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| Newsom -- Eric RisbergAP |
The answer to the age old question – Will there always be a California? -- is “Yes.”
California is a state, a geographical location that cannot
not be moved to, say, the Eastern Seaboard, although people in California have
been bleeding into other states for years.
The governor of California is the resourceful Gavin Newsom,
who has just chosen as a temporary replacement for the dearly departed U.S.
Senator Dianne Feinstein Laphonza Butler, the President
of Emily’s List, the financing arm in the United States of Big Abortion.
Problem: Registration records indicate Butler lives in
Maryland, not California.
Solution to problem: Announce that Butler plans to establish
legal residence in California soon after Democrats, who have ruled the
political roost in “The Eureka! State” for decades, approve Gavin’s nomination
of Butler as an interim replacement for Feinstein.
Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon has issued the following
statement: "Butler is a longtime California resident and homeowner. She
moved to the DC area when she became president of EMILY's List. Butler will
re-register here before being sworn in."
Butler, after all, has several things going for her. She is
Black, a woman, a gay person who has yet to
announce the pronouns she wishes to be applied to her, and – perhaps most
importantly -- she is President of Emily’s List, a post she has said she will
surrender shortly after she is sworn in as California’s interim U.S. Senator.
Precisely how “interim” the appointment may be, is anyone’s guess.
California has been for decades on the cutting edge of what
the late Rush Limbaugh used to call “societal evolution.” Societal “revolution”
under neo-progressive auspices would speed up the process of change
considerably.
Although Newsom may not look like the late Karl Marx, he never-the-less
warmly embraces Marx’s revolutionary dictum that “The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
The last conservative Governor of California was Ronald
Reagan (1967-1975), who moved on to bigger and better things, becoming
President of the United States (1981-1989), a route, some commentators tell us,
Newsom hopes to traverse in the not too distant future.
The chief hurdle in Newsom’s way to the White House is
current President Joe Biden, to whom Newsom has pledged his fealty “till death
they do part.” Biden will be 84 years old, should he retain office when his
second term expires in 2028, and Democrats are rather hoping that the
octogenarian president will not expire before his prospective term ends.
God sometimes does work in mysterious ways, his miracles to
perform. And Feinstein died, after all, full of
years at age 90 with her congressional spurs on.
Biden’s Republican opponent for the presidency likely will
be former President Donald Trump, weighed down by more than 90 charges issued
in four separate criminal cases. Whether the weight of pending trials will be
enough to sink the Trump bid for re-election to the presidency is anyone’s
guess. We know that complex trials and appellate court challenges may last for
decades. The wheels of both justice and injustice in the United States grind exceedingly
slowly. Past attempts on the part of Democrats and certain Democrat friendly
echo chambers in the U.S. media have failed to sink Trump, the Moby Dick of the
country’s Democrat politicians.
Anti-Trump videos are piling up, even as polls
show Trump leading Biden among voting sectors Biden must capture to win the
presidency. Biden, for example, is losing support among culturally conservative
Blacks.
Blacks in the United States have in the past suffered from
racist court rulings, most notoriously the Dred
Scott v. Sandford decision (1857) that
held slaves to be property lawfully bought and sold rather than persons
enjoying the rights and immunities of the U.S. Constitution. The Black standard
of correct political behavior includes fidelity to the Constitution and a deep
seated mistrust of political parties that in the past have not been
sufficiently denounced by a media free of political ties – essentially, Martin
Luther King’s position.
The historic Democrat Party of the post-Reconstruction, Jim
Crow period has much to apologize for. A living memory will feel down the
generations the bites of dogs set on freedom fighters such as King and Malcolm X.
Those in the North who wrongly suppose that racism never
crossed the Mason-Dixon line have never read Henry David Thoreau’s Slavery
in Massachusetts.
Remembering should be an act of forgiveness, not
forgetfulness.
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