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The late, great conservative humorist P.J. O’Rourke said of socialism, “To grasp the true meaning of socialism, imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office, even the sleaze.”

P.J. hated socialism because no one was in charge of anything. The ‘government’ rarely ‘governed’ anything except that which could be manipulated into benefitting the governing elite. The rest was farmed out to the ‘non-profit/industrial complex,’ which doesn’t care about maintaining what it’s managing because there’s no incentive to do so.

Think about Zohran Mamnani’s ‘government-run grocery stores.’ Chicago ‘studied’ the matter, paying a non-profit group that paid a for-profit consultant company, which determined it wouldn’t work.

The only ‘city-run’ grocery store in the country is in Kansas City. The problem is that it’s not run by the city. It’s run by a for-profit subsidiary that needs gobs of cash from the city to stay open.

Writing in Persuasion, Jacob Savage relates a trip he took to Salt Lake City, where he took his kids to Wheeler Farm in Murray, Utah. The 75-acre farm was originally homesteaded in the late 1800s and turned over to Salt Lake County in the 1970s.

It was jarring, in the best way, to see a public space so well-run. Admission is free. Kids walk right up to cows, goats, sheep, and chickens. They climb on old tractors, go on wagon rides, race through open fields.

After a busy morning, we bought $2 Uncrustables and $1.50 popsicles from the gift shop and sat for lunch. At one point, my 3-year-old wandered over to a chicken coop that had been converted into a playhouse. He was inside when a mom rushed over—her son was bleeding. He’d been nicked by a loose plank that had come down in the coop.

The mostly college-aged staff ushered the kids out and surveyed the damage. Coming from Los Angeles, I expected some level of generalized freaking out: yellow tape, an incident report, something. Instead, what happened was even stranger: one of the employees wandered out to find a nail gun and returned to fix the problem plank on the spot.

A week later, Savage took his kids to the city-owned Los Angeles Zoo. The contrast was beyond shocking.

Admission for the family of four was $98. ‘Exhibits that are supposed to be open are inexplicably closed. Every fifty feet there’s another kiosk that’s boarded up, another sign for something that’s been ‘coming soon’ for years,’ writes Savage.
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https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/07/29/the-primary-reason-people-in-blue-states-cant-have-nice-things-n4942206

@ .40 cal Booger, Thanks for the list. How true it is!

We’ve had this data for decades. You have to assume that they don’t want crime to go down (until it gets really bad, then you have the cycle Shire-man outlines).

Left wing Democrats: ‘Joe Biden is as sharp as ever, he is the most popular president ever and is not mentally impaired’ – as Democrats and Pelosi and Jill and Hunter and a host of radical left wing staffers quietly ‘elected’ ‘President Autopen’ as Joe stumbled around lost in his closet or elsewhere mumbling ‘Ice Cream… wheres Ashley I wanna take a shower,’.

Left wing Liberals: “A black person being arrested for their crime is injustice of laws and systemic racism’ – as they carry out literally thousands of violent crimes in their ‘mostly peaceful protests.

Left Wing liberals: “MAGA needs to be rounded up and put in concentration camps cause they say stuff about us committing our heinous monster acts on children as young as 3 years old for pseudo science experiments to convert them to another gender cause we say so.”

Left Wing liberals: “Defund police and don’t enforce laws . We don’t need them. What? NO, you are wrong that criminals are criminals – they are justice-impacted-individuals”

Left wing Liberals: “They are not pedophiles. Its discriminatory to call them that, they are ‘Minor Attracted Persons’ and its all ok cause LGBTQ+++++++++.”

Left Wing Liberals: “Those ‘undocumented immigrant’ rapists and murderers and human traffickers and terrorist-gang members and pedophiles are not illegal alien criminals. They are ‘undocumented citizens’ feeding America.’

Left Wing Liberals: “You Lie! There are for a fact 137 sex genders. It says so right here in this study we created.”

Left wing: “I’m gonna vote for Joe Biden if he runs, and if not I’ll vote for Kamala. What do you mean they are Marxist Socialists? Can’t be true cause they say ‘our democracy’ a lot. Whats a ‘republic’? And ‘unburdened by what has been’ does have a meaning and its ….well…we will get back to you on what it means.”

(list continues….)

Is it just me, or does it seem like there is problem trend here involving Left Wing?

It’s a vicious cycle of leftist stupidity that won’t end until they’ve destroyed western civilization.