{"id":84201,"date":"2023-01-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84201"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T19:48:13","slug":"make-orwell-fictional-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=84201","title":{"rendered":"Make Orwell Fictional Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I swear, it’s not the Babylon Bee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/GavinNewsom\/status\/1611517218944319488\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ll spell it out<\/a> for DFLers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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California might arguably be freer when it comes to some social behaviors, but in most areas\u2014starting and operating a business, pursuing work<\/a>, building housing, educating our kids free from government control\u2014it is unquestionably among the nation’s least-free states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our tax rates<\/a> are so high that Californians mainly are free to work longer hours to pay for a modicum of mostly shoddy services. Keeping the money one earns is in some ways the ultimate freedom issue. Is Newsom unaware that our population is declining\u2014as people flee our sunny clime and magnificent scenery for Godforsaken places such as Nevada and Oklahoma?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Newsom demonstrates what PJ O’Rourke said: to Republicans, freedom means freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, keeping and bearing arms; to Democrats, it’s the right to wave your private parts around in public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if the actual goal is to debase the language – to make “freedom” a synonym for “the stifling reassurance of government control” – then Newsom probably is on the right track. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Tim Walz is doing a fine job of emulating him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I swear, it’s not the Babylon Bee: I’ll spell it out for DFLers: California might arguably be freer when it comes to some social behaviors, but in most areas\u2014starting and operating a business, pursuing work, building housing, educating our kids free from government control\u2014it is unquestionably among the nation’s least-free states. Our tax rates are so high that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84211,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84201\/revisions\/84211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}