A recent post included the old Turkish Proverb, “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king.  The palace becomes a circus.“  In that post it was being used to make a point about President Biden, but I think the true wisdom of that proverb is best seen from a more generalized point of view.

A palace is the seat of power.  Like our Oval Office.  But the palace doesn’t matter.  The office doesn’t matter.  What matters is the people.  Ronald Reagan viewed the Oval Office with such reverence that he refused to remove his suit jacket in such a hallowed place.  Bill Clinton got blow jobs from young interns in that same office.  Which one was right?  Neither.  They were both wrong.  The place doesn’t matter.  There’s no difference between the Oval Office and any other office.  But there’s a big difference between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.  And that is a difference that matters.

This next quote is not a Turkish Proverb, but it does come from Turkish President Erdogan:  “Democracy is like a train ride.  When you reach your stop, you get off.”  His point is that democracy is a convenient way to change the people in charge.  But once you get the right people in charge, you stop.  You no longer need democracy.  You’re where you want to be, so you get off the train.  You might think that this is sort of missing the point of democracy, but Putin, Castro, Hitler, and many other tyrants would tend to agree with Mr. Erdogan.

It turns out that democracy doesn’t matter any more than palaces or fancy offices do.  It’s the people that matter.

American leftists understand this, and have spent the past several decades working tirelessly to convert the American citizenry from freedom-loving independent thinkers to fearful sheep willing to trade freedom for security.

They have done this in many and varied ways, including converting government schools into indoctrination centers for the left, and even up to importing a massive new voting block for Democrats via open borders.

But their most dangerous technique may be the left’s intentional destruction of the middle class.  These are people who are neither poor nor rich, and are capable of taking care of themselves.  Which means they are also capable of thinking for themselves.  Which means they are dangerous to leftists who view elections and independent thinkers as threats.  Leftists need sheep, and they fear everyone else.  Rightly so, obviously.

The destruction of the middle-class results in a society of only the rich and the poor.  Such societies are inherently unstable, and the politics of such societies becomes a simple power struggle, managed by those who redistribute wealth.

Those who want to keep what they earn through their own labor – those people are less dangerous than those who want to take what others have earned.

Venezuela.

A dominant middle class tends to enhance domestic peace and prosperity.  The lack of a middle class tends to lead to … well, to Venezuela.  Or North Korea or Cuba or some other socialist paradise.

As California’s middle class has either been destroyed or simply left the state, California is starting to look like those countries that destroyed their middle classes.  Imagine what California would look like right now without the financial, infrastructure, and military support of the United States federal government.  It would look a lot like Mexico, and possibly even worse.

And the Democrats are intentionally destroying our middle class in the other 49 states, simply so they can get to their stop, and get off the democracy train.  Then everything will be under control.

No, it won’t.  American leftists are making the same mistake that leftists have made around the world for generations.  Their efforts to gain government power by taking power from the citizens inevitably leads to instability.  They are destroying that which stabilizes society, and are building something that they cannot possibly control.

Again.

And again and again and again.

America was a very nice place for a very long time.  Not because there was anything unusual about America.  It’s because there was something unusual about Americans.  Specifically, the American middle class.

Los Angeles.

The left understands that you don’t destroy America by burning the forests or salting the fields.  You destroy America by destroying the American middle class.  So that’s what they’re doing.  California is leading the way, giving us a preview of what is to come, which may be of interest to those who are unfamiliar with the history of leftism.  For example, those who were indoctrinated in American government schools.  Watching California implode might be disconcerting for the sheep among us.

For the rest of us, it’s like watching a train crash in slow motion.

Leftists are destroying that which stabilizes society, and are building something they can’t possibly control.

Again.