http://spectator.org/dont-put-these-people-in-charge-of-anything/May 18, 2016, 4:15 am
Scott McKay
Five recent examples showing no matter where, no matter how, giving the Left political power is a comically stupid idea.
The problem is, the Left — whether manifested by the Democratic Party in the United States or by other variants of the socialist movement elsewhere — has figured out how to weaponize its own failure of governance.
Typically, governments which fail catastrophically will invariably fold. The universal understanding that in order to maintain power a government will have to provide the necessary functions of a public sector — national security and law enforcement, infrastructure, basic health and education services, courts and the rule of law.
What we know in the 21st century is that the failure to provide adequately for those necessities, and particularly in concert with substituting other functions that are not necessities like wealth redistribution, regulating the intake of soda drinks, and micromanaging the use of real estate, is no longer sufficient to produce the removal of an incompetent government. What we know now is that rather than turn out a poisonous, overreaching gang of troglodytes in charge of a particular jurisdiction, the people contributing the tax base said troglodytes misappropriate from will simply decamp for better locales — and the rulers happily preside over the ruin that results, free of any particular threat of a middle-class revolt.
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