The
People’s Republic of California prohibited state-funded travel to five more
Republican-led states recently because far left Golden State politicians purportedly
believe those states have passed legislation that could be seen as discriminating
against members of the LGBTQ community. (State agencies from the erstwhile Land
of Milk and Honey are prohibited from authorizing state-funded travel to
restricted areas under AB 1887, a bill passed in 2016, according to the
Sacramento Bee.) Arkansas, Montana, West Virginia, and Florida were added to
the existing list of 12 states to which state-sanctioned travel is verboten. Their
crimes were similar, in that all four had the audacity to ban males from
competing on girls’ sports teams. Arkansas went so far as to prohibit
physicians from lopping breasts and penises off of young people and giving them
drugs to “block” their puberty. (And Florida, of course, is led by Gov. Ron DeSantis,
who is to “progressives” as Kryptonite is to Super Man. DeSantis is such a
monster, he is even now attempting to enhance and protect “viewpoint diversity” on his
state’s college campuses! Diversity of kink is self-evidently worthy of
protection, but diversity of thought? That’s crazy!)
North Dakota made the list due to its egregious passage of
House Bill 1503 which seeks to codify “free speech protections for students and
faculty at North Dakota’s public colleges and universities.” If freedom of
speech is guaranteed, what’s next, freedom of assembly? Of religion? What some
of these red states are doing is nothing less than frightening!
Sarcasm aside, what California is doing is
frightening. When one state in the union effectively tries to prevent its people from traveling to other states in the union because
those states have certain policies and statutes with which its political
leaders disagree…well, so much for federalism and republicanism. And, at some
point, possibly, the union.
To a sentient, unbiased being with at least an adequate
knowledge of history, it is truly mind-boggling that so many almost perfectly
ignorant people today believe they know better than the American Founders how
to design a successful society, including all of its economic and political
institutions…and its raison d’ệtre. The Founders assiduously studied all
previous societies, economic systems and forms of government. They were
intimately familiar with the world’s religions and had nearly all read the
Bible. Most importantly, they were students of human behavior and connoisseurs
of the truth.
California’s leaders, like progressives everywhere, seem only
to know what can’t be so: men can be women and women can be men. Raising taxes
will help the economy. (Tax increases which now fund $60,000 tents for the homeless.) Subsidizing sloth,
indolence and drug use will help to alleviate sloth, indolence and drug use. Attacking
Christianity will lead to more tolerance. Defunding the police will lead to
less crime and more justice.
It is no wonder that people are fleeing California. In a
recent survey, conducted by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, 40% of the residents of San Francisco who
were polled said they planned to leave the city in the near future. 40%! Will
someone soon pen a Declaration of Independence from California?
California can try to keep its citizens from visiting red
states, but, ironically, it is forcing them to move to red states.
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