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Dispatch from the War Zone of Seattle
This Fox News Web Site story today is just priceless. The Mayor,a white, homosexual, female Jenny Durkan, has been “demanded” to resign by avowed Socialist City Council-creature Kshama Sawant. Yeah, as if Durkan takes orders from the Clowncil! Sawant let demonstrators into City Hall because in her view it “belongs to the people”.
“Protesters” Storm City Hall! Those same protesters took over the Seattle East Precinct, making a 6-block “police-free zone”.
In the White House press corps. Mask wearing has been a political statement by the media jackals. They have spent weeks hounding the President and his very attractive spokeswoman about covering their faces with masks, knowing this would look bad and obscure their words and expression. After the riots, something has changed.
January seems like decades ago. Those were great times. The markets were up. Employment figures were strong across all demographics. Indicators of poverty were themselves becoming impoverished. We’d revisited trade deals with Mexico, Canada, the European Union, China, etc. and reversed the outgoing tide that had caused an unending exodus of US jobs and wealth. In the meantime, walls were being built to secure our borders and stop the flow of illegal immigrants invading from the South. We had been freed of any reliance on foreign oil and in fact, the US was exporting both oil and natural gas. We’d become the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world.
For the past half-century, a class of people used to making the rules of society and culture – and more importantly, seeing them obeyed – are tightening their grip on a politically chaotic time. The old guard media soothsayers, keyholders to political office, and ivory tower academia were thoroughly embarrassed by the 2016 election. But it didn’t just strike a blow to the elitists. It provided an opening for a new kind of illiberal warrior brought up in the very institutions the well-heeled and cocktail-circuit coastal class created. We’re seeing it played out in the pages of television and print news, media, sports, politics, and culture. The only thing most Americans might agree on is that we’ve collectively lost our minds.
I’m in my dotage now, so old and out of touch that young people look right through me, an invisible man. But there was a time when I was opaque. That was in the 1950s and I was a teenager in Compton, CA, about the same time that teenagers were being invented.
On June 4, The Lancet, a venerable British medical publication, formally 
