promoting communism, Saul Alinsky was awarded with the Pacem in Terris Award, a Catholic peace award.
Given to both open and covert Catholics.
Kevin, you just described Obama.
Run a community? The job assigned to the leftists by the bastards who bankroll their operations is to destroy it—and replace it with something more to the liking of their paymasters.
Blockbusting is a global pastime, and leftist local governments are generally only too happy to help, at least in the early stages.
1. Take a safe, affordable and prosperous community.
2. Force landlords to rent to the diverse and vibrant.
3. Allow crime to shoot up unchecked.
4. Wait for anybody who can leave to do so, selling for pennies on the dollar.
5. Bulldoze the resulting slum to make way for “luxury” apartments for sale only to the local elite and to foreign investors in need of a western passport or a home in the west for their little emperors and empresses.
6. Pocket the profits.
7. Repeat.
Where to begin … ? Let me START at my trip to Arizona this past weekend to attend a memorial service. Well, the trip started with my Uber driver’s Prius alternating between traffic jams (on a Sat. morning) and driving roads in such disrepair that his wheels were almost shaking off the the nasty little eco vehicle. Because I am not driving, I get to enjoy the vistas of multiple homeless encampments on our way to the ugliest, airport in the entire United States – Oakland International (gawd, what those “International” travelers must be impressed) … whose motto is “fly Oakland” (I believe a double entendre having to do with LSD). Hint: I believe the inefficient TSA employees, who have created a Disneyesque serpentine queue of several hundred people, are all ON LSD.
Contrast and compare to …
Land in a spotlessly clean, logically organized, efficient, Sky Harbor airport whose motto is “America’s friendliest airport” (seemed like it to me). Lots of services, all Disneyesque sparkling new and clean. Other than having to endure a curiously LONG shuttle ride to the HUGE remote rental car facility, with multi-story shaded parking garage, It was as if I had just flown from a third world African nation to a first world capital of finance.
Pick up the rental car, and start driving the wide, spacious, smooth, modern freeways of the Phoenix metro area. Freeways that mostly appear as if they were JUST expanded and finished last week. Clean, smooth, and beautiful with appropriate desert landscape and artistic touches to soften the brutalism of concrete and asphalt. Quite a shocking contrast to the broken pavement, potholes and homeless shantytowns of my local Hwy24 to Interstate 880. And as we drive further and further toward Wickenburg AZ … the roads are like paved clouds. There is not so much as hairline crack in roads which must survive one of the harshest environments on the planet. And there are somehow far more lanes available than the traffic can fill. Broad, wide, freeways making my driving safe and enjoyable. Pull into Wickenburg and the first thing that hits my eyes is a neon sign shining $2.65/gal. Wha-wha-whaaat? gasoline $2.65/gal.? I just paid $4.35/gal. in my CA hometown. How is this even possible! (Yes, I know my Canadian friends … you’d happily pay $4.35/gal.).
Someone needs to explain to me how a place like Phoenix can spend far fewer gasoline and auto registration tax dollars to create, maintain, expand, and improve their freeways to a dramatically higher standard than CA? Nevermind, I know the answer.
I know you know the answers, but putting in the numbers: Illegal immigrants and their children cost the State of California a net $30.29 billion per year. This equates to $7,352 per illegal alien, or roughly 17.7 percent of California’s state budget. While many of these costs are absorbed by the federal and local governments, the drain on the State of California remains significant.
https://nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/02/21/costs-illegal-immigration-california/
And California spends $ 42.3 B on welfare by state and local agencies. That is more than one fifth the national total, with less than one eighth the national population. Almost half of the homeless in the U.S. are in California.
The last thing California politicians worry about is infrastructure. Look what happened two years ago when they had to use runoffs from dams for the first time in a long time.
As to gasoline, gas sold in California requires a special formulation due to more stringent emission standards. It seems like it has always been more expensive.
When i started in journalism I covered many small municipal council meeting, meetings which could go on until midnight with discussion on doing real stuff. Boring to me, but of great importance to residents. I remember thinking big city councils must be really busy, but I later discovered it’s primarily because they consider their jobs to include international affairs and anything else.
Your assessment is accurate. I was on (a small) town council for 9 years and during that time got more than enough exposure to the typical bigger town / city Councillors. Most had little understanding of how their sewage systems worked (if from Victoria and surrounding municipalities, that was irrelevant) but much of what they tried to accomplish was solving provincial, federal and planetary “problems” with signaled virtue.
“They ignore all of that and instead focus on future distractions like bike lanes and eliminating cars, things that most people don’t want.” – that describes virtually all councils now with housing affordability thrown in despite that local governments are largely responsible for high costs.
Is eco-Victoria still dumping its sewage in the ocean?
Just wondering if the sewage treatment plant is finished.
I was told that the capacity of the plant is such that they will have to discharge sewage into the ocean when there is heavy rain. Apparently sanitary and storm sewers are connected in parts of the city. Don’t know if this is true.
Anyway I make sure I don’t eat sewage salmon from BC.
It is planned to be completed in 15 months with the Feds and Province funding at least half of it. It helps when Horgan and Weaver are two of the turds that currently flush directly in the Straight.
fantastic opp here to again remind SDA et al the REASON roads, schools, soc services,
infrastructure (all dealt with previously here) are in shambles, is . . . . . . . .
courtesy the prison guard union lobbyists who glommed onto ‘3 strikes’ as a way to guaranteed employment, increased employment, increased budget, power et friggin CETERA, allll with the blessing of californicate voters and polllllitiSHUNS who immediately ‘yumped on the bandwagon’, virtue signalling, votes, bla bla bla. without . . . . . wiiiiiiiiithout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
a titch of a 2nd glance called ‘anyt’ing worng wit dis hidea? ANY flaws, loopholes, unintended consequences?’
and so, prisons were built, new staff hired, convicts hauled off the street for 20 years because they pocketed a stick of gum.
or was it a pair of socks?
so SDA, dont forget this little unpleasant truth about socially progressive californicate and the power of unions and the lobby cystem.