RR readers are familiar with the Great Divide debate that is growing across America as socialism’s autocracy reaches its tentacles into the last lairs of self-reliance and entrepreneurship. (See the Great Divide category link in the right panel.) The Colorado Eight are just the latest jurisdictions to express their yearning for a future not destined for a coerced comprehensive collectivism. (more here, and google ‘8 counties, Colorado’)
These eight counties may be on to something that can help preserve the Union, albeit in a restructured way that allows the Great Experiment bequeathed by our Founders to continue. To the idea of breakaway counties forming their own state (a la West Virginia), I offer that restructuring could come about in certain cases where such counties abut a neighboring state more congenial to the culture and values of such disenchanted populations. In the case of Colorado, these eight counties might consider appealing to Wyoming, if such a realignment is mutually attractive.
Here in California most of the more sparsely populated inland counties already stand raped by regulations from Sacramento and Washington. We have little in common with the liberal legions that dominate the coastal areas, and the two big metropolitan regions of the state. The new state of Sierra(?) is beginning to look better by the day.
There is no guarantee that such a restructuring will work because socialism is a disease powered by ideological evangelism – ‘We know what’s best for you, or else.’ And it spreads virally, appealing to the under-educated with promises of redistribution and through co-opting public education to manufacture more of the under-educated. But then again, we can dream …
[31jul13 update] For completeness, this contribution to RR’s Great Divide category was meant to elicit inputs from the Left that illustrate what drives such a notion of self-governance in the America of the 21st century. As of this writing it has done so in spades.
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The Liberal Mind – Expendable Dead for More Votes
Through extreme cynicism (read evil) or utter stupidity, the liberal candidates for mayor in NYC are again attacking the city’s ‘Stop, Question, Frisk’ policy which has been the centerpiece of policing that has dramatically reduced crime rates in that large metropolis. Last year SQF was material in dropping crime another 30% from the previous year. And now the leftwing candidates are all taking turns lambasting SQF as being a bad policy based on “racial profiling”.
The best that can be said about the lot of these politicians is that each of them is profoundly innumerate; the alternative is that they know better and are just being slime bags playing to voter ignorance in order to get elected. For openers, over 70% of NYC perpetrators are black, and only 53% of those stopped are black. And of those stopped, fewer than 9% are frisked.
Blacks make up about one in four or 25% of the city’s population, and constitute several times that percentage in perpetrating crimes and being victims of it by their ‘own hands’. Yet when the carefully trained NYC police practice SQF in a manner that **under represents** the proportion of blacks stopped, the slime bags take advantage of their ignorant constituencies and shout ‘racial profiling’.
The nearby graphic illustrates the situation that confronts the cop on the beat every time he starts a new watch. The blue rectangle denotes the NYC population, the black rectangle is the black population, the tan rectangle is the city’s non-black population. And the red rectangle represents the distribution of crime perpetrators. So the question in the very successful application of SQF is ‘What in hell is a cop supposed to do when he suspects that a person has committed a crime or is in the process of about to commit one?’
The situation about who the criminals are is so lopsided when it comes to race, that even under-applying SQF yields good results in the sense of drastically lowering the city’s crime rate, and in the process saving numerous lives annually. Those lives mean nothing to the sleaze bags who are willing to sacrifice anything to get elected. If they succeed in pulling back SQF, then the lives lost will be countable and directly attributable to their demagoguery. But we can bet the ranch that not one politically correct lamestream outlet will report on that. Why? Because it’s the wrong agenda; it doesn’t count if blacks kill blacks, just like it doesn’t count when Muslim fathers honor kill their daughters.
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