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California is Now a Woke Basket Case Whose Rich and Poor Are Fleeing Alike

by Will Jones
7 August 2022 2:32 PM

Zoe Strimpel in the Telegraph today has a scorching column setting out all the reasons that woke, authoritarian California has become a basket case state where no one (except illegal immigrants, who get showered with freebies) wants to live. Her tee-up is Nick Clegg’s decision to relocate from the Golden State to rainy Blighty.

Clegg’s Remainiac heart notwithstanding, he is one of thousands who no longer feels even remotely Californian. Rich and poor are calling time on the Golden State. Billionaires Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of Oracle, Joe Lonsdale, founder of Palantir, and Elon Musk of Tesla, have all relocated their companies to cheaper, friendlier states. Even Mark Zuckerberg’s main residence is Hawaii.

For everyone else, with remote work becoming mainstream in Covid lockdowns, net emigration has hit record highs. In 2021 the population of California fell by 117,500. People are fed up of soaring taxation, the high cost of living, groaning regulation, an authoritarian impulse on full show during Covid, and stagnating job growth. The heavy-handed state continually fails to solve the lethal social problems that are on permanent display, from mass shootings, which happen about every eight days (this is still lower than the national average), to spiralling homelessness. California’s dynamism and sense of possibility – where, despite high prices and social strains, those with hustle and good ideas could become fantastically successful – has been sucked dry. Why would you stay?

It is sobering to watch the state most associated with the miracles of American capitalist and creative glories become scorched earth – consumed with fires both real (this year has already seen whole settlements in northern California razed by flames) – and metaphorical.

The sad truth is that California is reaping what it has sown: not simply with its heavy-handed regulation, but in its deep and committed embrace of wokeness, which permeates from its courts via Hollywood to schools and hospitals. The ideological disintegration of the state was always going to hasten its economic decline and now, as the rest of the country descends into full-scale cultural war in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade and the ghastly normalisation of mass shootings, there is no wider structure to act as a bolster.

The Californian rot, long in place, became pronounced in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in 2020. Amid soaring crime rates, the mayors of both Los Angeles and San Francisco announced plans to defund the police, slashing hundreds of millions from budgets. It wasn’t the smartest plan: Los Angeles was experiencing a terrifying rise in homicides.

California’s committed progressivism has been evident in its embrace of illegal immigrants, offering drivers licences and free health care. If this boosted the economy and made life better for everyone, then great. But such measures do not go down well with those they are supposed to celebrate. 

Blacks and Hispanics – according to U.S. Census Data – fare worse in California than almost anywhere else in the U.S., with a third of Latinos living in poverty compared to the 21% average elsewhere. Since 1990, the black population of Los Angeles county has dropped by nearly 200,000. More than half now express interest in leaving the state. Woke hasn’t worked.

Nowhere is this clearer than the state’s schools, which are failing kids from all backgrounds. San Francisco, the world’s epicentre of warped social justice ideology, has the worst scores for black students of any county in the state, and yet its educators continue to shovel woke rubbish at them instead of the basics. Half of California high school students can barely read, and yet they are expected to take ethnic-studies courses. No wonder Clegg, a father of three, felt uneasy.

Then there is sex. Despite the long-running horror of many parents at the state’s ‘inclusive’ sex education curricula, which has included teaching their kids about ‘blood play’, the Los Angeles Unified School District has now formally adopted a ‘trans-affirming’ curriculum to ensure classes are ‘queer all school year’. Teachers are to instruct on the ‘breakdown of the gender binary’ and encourage students to experiment with gender pronouns such as ‘they’, ‘ze’, and ‘tree’. Schools have collaborated with therapists and students to keep parents in the dark about their children’s use of cross-sex hormones and name-changes.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: AmericaBLMCaliforniaGo woke go brokeNick CleggWokery

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

According to the Guardian liars, Austria – “no violations”.

‘Nuff said.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

“According to the Guardian” – ie ‘untrue’ – cue for instant turn off!

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Proveritate
Proveritate
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Guardian readers will actually believe these lies. The Guardian has long made its readers believe that black is white.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

According to the Guardian liars, Austria – “no violations”. ‘Nuff said.

It is not ‘‘Nuff said’ at all. This follows on from a recent series of absolutely shoddy ill researched anti-sceptical articles from Noah Carl and Will Jones promoting (doubtless on Toby’s instructions) the MSM foreign policy agenda on all fronts. Not openly, perish the thought, but by the back door, Marcus Antonius ‘to bury not to praise’ style.
The vast majority of sceptics on here would not go to the Graun (or the BBC or the Indie) to sample their globalist brand of propaganda, de-facto apartheid and casual hatred against those they deem (in the words of the US Democrats) ‘deplorables’.
So instead, under the excuse of showing just how insidious the Graun is of course, DS promotes the article complete with map. Job done, and better than the 77th brigade could ever achieve, ATL is going to make sure sceptics are continuously bombarded with MSM propaganda. Look boys and girls, isn’t this article really BAD?
The Graun is no longer a news outlet, it is a Gates funded NWO mouthpiece that has long since stopped open comments as it slowly plunged into the gutter over the years. What the hell is DS giving the Graun free advertising for, except perhaps that both (ultimately) serve the same master?

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

I do hope your therapy sessions continue to go well.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
3 years ago
Reply to  JXB

And here’s me worried that original comments were a thing of the past on DS. Thanks for restoring my faith.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

At least you were right about the Guardian.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

At least you recognised that much.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

Do you actually understand what you are jabbering on about?
“promoting (doubtless on Toby’s instructions) the MSM foreign policy agenda on all fronts”. Please show us one, just one, example.
Then you say “under the excuse of showing just how insidious the Graun is of course, DS promotes the article complete with map.”
What kind of stupid are you? The map is the one The Guardian printed and, obvious to a dead chimp, it is necessary in order to show how ridiculous The Guardians claims are.
I suggest you are in the wrong place. We don’t do idiots here.

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
3 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

it is necessary in order to show how ridiculous The Guardians claims are.

If the DS still believes (in 2022) that it is necessary to show how ridiculous the Graun’s claims are on ANY subject then it has a serious problem with journalistic credibility. If only Toby & co had invested the same energy into calling the government out on vaxx for kids 2021 – but that was just too difficult, eh? Sorry if my point went over your head, btw, try again next year maybe?

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  B.F.Finlayson

This is baffling – do I understand you correctly? You’re suggesting that T Young et al are in league with the MSM? And your evidence for this is that they’ve reproduced a Guardian article which might influence DS readers in the Guardian’s favour? If I’m reading you right, this is a truly bizarre interpretation. As a long-time DS reader and a long-time Guardian avoider, I wouldn’t have seen this article if it hadn’t been reproduced here, in all its weird twisted nuttiness. You’re actually suggesting that the DS is no more than a mouthpiece for the ‘other side’? I don’t suppose you’ve been described as ‘disgruntled’ recently, have you?

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Robert Liddell
Robert Liddell
3 years ago
Reply to  Corky Ringspot

I agree entirely. Seeing the article was important to me. I don’t read the Guardian (of course), but I need to understand the way it and it’s readers think in order to help me understand their nuttiness

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

explaining reality to a guardian columnist feels like that sketch from father ted whereby father ted and dougal were in a caravan and ted says to dougal “these are small, but the ones out there are far away”

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The gaslighting is so thick you could cut it with a knife.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago

https://www.v-dem.net/research_projects.html

Suspiciously slick and well funded website, supporting the suspicions raised by their openly and obviously dishonest conclusions.

“In case you’re wondering what Belgium did to earn its status as the “the only western country where people’s freedoms were moderately violated”, we’re told that it “recorded ethnic profiling during the pandemic … with abusive police practices disproportionately affecting minority ethnic communities”.”

More confirmation, from their absurd pandering to woke dogma.

Contemptible stuff!

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

The Pandemic Violations of Democratic Standards Index (PanDem) captures the extent to which state responses to Covid-19 violate democratic standards for emergency responses.
According to these self-appointed clowns, emergency response conform to democratic standards if they aren’t

  • discrimnatory, don’t specifically so-called protected groups, targetting other groups is fine
  • don’t derogate from non-derogable rights, basically anything short of killing people is considered derogable
  • are not abusively enforced, whatever that’s supposed to mean (New Zeland is recorded as having no violations in any category, hence, abusively would be NZ+
  • without time limit, Sweden’s non-measures not being time-limited earning it a bad score here
  • limiting legislature, barring unvaccinated MPs from parliament is not considered to be that
  • including official disinformation campaigns, hard-hitting personal messaging to increase general fear levels not being regarded as something like this
  • restrict media freedom, presumably, this applies to MSM only

Why this interesting list is referred to as democratic standards is anybody’s guess as there’s only one point applicable to democracy in it. This is consistent with the mission statement of the institute behind this which names electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian as high-level democratic principles.

The short version of that is Only wokeism is truly democratic, even despite it’s actually corporate and not democratic.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Pretty good summary.

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

The Guardian, have the begging bowl statement everyday, this is why

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Please let the Guardian close down -don’t let Gates rescue it!

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Gates will keep it open if he is planning another “pandemic”, so it is probably safe for the next year or two.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago

Romania still has segregated access for non-vaccinated people. Mask wearing is still mandatory. And going beyond covid restrictions, it is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, with incredibly restrictive barriers set in people’s path. Unless you know someone in a higher position, you will never become anything more than a slave to the wage.

But of course they say Romania has been a great democracy. The government is doing anything and everything the EU dictates.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

I’m assuming refugees there get a free pass when it comes to the jab!

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

I honestly don’t know.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

Compared to how it was under Ceausescu, it is like paradise, I assure you.

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Cristi.Neagu
Cristi.Neagu
3 years ago
Reply to  7941MHKB

I am not so sure about that. And that is not to say that it was great under Ceausescu. For better or worse, people back then all had a roof over their heads. Yeah, they forced people to take in tenants, but at least there were no homeless people. People had a job, even though it might be a useless job. At least they weren’t out stealing and beating up people. And yes, there were the dreaded food queues. But at least here were food queues. Now people just starve to death. Romania was producing things. It had a pretty strong agricultural industry. It produced steel and aluminium. It had one of the most advanced nuclear power stations in Europe. It had loads of hydroelectric stations, including a massive one on the Danube. And they all worked.

But what is more important, back then society was much more cohesive. People would stand up to anti-social behaviour. Police would do their job to keep the streets safe. You didn’t have to be constantly on edge for fear of being mugged at night. Kids would receive a very good education, as opposed to kids these days who learn nothing in school.

As bad as communism was and still is, it still was better than what’s going on today. And that is saying a lot. Globalism is a much greater evil than communism. Give it a few decades and the genocides will start happening. A warning to all who seek to end communism: Be careful what you replace it with.

And I know that despite me repeatedly saying that communism has always been bad, no matter which coat it wears, I know there will be people who will try to pretend like I’m saying the exact opposite. To whoever does this: get stuffed.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  Cristi.Neagu

You sound like you know a thing or two about the real Romania. Respect to you. I sense real experience in your words – and you’re quite right – know matter how you express yourself, you’ll be referred to as a communist sympathiser over and over again. Just keep on telling them to Get Stuffed!

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TheGreenGoblin
TheGreenGoblin
3 years ago

More smug superiority and actually racist thought processes from “liberals”.

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rtj1211
rtj1211
3 years ago

Look, just because the Guardian employees the mentally subnormal and psychologically affected doesn’t mean you have to publicise their cretinous rubbish, does it?

The following democratic freedoms were violated everywhere:

  1. Economic discrimination against the unvaccinated.
  2. The right of children to go to school.
  3. The right to have MPs actually do their jobs, go to work and not draw salaries of £80k for doing nothing but taking orders from Gates and the WEF. In other words, the right to be REPRESENTED.
  4. The right to commune with nature when perfectly healthy, in places where human contact will be extremely limited.
  5. The right to take exercise every day at a time of ones choosing to maintain a healthy constitution.
  6. The right not to wear masks in public places when masks did nothing positive and exacerbated the concentration of disease within the mask.

Basically, the Coronavirus Act was a violation of democratic rights. It allowed Government by fiat without a referendum of the people to give it legitimacy.

The Guardian should now be put in the children’s fiction section of every public library.

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JASA
JASA
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

I agree, but most of it was done under the Public Health Act 1984, which unless it is amended will remain and things can happen again and again.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

The Guardian should now be put in the children’s fiction section of every public library.

Where Uncle Bill can read them a fairy story.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

Whilst broadly agreeing, the last place I’d put the Grauniad is anywhere some child might pick it up and read it.

Roll it up, shove up the ars@s of its journalists and owners, set fire to it.

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

Nearly the same argument as BF Finlayson, above. I see your point, but, as I said to him (Finlayson), some of us are fascinated by Guardian weirdness, which we wouldn’t be able to enjoy if it weren’t reproduced in places like this. And I assure you there’s no danger of my being influenced in the Guardian’s favour! Good grief! Again, reproducing leftist lies here is perfectly reasonable.

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JamesM
JamesM
3 years ago

Yet another bunch of people trying to rewrite history rather than admit they were wrong.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  JamesM

Story of the Deranged Extreme Left for over a century

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

It can’t be long before they start blaming it all on Thatcher.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago
Reply to  JamesM

They can’t admit they were wrong. If they acknowledge all the misery and unnecessary deaths these policies really created – and they have any kind of conscience – they would have a mental breakdown.

In short, they literally “can’t handle the truth.”

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

…they would have a mental breakdown.

And hopefully spend the rest of their lives in prison.

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Fraser Nelsons Underpants
Fraser Nelsons Underpants
3 years ago

This must be one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. No violations at all in Austria, where bodily autonomy was violated by the state under the threat of financial ruin and imprisonment? Are these people insane? Or just liars?

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Fraser Nelsons Underpants

Liars employing the insane, would be my guess.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Fraser Nelsons Underpants

Just Liars.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Likely criminally insane.

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MikeHaseler
MikeHaseler
3 years ago

It’s the Guardian!

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  MikeHaseler

Quis custodiet?!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

I see our new government at the WHO are becoming quite adept at rewriting the English dictionary. Fortunately, the Groan is on hand to explain all.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

And rewriting the definition of a ‘pandemic’….They needed to get that in order to have the excuse to carry out what they did.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

I took it for granted that people on here would make that connection.

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The Rule of Pricks
The Rule of Pricks
3 years ago

Democratic Values and Human Rights are what the state graciously give you according to the Left

Democratic Values and Human Rights are what every individual has and will will fight to prevent the state taking them away

Its a simple case of the Left redefining what they mean to fit their beliefs. Theyre wrong of course – you cant redefine them – but thats what they do. If you cant give an honest answer to a question, then change the question until you can give the answer you want to!

Absurd and derisory but we me must be used to it by now arent we.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  The Rule of Pricks

Sad that the Guardian is now no better than the inversion of the ‘Völkischer Beobachter ‘- what a fall from integrity!

I wonder what C. P, Scott would think?

The current rag does not deserve its title.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Its so far from its working class roots in Manchester.

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Mr Taxpayer
Mr Taxpayer
3 years ago

A friend of mine has a t-shirt that reads thus:

The Guardian
Wrong about everything.

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
3 years ago

German court rules that security services can spy on a legitimate political party represented in the Bundestag. https://www.rt.com/news/551543-alternative-for-germany-court-spy/

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

All part of the general descent into totalitarianism in the US sphere, as the ruling elites struggle to contain populist dissent.

Mainstream media journo caught admitting to lies about the January 6th “insurrection” that the Trump-deranged Dems and their media shills have been going on about endlessly (and numerous political detainees have been confined over).

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-reporter-says-ton-fbi-informants-were-j6-calls-traumatized-fellow-journos-biches

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

What populist dissent? There doesn’t seem to be much of a’ struggle.’- more of a ‘cave-in’.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

In Germany, mostly the “far rjght”. In the US, Trump Republicans. Here, the politically unrepresented dissenters from the elite woke bipartisan consensus.

In general you can tell who the genuine populists are by the way they are targeted for demonisation and suppression by the regime and by the political elite.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

In Germany, you’re either green or a post-communist or far right to varying degrees. The term has absolutely no meaning beyond political position the self-appointed progressive establishment really dislikes. It’s equally applied to actual Neonazis, people who want any controls on immigration, environmental activists opposed to wind turbines and people who don’t think Corona vaccines are mandkind’s greatest invention so far and thus, everybody must have as many of them as possible.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

“green or a post-communist or far right to varying degrees. The term has absolutely no meaning beyond political position to self-appointed progressive establishment really dislikes.”

Yes, that’s pretty much what I was getting at. “Far right” are the populists basically, some of who are actually meaningfully “far right” in the old sense, and many who are not but are nevertheless outside the window of acceptability. Greens and post-communists are not deplorable in the same sense, as far as I can tell.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  Mark

Practical example: Someone who believes that asylum seekers should not be accepted automatically and that rejection of a claim should ultimatively lead to deportation would be considered unspeakably far-right, IOW, clearly a Nazi or at least indistinguishably close to one, by most, if not all[*], of the members of at least two of the parties in the current ruling coalition (SPD and Greens).

[*] whoever might think in this way would be well-advised to keep these opinions to himself to avoid endangering his political career.

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Mark
Mark
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

“Someone who believes that asylum seekers should not be accepted automatically and that rejection of a claim should ultimatively lead to deportation would be considered unspeakably far-right, IOW, clearly a Nazi or at least indistinguishably close to one…“

That would be me, but I’m certainly not a Nazi. I use that term quite specifically, usually (which is why I’m quite careful about using it in relation to Ukrainian nationalists generally).

“.…by most, if not all[*], of the members of at least two of the parties in the current ruling coalition (SPD and Greens).”

Indeed. But such people are generally dishonest, delusional and/or corrupt anyway.

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conocido en valenciana
conocido en valenciana
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Hitler is …………… (please see attachment).

Hitler .jpg
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annicx
annicx
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

I’ve had so many argument with young people over the last few years when they call everyone to the right of Corbyn a ‘Nazi’. I’m often called one when I say I’m a Libertarian. Just trying to point out that they were socialists seems to cause something to fuse in their brains- they simply will not accept it or even think about it. That’s history completely re-written.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  annicx

That’s the usual confusion with German words and 19th century history. Originally, the socialists where people who formed social clubs for workers. That’s why they called them themselves socialists (Sozialisten). The idea behind that was to improve the circumstances of their lives through self-improvement, ie, self-educiation and collective action. Ultimatively, these fused into a political party called SPD (social-democratic party). At some point in time, the SPD pro forma approved Marxism, an independent, theoretical development of German emigrants living in England, as their official ideology despite – as historical events would show – they never really meant that, ie, they had a lot of revolutionary rethoric but didn’t want a revolution or at least not the kind of revolution which was to take place in Russia.

Hitler encountered the formerly socialist marxists during a time when he was a construction worker in Vienna which ultimatively ended with him being driven out of this trade due to his unwillingness to conform to this party line (which he considered part of the Jewish conspiracy to destroy [European] civilization). While being opposed to this ideology, he nevertheless realized that the circumstances of factory workers were bad and desparately needed improvement if those worker were to be rescued from their false leaders and won back for the national cause. He also realized that winning over the masses was a necessary precondition for any kind of movement to succeed. That’s the reason why the DAP (Deutsche Arbeitpartei, an amateur club of working class people from Munich who rejected internationalist Marxism) was ultimatively renamed NSDAP (national socialist german worker’s party), harking back to the original meaning of the term socialist.

I’ve now been writing this a couple of times but I’m entirely convinced that this attempt to rewrite history based on homonyms with whose actual history a modern (American) audience isn’t familiar with will not come to an end because of this. Looking forward to seeing the estates/ multinational corporation confusion attempt again. Not.

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago
Reply to  Londo Mollari

It is the German courts that are no longer ‘Legitimate’ -what happened to the of rights guaranteed by the Grund Gesetz they are supposed to defend?.

Red Green Fascism is now the liedmotiv of this “Neues Deutschland” So how could there be any “Alternative” allowed – never mind one for “Deutschland”

In fact, isn’t the name “Deutschland” itself nationalistic, racist and sexist … full of Nazi connotations ..how about renaming it ‘Menschland’ …or could that also be full of ‘racist’ undertones ( über or unter?)?

“Mitteleuropa” has old connotations of expansionism – so perhaps settle for “Mitteleuropäischeunion” and abolish “Germany” altogether?

Would that please the Red-Green Loons and the Courts?

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

There’s actually a movement in the German Green Party which seeks to strip the word Germany/ Deutschland out of anything the party publishes.

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Liberty4UK
Liberty4UK
3 years ago

I have a flying pig to sell them.

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chris-ds
chris-ds
3 years ago

Just don’t ever read the guardian.

it would be amusing to replay some of the comments back to the commenters and see if they still believe the bile they come out with?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago

“Austria – which had two protracted lockdowns with months of stay-at-home orders, and even considered mandatory vaccination.”

They also have a lockdown for the unvaccinated, the Youtube UnHeard interviewed those who hadn’t had the jab along with attitudes from the public. The response was chilling considering their living history.

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FrankFisher
FrankFisher
3 years ago

Because for socialists if everyone is EQUALLY enslaved, it’s not slavery.

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago

As plain as plain could be.
This is “disinformation” to use their vernacular.
To anyone who has half a brain, it’s shit – and they know it is.
They should be in jail e.g. for encouraging/mandating the taking of a poison/noxious substance, S. 23 and 24 Offences against the person Act 1861.

To think that over 18 months ago I was banned from their comments section for spreading disinformation about the covid scam/lies.
Apparently too many people objected – to me suggesting they used what was left of their brains and think critically about covid “The Science”.

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unmaskthetruth
unmaskthetruth
3 years ago

This whitewashing of the tyranny of the last 2 years is dreadful. I just can’t believe it’s happening. What about the rubber bullets that the police used to shoot at protestors in Holland? Forced vaccinations of careworkers? Elderly people in care homes dying alone? WTF Guardian?

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

Radiation used in Australia, including injuring kids.

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago

The Grauniad – ‘nuff said.

Earth calling. Earth calling.

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago

Personally, when I see a lying, Guardian-type ostrich with its stupid head (likely covered with some face rag) stuck in the sand, I itch to shoot it in the backside.

Every country in Western Europe, except perhaps for Sweden, hasn’t hesitated to exercise assorted forms of repression, oppression, coercion and terrorism. The Guardian is just cretinism personified.

Last edited 3 years ago by Hopeless - "TN,BN"
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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

Without 100 percent (okay, maybe 99.9 percent) of the corporate press helping create and then perpetuate the “sky is falling” narrative, none of what’s happened – and is still happening – could have happened. Of all the “captured” professions and institutions, the capture of the “watchdog” press corp is the most ominous for the future of civilization.

Who is ever going to expose great scandals or “crimes against humanity?” We know the government isn’t going to expose or convict itself …. which leaves us with a few contrarian sites (like this one) and a network of Sustack independent journalists … who have been easily pushed into a tiny corner with no real “reach.”

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Hopeless - "TN,BN"
Hopeless - "TN,BN"
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Where are the “fact checkers” when they’re needed?

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago
Reply to  Hopeless - "TN,BN"

Who “fact checks” the (authorized) “fact checkers?”

Answer: Actually a lot of people and organizations. It’s just that hardly anyone sees these fact checks.

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John001
John001
3 years ago

Please define ‘left-wing’. I’ve hardly changed my views in 45 years but those a generation or more younger do seem to yearn for an authoritarianism which I find repugnant.

There was a time when probably more libertarians were ‘left-wing’ than ‘right-wing’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-libertarianism

Thatcher was regarded as an authoritarian figure. On everything except the economy, she was.

In short, unless words are clearly defined, mostly no-one understands what the hell anyone else is talking about. This makes such debate a waste of time and effort.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

It’s typical of the Left today. They say nothing about abuse of power unless it suits them. Tony Benn would never have stood for what has happened in the last two years. I never agreed with his politics, Socialism is a pile of nasty smelly stuff, but he stood for what is right. Lying is not right and that is largely what “Media” do today.

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annicx
annicx
3 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

I think a lot of politicians from Benn’s time were genuine- even if I disagreed with most of them. They had character and a stature that no-one today seems to possess.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago

Alas, the “violation of democratic values” has only just begun.

I recently watched a compelling video by Dr. Michael Yeaden, former chief scientist with Pfizer, who outlines what the Powers that Be are trying to achieve with this pandemic “crisis.”

One thing that struck me is Yeaden’s acknowledgment that his thoughts and warnings won’t make any difference. Due to censorship and the massive groupthink that “protects the authorized narrative,” he knows his view is not going to resonate with enough people to expose these crimes and frauds.

This leaves those who strongly sense what is happening with the greatest feeling of impotence and powerlessness. What’s worse than knowing a massive crime is being committed and knowing that nobody (who matters) cares or is going to do anything to prosecute or expose the guilty?

Here’s my summary of a few points Dr. Yeaden made in one of his video presentations. (He thinks the ultimate agenda is the digital currency and “social credit” surveillance systems).

 – The Purpose is complete totalitarian control. This will give the State complete control over everything you do. This will be “the end of human freedoms.”

– The M.O. of the PTB: Frighten everyone to death and then censor and intimidate people who are challenging the accepted narrative.

 – “Nobody has heard of me ….” There will be some noisy individuals – but the Powers that Be control the “shares” or reach of these people so they don’t have to worry about them.

– I’m ineffective – they know I can’t reach anybody.

– They have complete control of the media. I doubt I will convert many people – the people I need to reach I can’t reach – they control.

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BillRiceJr
BillRiceJr
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Independent journalist Corey Lynn has an excellent website (where I found Dr. Yeaden’s video). 

At the bottom of this link, she lists 22 ways to “stop Vaccine ID passports.” 

Of all things, she starts off talking about rabies vaccines, but, after reading this dispatch, I see that this topic is perhaps germane to what’s happening in the world today.

https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/22-ways-to-stop-vaccine-id-passports-in-2022-and-why-we-must/

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
3 years ago
Reply to  BillRiceJr

Yup we shouldn’t worry about “evil Putin” too much, with our own government the way it is.

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annicx
annicx
3 years ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Nice distraction though. Amazing when you consider what the great PM in Canada has been up to.

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Richard Austin
Richard Austin
3 years ago

All you really need to know about this is who funds The Guardian. Now, tell me again why we are starting a war with none other than Russia over Eastern Europe and the Left are saying next to nothing?

https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2020/09/inv017377

Last edited 3 years ago by Richard Austin
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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
3 years ago

This tells us what the Guyardian thinks of as democratic. Doing what bureaucrats (“scientists”) say and the Guardian approves – that is democracy for them. Freedom – forget it.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago

guardian thinks fantasy and reality are the same thing.

some citizens – “but we saw the violations with our own eyes”
guardian – “no you didn’t, you have covid brain”

Last edited 3 years ago by civilliberties
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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

Guardian Claims Belgium Is the Only Country in Western Europe Where Democratic Values Were Violated During the Pandemic

…whilst DS supports the mainstream BS that there was a pandemic over the last two years.

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JudyRobinson
JudyRobinson
3 years ago

Various doctors say families of loved ones hospitalized with covid19 are resorting to desperate measures when approved treatments(slow death protocols) have failed. When it’s not too late, some have seen tremendous success by sneaking Ivermectin medication prohibited by hospitals to patients. It is really sad situation what has our country become. You can get your ivm by visiting https://ivmpharmacy.com

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

France is a prison state. It stops its residents leaving. The Guardian is a worthless rag.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
3 years ago

Interestingly, Belarus, who had even fewer restrictions than Sweden and basically ignored the pandemic for the most part, is listed as “major violations”. That’s rich. While they probably did indeed have major violations, since they have been an authoritarian regime ever since they became independent in 1994 (and before that in the Soviet Union), it is unlikely than any of these violations had anything to do with the pandemic, and more like “business as usual” for Belarus.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
3 years ago

Reminds me of how starting in February 2021, the Oxford Stringency Index was arbitrarily, retroactively, and surreptitiously gamed just for no-lockdown Sweden to look far more stringent than they actually were, and seemingly about as strict as the UK or stricter (that’s rich!). Why? Most likely to make the UK look not so bad despite it’s far worse performance in terms of both death rates and economic damage relative to Sweden.

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Draper233
Draper233
3 years ago

This is satire, right?

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

The guardian is MSM. Why would anyone quote any nonsense that comes from MSM? Haven’t the last two years of misinformation been enough for you. Please stop reading or listening to MSM until they begin to report with integrity and honesty. That has not happened yet. There are so many social platforms to choose from with some outstanding data, information, honesty and integrity.

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annicx
annicx
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

Very true. It is MSM, and no longer anything to do with ‘news’. It is simply a narrative. Yet, I am constantly derided for not listening to, watching or reading the ‘news’.

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