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A San Francisco business-owner who was on the verge of finally being able to re-open a salon emailed me to express her outrage that the San Francisco Board of Public Health had abruptly imposed a whole new raft of requirements that prevent her re-opening. My correspondent is a committed Democrat and fervently anti-Trump, but her email ended with a real cry from the heart. She’s sick of having the city use the virus to push her around and destroy her business. While I am genuinely sorry for her, I used the occasion of her email to suggest to her that this is a problem inherent in progressive Democrat governance. The following is what I wrote to her:
You have my deep and sincere sympathy for what you’re experiencing.
I know you’re not for Trump, but give me a minute to make my pitch. What you’re experiencing is the Democrats’ belief that government through experts creates bureaucracies that know better than you do about what’s important to you. In a nutshell, that’s the progressive Democrats’ prime selling point and has been since Woodrow Wilson: we’re the experts, and we know better. Most of the time, though, bureaucrats don’t know better.
I’ve long felt that we need most government regulations only when people cannot easily or reasonably acquire important information on their own. For example, in San Francisco, it’s useful to have building codes for earthquake safety, along with inspections. I would have no idea whether my contractor was building something that could collapse with the first little shake.
In the same way, I like having minimum standards for surgeons — again, this is because I have no way of knowing if the surgeon is good or not until it’s too late. more
Live by the Left, die by the Left.
mofo’s who could not run a lemonade stand r in charge of your life – thanks 2 libtard loy-uhs
As I have said many times: there are so many laws on the books that if people in power wanted to put you in jail, there is some law somewhere you have broken that would let them do it. You may not have known you broke the law. You may not have even known there was a law. If they want to get you, they can.
When you have a government quite comfortable, both with putting their hobnail boots on your neck while looking the other way when their thugs wreak havoc on your community as they move to defund law enforcement, you have a real problem as a citizen.
I think at least half of traditional democrat voters are having second thoughts on priorities. Abortion and climate change vs economic freedom and rule of law?
A caller into WMAL this afternoon spoke of he and his husband early voting in Virginia today. Lifelong democrats said they voted for Trump today.
Good sign.
Speaking of liberal lies exposed by the Wuhan/Antifa/BLM
follies, the Democrat notion that urban living and mass transit is a better and more sustainable lifestyle than suburban/exurban/rural lifestyle.
Now DC Metro are cutting down on transport routes due to lack of ridership and the cutting of federal funds.
Federal funds paid for by Coloradans, Michiganders, Nevadans, Iowans, etc to subsidize the movement of deep state lackeys. Not the ones who move about by limo.
I’m sure the same scenario is being played out with BART in SF and all major and minor cities nationwide.
PHenry – you couldn’t be more right. We lived in Loudoun Co. when they were bring rail to Dulles. My girlfriend tells me that because of no riders it’s become a homeless encampment. Yeah, let’s all go to lib utopia in the cities! He he, ho ho, ha ha!
You’re in the fix because you vote without thinking and sadly you’ll likely do the same thing next election.
I’ll save my pity for the victims of these control freaks who didn’t vote for it.
Socialism fits Lincoln’s definition of slavery: “You work. I eat.”
Wow, who does your hair?