I
recently read a review of a new book on government housing policy, Richard Rothstein’s
“The Color of Law”. The reviewer’s
summary relates: “…how public housing at times replaced… racially integrated…
neighborhoods spawned in the private market. In other words, private housing
markets were creating integration before government planners got in the way.
Poor black neighborhoods characterized by significant degrees of property
ownership were cleared for public housing, in which private ownership was by
definition absent.” This book also documents the segregationist policies of the
New Deal which continued the racist policies of FDR’s Democrat predecessor
Woodrow Wilson. It does seem a bit strange that historians call regression
“progressive”.
Every
time I pass Rancho Seco, I feel sad. Not because of any love for nuclear energy,
but for the wasted resources from which we all suffer. Environmental activists
forced the plant’s abandonment, but why was it built in the first place? Isn’t this area rich in untapped clean and
safe hydropower? Hasn’t the same environmental agenda prevented the prior
development of our hydropower? What is the consequence of these seemingly choate
policies? Is it odd that I prefer to read about the Dark Ages rather than
having to relive them?
Recently, at our local Staples, I was offered a free plastic bag. So it seems OK that the
more affluent, more likely-to-be making-discretionary-purchases don’t have to
pay the ocean pollution tariff that the less fortunate struggling to buy a
week’s food pay. As every day goes by I
achieve further understanding of what Liberals call logic. Part of what makes
all of this possible is the dumbing down of America. While the most apparent of
this gruesome trend is Common Core, it’s manifesting itself throughout our
culture. A nearby example is the dumbing
down of the Nevada State Museum from a world class Native American exhibit to
an educational Disneyland for grade schoolers.
But
the dumbing down agenda strikes me daily whenever I write anything. Constantly
I type a word that Microsoft Word tells me isn’t a word or is a misspelling of
a word. After looking it up in a dictionary I discover that I was right about
the word and its spelling. Why is Microsoft trying to limit our ability to
express ourselves? Certainly Bill Gates’ continuing support of the globalist
agenda can’t be unrelated.
Copyright
2017, Mark L. Bennett
