A “Third World Country”
While in LA this week, Gavin Newsom marveled that “we look like a third-world country.” The definition of a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
The poverty, homelessness, crime, and filth in Newsom’s California certainly evoke the third world. But perhaps the better comparison is to the medieval world: where personal liberty has no place and truth itself is an instrument of government authority.
Last week, for instance, the CDC acknowledged that prior infection offers better protection than vaccination. I called on Newsom to immediately credit natural immunity in all COVID policies. That’s what reason demands. So of course he refused.
Likewise, Newsom still refuses to revoke his student vaccine mandate, which every other state has rejected. Even worse, new legislation seeks to cut parents out entirely. Senate Bill 866 would let 12-year-olds get the COVID vaccine without parental consent.
California also remains one of the few states with a school mask mandate, despite mounting evidence of severe harms and scant evidence of any benefit. LA schools even just announced that “students will be required to wear a non-cloth mask with a nose wire at all times.”
And the ultimate form of government control – Single Payer Healthcare – has just passed the Appropriations Committee. The committee was unbothered by the need to double state taxes. AB 1400 is now on to a vote by the full Assembly.
But there is good news. The Supreme Court has struck down Biden’s employer vaccine mandate, and in California, the leader of the Legislature’s “Vaccine Work Group” has conceded they don’t have enough votes for any new mandates to take effect this year.
Our battles in 2022 go beyond standard politics. We’re fighting for constitutional and limited government, economic and personal freedom, the inalienable rights of mankind. These are the principles that made America the greatest country in the world. They’re worth fighting for.
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