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FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE

The perverse world of Left-wing politics has degraded even the one area of purported objectivity—science. Confirmation of this view was made when Microsoft News revealed that scientists withheld their opinion that the Covid-19 virus originated in a lab because they felt that supporting President Trump would associate them with racism.

Alina Chan and 18 other scientists published a letter in the journal Science demanding a thorough study of the origin of the virus. The Chinese government has insisted that the origin of the virus was the result of animal-to-animal contact. The Trump administration believed that the origin was the Wuhan lab in Wuhan China, which is associated with the Chinese Army. Part of the lab’s known mission was gain of function research. Gain of function research has to do with making a virus more virulent, hence the Chinese army’s interest in the lab.  This lab is the only known one of its kind in China and successfully making a virus more potent made the Covid-19 a biological weapon.

President Trump repeatedly accused the Wuhan lab of either carelessly handling the virus or outright using it as a biological weapon. The later point seems to be unlikely because the Chinese killed some of its researchers and population at the outset of the pandemic which ensued. But like Leftist in the United States, they saw no reason to let a good crisis go to waste. So, instead of containing the disease in Wuhan alone, the Chinese released visiting non-Chinese back to their homes around the world as their stays ended. For China itself, they stopped flights out of Wuhan for other Chinese cities, thus contaminating the entire world, and minimizing the damage in China.

Getting back to Alina Chan and her cohorts, it turns out, according to Microsoft News and their source that: the “Researchers said the scientific evidence remained relatively unchanged but noted that “the context and circumstances of the origin debate have changed, NBC reported. One of the most notable changes in the “context” of the debate, according to Chan, was Trump’s departure from the White House.

Chan told NBC that some scientists had apprehensions about publicly discussing the lab leak possibility out of concern that their statements would be manipulated to suggest they were endorsing “racist” language about COVID’s origins in China — an apparent reference to Trump’s use of the phrase “Wuhan virus” and “Chinese Virus.”

‘At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,’ Chan said in the interview.’

The left constantly told the big lie—that Trump was a racist. If you repeat a lie often enough, some people will believe it regardless of the lack of evidence to that effect. By designating the disease the Wuhan virus or Chinese virus, Trump was merely describing its source, which was clear even in the early stages of the pandemic. There was no difference in that than there was 102 years earlier when describing the Spanish flu in 1918 by its assumed source. The true context of this was the death of George Floyd which launched the left-wing protests which have led to the loss of life and billions of dollars in destruction in American cities run by—guess who—leftists. Those leftists have now found a new demon in the police as a part of the hate they have spread to divide the United States. The topic of demonizing the police is for another day.

If this story wasn’t telling enough, the rest of the story has been mostly uncovered by a Conservative investigation into the underlying facts of the pandemic. The once unknown and now infamously discredited Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) knew of the likelihood of the Chinese lab release of the virus and its work on gain of function research. He knew about it because he helped pay for it with U.S. taxpayer dollars. In addition to his confusing, inconsistent advice on how to handle the pandemic he was simultaneously concealing his involvement in in the Wuhan lab itself. Notably, the U.S. government decided to contribute to the labs gain of function research, which was considered unethical and illegal in the United States.  This was the medical equivalent of outsourcing torture of terrorists to friendly allies whose ethics did not prohibit the practice.

Instead of giving Americans different versions of whether and when to wear masks, or originally advising President Trump that the virus was likely the equivalent of the annual flu and other fallacious assertions, he should have simply said, “I don’t know.” But the ego of a bureaucratic leader who does not treat patients took hold, and his advice proved devastatingly wrong, especially in advocating in favor of lockdowns. Even the World Health Organization—a Chinese tool itself—now says this is not the way to fight the pandemic of 2020.

A recent study by Dr. Stephen Smith as well as older studies validated President Trumps assertion and that of scientists in the early stages of the pandemic that the commonly used (and inexpensive) drug, Hydroxychloroquine, improved outcomes against Covid-19. The hate-Trump and deny him any sort of victory at any cost press dominated the debate by opposing the drug and cost many lives. The politicization of this drug and the indifference to it by Dr. Fauci and left-wing pundits does not speak well of journalists and bureaucrats.

What the story of Fauci and Chan tell us about our age is not flattering either. Now we know that science is not free of politics or outside influence. We have learned that what we are told is science, is not always true Even proven science takes many years to validate. What we must learn from Chan and Fauci, or perhaps re-learn, is that the truth is preferable to lies and self-deception, that hate has unintended repercussions, and that evil done in the name of good is still evil.

 

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THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

Flip Wilson, the comedian, knew humans were flawed. Famously, when contemplating his own imperfect actions, he said, “the devil made me do it.” The comment got a laugh every time he said it—and he said it often. The lack of personal responsibility is tied into his rationalization. Knowing that he had done something wrong, but seeking redemption, he blamed it on God’s unseen enemy. In the more recent Orwellian world of left-wing reasoning, the excuse has come in handy—the devil, though, is your local police officer, they say. And this is war.

The first thing that happens in war is that the enemy is dehumanized, stereotyped, and labeled.

Flip Wilson, the comedian, knew humans were flawed. Famously, when contemplating his own imperfect actions, he said, “the devil made me do it.” The comment got a laugh every time he said it—and he said it often. The lack of personal responsibility is tied into his rationalization. Knowing that he had done something wrong, but seeking redemption, he blamed it on God’s unseen enemy. In the more recent Orwellian world of left-wing reasoning, the excuse has come in handy—the devil, though, is your local police officer, they say. And this is war.

The first thing that happens in war is that the enemy is dehumanized, stereotyped, and labeled.

During World War II, the Japanese were “Japs,” the Germans were “Krauts,” and depictions of them were stylized and denigrating. This derives from the view that an enemy is sub-human, not like us, and therefore is expendable like a tree whose roots have begun to undermine the foundation of a house. Humans find it difficult to destroy another human life without this lowering of the standard. While it might be argued that an extra-dimensional force caused evil to spring up in Japan and Germany in the 1930-40s, the same case cannot be made for all foul actions in every detail of venality inherent in human beings. When these human characteristics of dehumanization spring up it is a definite indicator that war has broken out. What difference is there between hate directed at a people because they are black and those who are labelled as blue?

In the past few months, the United States has experienced a volcanic eruption of violence from the left. The devil that made them do it was Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Derek Chauvin who killed George Floyd. Without knowing the condition of his sole, it is difficult to determine whether the descriptive term is to be taken literally or figuratively, but the killing was caught on camera and was widely condemned by every facet of American society. But Chauvin’s quick arrest and that of the three other officers present was not sufficient for the Left.

Conservatism Bittersweet readers are sophisticated and know the facts, but for the record Conservatism Bittersweet will review what has happened recently. The killing of George Floyd set off protests against racism around the country. In order to show their biracial egalitarianism, the rioters destroyed black and white businesses. Some African Americans attempted to avoid the carnage by posting, “black owned” on their windows with mixed results.

Again, finding a true racist is hard work. Racists are there, but few fingers can be pointed directly except at Chauvin and three other officers. That fingers couldn’t be pointed at anyone but the Minnesota officers, was not a problem for the Left. All police were pronounced bad. Who likes symbols of authority? For some, conveniently snagging a television or Louis Vuitton bag as a remembrance of Mr. Floyd was insufficient solace for their loss. But others, having found a justification for their moral superiority expended their grief by parading with signs and ultimately making demands to defund the police. Who benefits from defunding the police? Correct Answer: Criminals.

The criminals pointed their fingers at statues of mostly dead white guys and tore them off their pedestals. Although not historically correct, they even demolished a statue of an abolitionist. That doesn’t matter because the Left rewrites history anyway. The worst of their damage was reserved for the police. Two officers were killed in the looting, David Dorn and Patrick Underwood. Hundreds of police officers were, verbally abused, thrown to the ground, beaten, stoned, clubbed, burned out of their headquarters, and mercilessly attacked by the vengeful mob of justice seekers. “WITHOUT JUSTICE, THERE CAN BE NO PEACE,” they said. Of course, they did this in the name of Mr. Floyds memory.

A little hate speech makes the point. They claim it is “rage,” which is a word of entitlement as opposed to the word “hate,” which is not so peaceful a word. One of their weaknesses is a lack of sense of irony.

So much for the peaceful approach. As noted, this is a war. Mark and Patricia McCloskey found that out when they tried to defend their St. Louis home. Reportedly, hundreds of protestors, some of them armed, broke down a gate and entered the McCloskey property to protest on behalf of Black Lives Matter, threatened the McCloskey’s and their dog with violence, but balked when the McCloskey’s appeared out of their renovated home bearing a pistol by her and an AR-15 by him. They did this only after calling the police and not receiving a response. Oops, someone fighting back. The mob retreated in a belief that the McCloskey’s were serious.

Within short order, there were arrests—the McCloskeys.

In a non-Orwellian world, the mob, or some part of it, would have been arrested by the police. But in the brave new world Americans now inhabit, the victims are arrested and the perpetrators go free. St. Louis Circuit District Attorney, Kim Gardner, the State’s attorney, charged each of the McCloskeys with one count of unlawful use of a weapon. If the weapon is not operable, it is not a crime. But wait minute. In a recent twist on the case, it has been reported that the two guns were found inoperable, but a police crime lab technician reassembled them into working condition. Voila, now it’s a crime. Actually not. The McCloskeys have some powerful allies. The Missouri governor and attorney general have stated their support and President Trump reportedly has ordered a U.S. police unit to guard the McCloskey residence. The governor said he will pardon them if convicted. Conviction is not likely as Missouri law protects people protecting their home.

Since the first of the rioting, the worst of it has abated. Except in Portland, Oregon which is now beyond its 60th day of downtown turmoil. President Trump sent in U.S. Marshalls to guard the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse. The Mayor blamed President Trump. Again, the upside down Left-world claims victimhood, yet continues to deny Portland citizens the right to use their downtown shops, businesses, and streets free from fear. Millions of dollars of destruction has taken place.

The left-wing press has had a field day portraying the victim police as the perpetrators for the sin of defending themselves against blinding laser beams aimed into their eyes, professional fireworks aimed and fired at them, and hard objects hurled by the “mostly peaceful” protestors. They are not playing by the “rules” according to Mayor Ted Wheeler. The Mayor thinks riots are a game. Here is the legal and moral truth: The police have a right to defend the Alamo-like Portland courthouse. They are the ones under attack by a class of professional haters. The livelihoods of Portlanders have been destroyed and a once beautiful city has been trashed. As collateral damage, the peaceful, but anti-racist protestors are now into their second month of rage. The actual justice seekers seem to be a combination of local Antifa and outside professional rioters who are financed well enough to enjoy the local upscale hotels. George Soros anyone? Just a guess. Well, anyway, the devil made them do it.

During World War II, the Japanese were “Japs,” the Germans were “Krauts,” and depictions of them were stylized and denigrating. This derives from the view that an enemy is sub-human, not like us, and therefore is expendable like a tree whose roots have begun to undermine the foundation of a house. Humans find it difficult to destroy another human life without this lowering of the standard. While it might be argued that an extra-dimensional force caused evil to spring up in Japan and Germany in the 1930-40s, the same case cannot be made for all foul actions in every detail of venality inherent in human beings. When these human characteristics of dehumanization spring up it is a definite indicator that war has broken out. What difference is there between hate directed at a people because they are black and those who are labelled as blue?

In the past few months, the United States has experienced a volcanic eruption of violence from the left. The devil that made them do it was Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Derek Chauvin who killed George Floyd. Without knowing the condition of his sole, it is difficult to determine whether the descriptive term is to be taken literally or figuratively, but the killing was caught on camera and was widely condemned by every facet of American society. But Chauvin’s quick arrest and that of the three other officers present was not sufficient for the Left.

Conservatism Bittersweet readers are sophisticated and know the facts, but for the record Conservatism Bittersweet will review what has happened recently. The killing of George Floyd set off protests against racism around the country. In order to show their biracial egalitarianism, the rioters destroyed black and white businesses. Some African Americans attempted to avoid the carnage by posting, “black owned” on their windows with mixed results.

Again, finding a true racist is hard work. Racists are there, but few fingers can be pointed directly except at Chauvin and three other officers. That fingers couldn’t be pointed at anyone but the Minnesota officers, was not a problem for the Left. All police were pronounced bad. Who likes symbols of authority? For some, conveniently snagging a television or Louis Vuitton bag as a remembrance of Mr. Floyd was insufficient solace for their loss. But others, having found a justification for their moral superiority expended their grief by parading with signs and ultimately making demands to defund the police. Who benefits from defunding the police? Correct Answer: Criminals.

The criminals pointed their fingers at statues of mostly dead white guys and tore them off their pedestals. Although not historically correct, they even demolished a statue of an abolitionist. That doesn’t matter because the Left rewrites history anyway. The worst of their damage was reserved for the police. Two officers were killed in the looting, David Dorn and Patrick Underwood. Hundreds of police officers were, verbally abused, thrown to the ground, beaten, stoned, clubbed, burned out of their headquarters, and mercilessly attacked by the vengeful mob of justice seekers. “No justice, No Peace,” they said. Of course, they did this in the name of Mr. Floyds memory.

A little hate speech makes the point. They claim it is “rage,” which is a word of entitlement as opposed to the word “hate,” which is not so peaceful a word. One of their weaknesses is a lack of sense of irony.

So much for the peaceful approach. As noted, this is a war. Mark and Patricia McCloskey found that out when they tried to defend their St. Louis home. Reportedly, hundreds of protestors, some of them armed, broke down a gate and entered the McCloskey property to protest on behalf of Black Lives Matter, threatened the McCloskey’s and their dog with violence, but balked when the McCloskey’s appeared out of their renovated home bearing a pistol by her and an AR-15 by him. They did this only after calling the police and not receiving a response. Oops, someone fighting back. The mob retreated in a belief that the McCloskey’s were serious.

Within short order, there were arrests—the McCloskeys.

In a non-Orwellian world, the mob, or some part of it, would have been arrested by the police. But in the brave new world Americans now inhabit, the victims are arrested and the perpetrators go free. St. Louis Circuit District Attorney, Kim Gardner, the State’s attorney, charged each of the McCloskeys with one count of unlawful use of a weapon. If the weapon is not operable, it is not a crime. But wait minute. In a recent twist on the case, it has been reported that the two guns were found inoperable, but a police crime lab technician reassembled them into working condition. Voila, now it’s a crime. Actually not. The McCloskeys have some powerful allies. The Missouri governor and attorney general have stated their support and President Trump reportedly has ordered a U.S. police unit to guard the McCloskey residence. The governor said he will pardon them if convicted. Conviction is not likely as Missouri law protects people protecting their home.

Since the first of the rioting, the worst of it has abated. Except in Portland, Oregon which is now beyond its 60th day of downtown turmoil. President Trump sent in U.S. Marshalls to guard the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse. The Mayor blamed President Trump. Again, the upside down Left-world claims victimhood, yet continues to deny Portland citizens the right to use their downtown shops, businesses, and streets free from fear. Millions of dollars of destruction has taken place.

The left-wing press has had a field day portraying the victim police as the perpetrators for the sin of defending themselves against blinding laser beams aimed into their eyes, professional fireworks aimed and fired at them, and hard objects hurled by the “mostly peaceful” protestors. They are not playing by the “rules” according to Mayor Ted Wheeler. The Mayor thinks riots are a game. Here is the legal and moral truth: The police have a right to defend the Alamo-like Portland courthouse. They are the ones under attack by a class of professional haters. The livelihoods of Portlanders have been destroyed and a once beautiful city has been trashed. As collateral damage, the peaceful, but anti-racist protestors are now into their second month of rage. The actual justice seekers seem to be a combination of local Antifa and outside professional rioters who are financed well enough to enjoy the local upscale hotels. George Soros anyone? Just a guess. Well, anyway, the devil made them do it.

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A HIJACK IN PLAIN SIGHT

A recent poll indicated that 80% of Americans believe America is out of control. Here’s why:

The year began with a partisan impeachment of the president and quickly morphed into a pandemic.

All cops are beneficial?

 

The pandemic caused great pain to Americans who lost their jobs in droves, seemingly overnight. And then the horrific killing of George Floyd resulted in protests that turned into a riot.

Congress is split between the hate of Democrats in the House of Representatives and the weakness of Republicans in the Senate. Little gets done.

Local politics are strained. Trashed American cities, almost exclusively run by Democrats are, like the US House of Representatives, equally crazed. Local officials let their preferred political allies violate the law and punish their political foes.

The nationwide legitimate emotional outrage at the torture killing of George Floyd was hijacked by radical leftists. In one case, the city of Seattle, permitted the creation of a no police zone known as CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), which morphed into the more manly CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest). Mayor Jenny Durkan promised a “summer of love” in CHAZ/CHOP. The radicals in charge of Seattle having created their own seven block enclave, which they occupied for several weeks managed two murders, an attempted murder, reported extortion, rape, and robbery. The Seattle police department was replaced by AR-15 and baseball bat toting thugs, who foreshadow the police of the future. Expect the worst as the logic of the moment advocates defunding the official police. Who most wants to defend the police? It is, of course, the criminals.

These same Democrats who have told us to keep social distancing overlook the excessive crowding and spread of disease as they feel chaos aids their socialist agenda

Are they talking about themselves?

and effort to prevent a second term for Trump. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio won’t allow Coronavirus contact tracers to ask whether a disease carrier was involved in a protest. These same Democrats who opposed large gatherings overlook the illegal nature of the protests, and riots since their one-party status allows them to get away with just about anything.

Oh, yeah, the stock market has plunged and looks worse all the time.

In Portland, Oregon, the result of left-wing exercise of their 1st Amendment rights equated with a hammer fest on local windows, looting and riot. At least no one was killed.

Americans cannot even pray for

If I can’t have it, you can’t have it either.

peace in their churches, synagogues or mosques. So, it is a wonder that 20% of the population remains more optimistic than the rest. And, yes, that is the report for only the first half of 2020.

The last four years have seen Obama holdovers in America’s intelligence agencies, Department of Justice and FBI spy on the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, launch an investigation based on an unsubstantiated, and ultimately proven false report requested by and paid for by the opposite party’s candidate, Hillary Clinton.

The country also witnessed by the magic of video replay the Democrat’s current presumed presidential candidate, Vice President Joe Biden, order Ukraine’s government to stop investigating a local company, Burisma, fire the prosecutor who was doing the investigation, which they did, or lose the billion dollars the Obama administration promised otherwise.

When President Trump reported these facts to the government of Ukraine, which was required by treaty, the Democrats launched an investigation against the president on the grounds that ??? that he exposed a Democrat attempt to cover up his own misuse of American aid, contrary to American law. Oh, yeah, the Democrats undertook an investigation in which secret testimony, much of it exculpatory to the president, was withheld and prevented Republicans from calling their own witnesses or revealing the favorable testimony to the president and the public. On this basis, the impeachment of the president was launched. The House of Representatives impeached the president based on a strictly party line vote. The Senate failed to convict on a party line vote.

Not quite sure how Jesus and Trump got into this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, hear it is. With the November election on everyone’s mind, the American people will decide whether they will punish the victim and reward the perpetrator of unjust attacks supported by media elites, or defend the country against such abuses of power. You will get what you ask for.

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TILT THE BOARD AND RUN OVER THE LITTLE GUY

California, Oregon and the State of Washington (also known as the Left Coast) are known as left-wing elitist bastions controlled by one-party Democratic majorities. They have sold their futuristic world-based electorates on climate scares, imminent environmental disasters, abortion restrictions, government compassion and other modern slogans granting passage to the favorable future. But they are the Democrats, the party of compassion—that is until you encroach on the turf of the moneyed class. Then it becomes the party of the rich.

 

Proof of this lies in a National Review article by Michael Gibson who reports that “San Francisco has virtually banned new housing. It forbids apartments of all shapes and sizes, limits the number of units per property, caps the number of small “shoebox” units to a few hundred and has outlawed building anything higher than 40 feet in 80 percent of the city.” He goes on to say: “The medium price for a one-bedroom rental is the highest in the nation, at $3700 per month. To buy a single-family home, a starter home with flaking and rotting surfaces, a family needs $1.5 million on average and had better be paying cash. The cost to construct a single new apartment unit is over $700,000 nearly triple what it was a decade ago.”

San Francisco has robbed its citizenry of the means to live in their own city. Teachers, police, and other emergency personnel can’t afford to live in the city they protect. Through environmental and historical preservation rules and regulations, the city has made it nearly impossible to build new shelter. The city government accommodates this arrangement. The canary in the coal mine is African Americans. Their population has gone from 13 percent in 1970 to 5 percent today. When did the Democrats become the party of racism? Perhaps a little affirmative action is due our friends in the cable car city.

 

In another article in National Review, Kevin D. Williamson describes how Aspen, Colorado has become a play center for “billionaires and baristas.” Millionaires need not apply. You haven’t got what it takes to break into this elite spot unless you own something really big or important—a football team, a large dotcom corporation will do nicely. Another legal monopoly insulates the moneyed class from the rest of society. The baristas are regarded as a needed exception to the rule. Lesser mortals need not apply.

 

Portland, Oregon is undergoing a similar transition to an elitist playground. What it is becoming is the result of spillage from some of California’s lesser lights who have left the Bay area for cheaper, more politically neutral territory, not unlike the homey places some of them grew up. Portland has the virtue of being an incipient San Francisco. In an effort to trump the agents of change, the governor of Oregon, Kate Brown, placed the territorial designation intended by the Trump Administration as an “Opportunity Zone” on some of the most valuable property in Oregon. The purpose of the opportunity zones was to help develop impoverished and blighted inner cities by making tax concessions to developers in the area who were least likely to need any help. She placed the opportunity smack dab in the middle of the most prosperous growth area in downtown Portland. No doubt, this was intended as a smackdown of Trump Administration Populism, despised by the ruling class, and also the effect was to give impetus to cheaper construction of expensive properties, many of which would have happened anyway. Other than spiting Trump, a part of the motivation for the curious designation was the Governors desire to benefit the city’s client construction companies, which in turn rewards the city with “affordable housing.” Cheap housing is not possible in much of the downtown environment, so the Federal advantages cover some of the extra cost of the affordable housing. Affordable housing is in the eye of the beholder though, and for sure, affordable in the swank area does not even enter into the conversation of the homeless lying in tents in the street below. Another strategy redistributes the poor to the better-off  outlying area of town so they reap the benefits of suburban life and learn from the example of middle class Portlanders. It is a condescending approach to social engineering that will fail as the affordable homes become less affordable over time.

 

Sadly, the egalitarian spirit which once limited the elites to their closely held property has been lost. Now the monopolistic tendency reinvents itself as a modern version of the serfdom of the Middle Ages in which a large castle surrounded by a moat separates the producers from the users. Human behavior remains the same. Uniting with those with whom you have something in common and separating from the “other” is a common value of wealthy elites. They might make the argument that it is genetics, but why bother. They have it and you don’t. Some separation is a quality of the huddling effect our ancient ancestors felt when they were small in number, couldn’t explain much about their environment, and heard the growling of sharp-toothed carnivores off in the distance during the night. The fear of the unknown has been translated into its modern equivalent.

 

The nature of huddling is also a power move. It gives the appearance of elevating the one in charge at the expense of the obedient servant. To the elite, it gives the false impression of security. But security is an illusion. Just ask Marie Antoinette. Actually, you can’t. The legal exclusion of the larger piece of society as determined by power and wealth through legal means, will only put the revolution off so long.

 

For most people, living in San Francisco does not have great value. Average citizens make themselves happy or unhappy, wherever they are. But the use of legal means to determine a narrowing of the human race, is fundamentally undemocratic. It is a spreading disease of bad faith. The social contract is a myth, but we live together in a common desire for peace. There is a struggle going on. Rules still apply, but only barely. The practice of not enforcing laws as a matter of acquiring political mileage is another step backward. Those who profess opposition to exclusion are often the leaders of the most exclusive clubs. In Los Angeles, the golden triangle of Beverly Hills, Holmby Hills, and Bel Air lie well above the day to day events of the common folk in the smog filled low lands. But here is a lesson. You must look the part and act the part. Just ask Charles Belk. A black man with upright A-credentials as an upstanding citizen was humiliated and arrested while walking black in Beverly Hills. Officers on the scene identified him as the perp in a Citibank robbery. He matched the description of the thief—a tall, bald black man. Turns out there are more than a few of those in LA. However, none of the others were handy, so Mr. Belk became the catch of the day.

 

The quintessential modern mote is found in the State of Washington. Bill Gates and a host of Microsoft digital cowboys have come to rest behind the safety of Lake Washington. Reputedly, Gates has drilled a hole for access to the grounded earth through the hills backstopping his estate. Mountains and water are visual proof of the landed plutocrats running a portion of the left coast not generally accessible to the public.

 

The holy alliance between elitist Democrats and America’s version of the landed gentry is an ever-expanding growth opportunity for two parasites feeding off each other in an unholy symbiotic arrangement that marginalizes everyone else. It is as if the plutocrats where ahead in the game, dumped the board, and announced, “I win.”