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To some, it’s still a mystery as to how the bombastic and unfiltered GOP front runner can continue to amass greater and greater support numbers even as critics from both sides of the political divide push back against his rhetoric.  We’ve heard to death, the media’s explanation that this is a reflection of voters’ anger with Washington elites.  That’s only part of it and this explanation overlooks the real reason for their anger.

Intelligent people don’t like to be told what to think.   The subtle coercion of thought by media, by entertainment, by politicos and by educators has morphed into a cultural regime more resembling fascism on the part of the leftist/liberal orthodoxy over the past few generations.  It gets increasingly difficult to express an opinion which doesn’t offend the sensibilities of some victimized subset of society.  Or worse, to attack the sacred cows which are dear to the anointed intelligentsia.  I’ve written at length about the preposterousness of the ever morphing Global Warming charade, but this may get more difficult if some legislators get their way.  There have actually been proposals  about making any skeptical discussion of Global Warming illegal with consequent jail sentences!    So if you don’t hear again from me for a while, check the local hoosegow.

In Chicago yesterday, thousands of ‘socially conscious’ protestors thought it was their duty to disrupt a speech by Trump…well that and some money from moveon.org.  This seems to be the standard response from the tolerant and inclusive left who think that freedom of speech is fine… as long as you agree with them. Odd that no one notices the parallel with fundamental Islamists banning unacceptable speech in that regime.  It was like watching Kanye West jumping on stage to interrupt Taylor Swift at an awards show.  As The Donald would invoke, you just want to punch him in the neck.

You can imagine an average person watching these events unfold from their living rooms in Nebraska, or Kansas, or Montana and saying to themselves, “Wait, who  said those idiots speak for me?” These normally politically inactive people decide to support Trump just because he represents them; the silent majority who for years silently endured the ongoing creep of ‘rightthink’ in their lives because it was easier than standing up individually.  They see in Trump, someone who finally has the cojones to push back, something they wish they themselves could do. They support the guy even though he exhibits the worst public manners, the most narcisstic ego and the most cartoon-like policy proposals.  He may be obnoxious but he represents the unspoken sentiments of a large, long silent, disenfranchised majority.

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When attending university, one of the main tenets of logic taught is the concept of cause and effect.  While that concept can be very fuzzy in the social sciences field, in the realm of hard sciences, where results do matter, this leads to discovery and knowledge.   In fact, one of the foundations of the scientific method is the ability to replicate a result given a set of variables.  At no time in my undistinguished school career did achieving the same dismal result from the same flawed inputs garner me any academic accolades.  Quite the contrary.  If I was expected to achieve result A on an experiment, it behooved me to find variables X, Y, or Z that would lead to the desired outcome.   Continuing to input variables U, V and W would not lead to desired outcome A.  In fact it would lead to the very undesirable outcome of  D, or F.

In the real world, this logic is apparently discarded as soon as the cap and gowns are returned to the rental company.  When you observe the behaviour of people in their everyday lives for example, it is clear that for most, the logic of cause and effect has been discarded as a quaint educational relic, like cursive writing.  In the real world, people somehow lose their ability to reason with any clarity and are easily swayed by those who offer an impossible logic.  The mesmerizing allure of lottery tickets are but one example of mass delusion.  It is in the area of politics however that we find the most delusional behaviour. 

According to the linked article, the City of Camden, New Jersey is now on the verge of having to lay off police and firemen in their bid to stem their budget deficit.   Naturally, this makes headlines because in the “most crime ridden city in America”, this is incongruous.  I know nothing about Camden, New Jersey, but from all accounts of articles relating to this city, it isn’t exactly Disneyland North.  What we do discover is a pattern that seems to appear among  major cities struggling under enormous budget deficits.  That common denominator is that they are all run by governments controlled by the Democratic party.   Coincidences happen of course, like having the only lighter in a bar when Charlize Theron pulls out a cigarette.  More likely however, there is a cause and effect thing happening in the case of big deficits and Democratic governments.  Exhibit A, a list of some of the largest US cities and their accompanying deficits:

Los Angeles, budget shortfall of $408 million

Chicago, budget deficit of $655 million

Philadelphia, greater than $1 billion dollar deficit

San Francisco $380 million dollar budget deficit

Washington DC $688 million dollar deficit

New York city, $4 billion dollar deficit, not to mention an unfunded pension liability of $59 Billion!

Is it purely a coincidence that all of these cities are controlled by Democratic party governments?  I include New York because for decades, until Giuliani, it was a Democratic stronghold.  Even Bloomberg, who now casts himself as an Independent leans convincingly left.  The question is, why do they keep putting Democrats in office?  There’s ample and glaring evidence that those affiliated with the party are incapable of sound fiscal management.  They run on the same platform of Something For Nothing, or SFN (which could also mean Same Fricking Nonsense ) and people continue to believe them.  The price paid for them getting into office however, always seems to be borne by the weary taxpayer.  The fix seems to be predictable; raise taxes or ‘lay off teachers, police and firemen’.  Somehow, excessive entitlements and waste never get laid off.   As this is being written comes news that the city of Berkeley in California wants to make transgender surgical procedures a perk of employment. 

If people want a different result, they’d better stop pursuing the same input.  Maybe try option B.