It seems that the coming collapse is all around us, and one can see this at a street level here in many parts of America; I get to travel in my paid job, and I have seen most of the things summarised below. What is obvious is uncontrolled crime in the Democrat run states, and regions. This is not restricted to major crimes against the person, but has expanded with go-soft measures to protect criminals, who are a “special” class to property crimes, such as shop stealing. I have seen many supermarket stores, with wall-to-wall lockups of even basic items such as tin meat, sweets, biscuits, breakfast cereal. As hard times are here, and inflation is killing the ordinary people, let alone those on welfare, stealing basics has become common. People need to eat before, say, using the latest cell phone. Homelessness is not dealt with as a social problem needing fixing, but instead, tent cities are allowed to grow like cancers on the landscape. This is not to degrade the homeless, many of whom have been made homeless by the globalist policies. All in all, there is a sense of deep cultural decline sweeping over many US places, which in turn are coming to resemble post-apocalyptic ruins.
And, this decay is part of a globalist plan, to collapse society, and level it, so that it can be rebuilt according to some demonic plan; if people do not resist as if their existence depended upon it. It does as this is the endgame now.
“Nordstrom announced this week that it would be closing its San Francisco stores due to deteriorating conditions in the city, vacating 300,000 square feet of retail space in the formerly upscale Westfield San Francisco Centre. They are not alone. Fellow clothier, Anthropologie, Office Depot, and grocer Whole Foods have also closed or announced plans to close shortly due to safety concerns amid an unchecked crime wave brought about by a refusal to prosecute crime. San Francisco is just one city in which social and economic order is collapsing.
Most blue states have enacted laws that treat theft of amounts below a given threshold – $700-$900 – as misdemeanors, meaning that even if a thief is caught stealing merchandise whose value falls below the threshold (a big if), he or she will be issued a summons but not arrested. The threshold amount, by the way, is per incident, not per person. So even if the same person is caught red-handed on multiple occasions, he or she will not be arrested unless the value of the goods with which he or she is caught exceeds the threshold amount.
The effect is to make prosecution of shoplifting, if not impossible, extremely improbable, an effect not lost on the thieves. Retail in such cities is doomed to death by a thousand cuts, even if the only insult were this de facto approval of theft. But it’s not. Leftist-dominated city centers have become unsafe, unsanitary, and unsightly.
The impact of green-lighting theft is amplified by the cities’ refusal to enforce laws proscribing public intoxication, indecency, nudity, lewd behavior, and aggressive panhandling. The ubiquitous and flagrant occurrence of all makes life miserable for those who live or work in these cities.
Rapidly growing populations of feral people gathering in these city centers are euphemistically referred to as ‘the homeless.’ Marxists want us to believe that drug-addled dereliction is a result of insufficient housing. That narrative drives an amazing array of agencies, programs, lobbyists, and appointments on which the role of government is grown without accountability for actually accomplishing anything. So they won’t discourage ‘homeless’ people from laying personal claim to public spaces, impeding public right-of-way while dumping raw sewage, used needles, and garbage. These infractions, too, are considered too low-level to warrant action. But even crimes that do warrant arrest won’t result in protecting the public from the criminal. ‘Bail reform’ laws make skipping a court date virtually consequence-free.
The stated goal of refraining from enforcing laws against “low-level” infractions was to unburden the system so that it could be focused on “serious” crime. Transforming a once-beautiful city into an unlivable hellhole seems a pretty serious crime to me. It is not only committed by the “low-level” thugs and thieves but by the Marxist politicians who are willfully undermining both social and economic order.
The collapse of social and economic order in cities run by Marxists is not a problem for them. It’s actually a strategy.
Were these store closures an unintended consequence of codifying Marxist ideology? No, not at all! And unless Marxists are pulled from power, not only can these cities not reverse course, they will double down on their ideological aversion to the economic order.
The tenets of Marxism are entirely alien to; incompatible with the values and worldview on which Western Civilization and the USA, in particular, is built. “Live and let live” is not possible with people whose conquest ambition requires destruction and subjugation. Seen against this incontrovertible fact, the collapse and conquer strategy being deployed becomes obvious.
Marxists in the city and state governments throughout have purposely cultivated the conditions of social and economic collapse. They do this in furtherance of three strategic objectives:
> Discredit the idea of corporate property rights as a manifestation of “corporate greed” endemic to “Capitalism.” Marxism claims communal ownership of all wealth and property, ownership of which should be exercised on behalf of the people by the flawless and ever-benevolent souls in government.
> Affirm “social justice” dogmas that assume wealth is gathered at others’ expense, the majority is always guilty of oppression, and unlawful actions of individuals (if members of favored collectives) are the result of previous injustice.
> Undermine economic order sufficiently to require intervention by government. When food, clothing, and other goods can no longer be effectively distributed by commerce, the task will fall to government by default.
Western Civilization is built on economic liberty, an equal and protected right of each person to trade on the value of his or her own talents, skills, knowledge, effort, and property and to own the wealth thereby generated. This doctrine is a natural extension of our respect for the equal standing of each person’s life and rights as the foundation of all moral conduct. When the liberty, equal standing, and property rights of each enjoy equal standing under the law, consent forms the basis of most interaction; a peaceable and productive condition of Ordered Liberty in which specialization and opportunity flourish, progress is swift, and prosperity grows.
This isn’t political theory but a hard-won reality that any honest recount of history will confirm. Having built a nation on the moral bedrock of respect for the equal standing of each person’s life and rights (property rights among them), we are not willing to regress to the age of conquest under the boot of the Marxists who seek our demise.
Ordered liberty is worth fighting for.”