In miserably run California, why bother with submissiveness?

© 2019 Peter Free

 

25 October 2019

 

 

Is there virtue in becoming a "populist" nutcase?

 

Here in northern California, we are facing the second power shutoff within about 3 weeks.

 

Despite

 

PG&E's whining about forest fire safety

 

and in spite of

 

our "shithole" state government's attempt to evade responsibility for decades of the (supposedly regulated) utility's incompetence

 

— whom else can one legitimately blame?

 

 

Why should Californians continue to submit to these (pun-nishingly) power-grasping extortions?

 

Narcissist president Donald Trump's phrase ("make America great again") accumulates appeal under these conditions.

 

The man's a genius with regard to tapping into existing tides of discontent.

 

 

The moral? — Is it time to start breaking chains?

 

Becoming an extremist nutcase, in preference to continuing as a hapless sheep in the dark, is an arguably rational choice.

 

Maybe we should look at preppers and militia folk with enthusiastic approval.

 

Is this airheaded populism, or something more fundamental?

 

What would Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine say?