The rioting in Los Angeles may dominate the headlines this week, but progressives in America—and their corporate allies—have two cards to play. Along with fomenting racial strife in order to achieve “equity,” they are systematically shutting down production of affordable energy to cope with the “climate emergency.” Both of these cards are strategic, part of a multi-decade effort, with the ultimate objective being the destruction of America’s cultural unity and material prosperity. The motive is as old as history itself: centralization of power. The goal is a reversion to the mean, written across the centuries, of an elite few oppressing the many.
The irony is thick. A narrative of oppression drives the rioters in Los Angeles, even as they strive to tear down the least oppressive civilization the world has ever known, a civilization that defied the momentum of history, a civilization that embraced meritocracy and the opportunity for private ownership. A civilization where a middle class actually formed a majority of the population. A civilization where discrimination and racism had all but disappeared, a country where anyone who worked hard could join the ranks of the prosperous. That was the American reality until around 2008.
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