Once again it is time for some Random Musings On Current Events from the mind of a quiet, unassuming (at least in my own opinion) person observing the ramblings, rumblings, rants, raves and revelations in the media from behind the front lines of a purple state. I present these ramblings, rumblings, rants and revelations in a sort of stream of conscious journal format and, yes, there may be some sarcasm thrown in.
For starters The Conservative Constitutionalist did not do his usual note of Thanksgiving yesterday but I do hope all of my very few readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day with family, friends, or if even by themselves. Personally, I read in the past week or say that one of the best ways to connect with God is to give thanks in whatever circumstances one is in. I have been working at this connection thing with God and realized just how easy it is when busy to just say thank you and by having gratitude I can shift my attitude and perception of the world around me. I say this because often times I do focus on what is wrong rather than being thankful for what is good even in the worst circumstances. So, I believe in the future there is a good chance, all foreshadowing intended, that my ramblings, rumbles and rants will have some gratitude and thanks intermixed in them.
For starters, how lucky are we that we have Thanksgiving Day? We can be thankful to the native inhabitants of this land for providing and essentially bailing out the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in what is now Massachusetts those centuries ago. We can thank them for sharing what is native and sustaining in the new land with the European settlers who would turn on and conquer them in due course. However, in the course of the European conquest many of the tribal wisdom did make it into the unique American culture such as the roots of our Constitution. I think that it is high time that more of that wisdom be explored and interwoven into our unique culture but, again, that is a subject for another time and another day. In the meantime I just want to give thanks.
I send my prayers out the victims in Hong Kong who have perished, been injured, and or who have been displaced in the high rise apartment fire that consumed several buildings.
Now I am moving on to California politics and I only do this because of some reading that I am doing and my familiarity with the state. My commentary really only comes as questions and though I believe I know the answer I must first state the questions. How is it that the Governor of a state government that is purposely destroying the state’s energy independence, has an out of control homeless problem, has rampant drug problems in many of its farming and rural counties, does not prosecute crime, has runaway costs of living seems to be a front runner for the nomination for the US Presidency from one of the two major political parties in the United States?
To answer the question I am aware that the state has become run like a petty third world country that is ruled and governed by a very small elite. One only has to look at Mexico, which ironically California was a part of until the Mexican American war in the 1850’s when it was called Alta California or the Philippines for examples. Countries in which a small number of families, about twenty in the Philippines and similar numbers in Mexico. However, in California it is purportedly a smaller number. Same say four families but it could easily be a few more depending on how one does the math. Regardless, the numbers are small and, in these countries, as well as in California, they work to disenfranchise the middle class and will use whatever means are necessary to accomplish this and to maintain their power.
I can remember being in the Philippines when I was younger and that purportedly to spend the night with a prostitute cost somewhere between $5 and $20 per night. I also heard that one could take a contract out to kill a man for $200. Life was that cheap and the vast majority of the population lived on the border of starvation and lived in ramshackle structures. However, the gilded elites lived above this poverty, had no problem being fed, and lived in gilded mansions. Heck Imelda Marcos had an obscene number of shoes supposedly spread amongst their many mansions. Mexico is no different and the cartels that are run like petty dictatorships value little of life outside of their elites. In California I do not know how anyone can afford a starter home let alone raise a family nowadays, especially considering the decades old flight of industry, brain power and now the energy sector, for example Chevron, leaving the state and refineries being shut down. How much will the California farmers have to pay for fuel when there are no more refineries and will California continue to be the breadbasket that it once was? Sure the tech boom and Silicon Valley has provided some value but I believe one could consider this sector to be way overvalued. One has to wonder.
I am sorry but Gavin Newsom and the corrupt one party communist state that you govern is not what I want for my country. You, your Aunt Nancy D’Alesandro-Pelosi and others before and around you have gotten away with it for decades because you have squeezed the producers and given them nothing in return. Instead you systematized the voter machine fraud guaranteeing Democrat party dominance while destroying any opposition from the Republican Party or others. If you ask me if I believe there has been an honest election in California in the last twenty to thirty years, I will say no. In fact, you exported this to Hawaii in the late 1990s or early 2000’s and most likely Oregon and Washington around the same time and now I have to question these states as well. The latest states to receive your poisoned exports are Arizona and Nevada, thanks to the COVID sham, have gone the same way. The luster of the Golden, Silver and Copper States are now all tarnished. You do not fool me and I can only hope and pray others see this as well and I do believe others have begun to see the corrosive effect of your policies. Heck, even Hollywood is leaving California and they are a main propaganda arm of the UC Berkeley Frankist’s that have infected the entire West Coast. One can only hope in new environs that they will not spread the disease to the rest of the country though based on what we have seen in Georgia one has to wonder.
Speaking of Hollywood and the Southland where Hollywood is located and Los Angeles. The Los Angeles City Council, in which at least two or three members are open socialists, one has to wonder why the rebuilding after the fires this last year has been so moribund? To me it is obviously a ploy to displace the old residence and put new high density homes in place. It is to starve and wait out the original residence in order to pick up prime property on the cheap and divvy up the spoils. Your opaque and apparent mishandling means nothing more to me than it is a purposeful attack to destroy more of the middle class. The new owners, after the politically connected developers are finished, will see a revaluing of the property and the extra tax income will be much higher than the original owners who were protected by Proposition 13 rules. It is disgusting and I see you and through it.
Lastly, because typing this ramble and rant has drained me. I thank God for such a beautiful state and for the opportunity to have spent time in many of its locals. I know it is for this reason that so many have flocked to the state. I can only pray that the current stewards can get out of the way and allow the beauty and economic vibrancy of the state to return. I have to believe that the Frankish, Communist, Socialist way is not the way to return the brilliant luster of the state because it will only serve to tarnish everything that is golden about the state. If the current stewards of California are so good at what they do, I have to ask, why does California have some if not the most restrictive gun laws in the nation? Why does the state have the worst energy policies in the nation to forces productive industry and companies to flee? Why does the state bow down every idea that is antithetical to the principals on which this country was founded and lastly why does California insist on exporting all these ideas outside of the state? The only conclusion that I can currently come up with is the current stewards are corrupt, power hungry, have no Christian moral foundation and are scared to death of losing their positions of power, influence, and opulence. They are parasites and are getting ready to move to the next host because California is rapidly becoming a dead host with no more luster.
God bless America and all her citizens and residents, no matter whether they are enemies, not enemies or somewhere between. Additionally, forgive me for my trespasses as I forgive those who trespass against me.