A Santa Barbara city councilman inadvertently let slip the primary purpose of progressivism in 21st century America.
The city recently criminalized the use of plastic straws. Speaking to that issue, Councilman Jesse Dominguez said, “Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Got that? “We” are smarter than you and know what’s best for you better than you do.
Perhaps realizing that his comment revealed a fundamental truth of progressive thought, Dominguez tried to walk back his gaffe:
The comment sparked an immediate backlash from people who read the quote in Noozhawk and other local media, wondering “did he really say that?” Yes, he did, and on Tuesday, Dominguez apologized for the comment.
“I just wanted to apologize,” Dominguez said at the beginning of the meeting. “A few weeks ago I made a string of words in a rhetorical fashion about regulation and they were not taken as rhetorical and that’s my fault so I want to apologize.”
A “string of words in a rhetorical fashion”? Try again, kid.
Now, we do have to admit that the good councilman has a point about Santa Barbara citizens lacking common sense. He’s on the city council, after all. Sort of an inversion of the great rhetorical question both Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan liked to ask: “Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?”
But “string of words”? I know of a new editorial board member at the New York Times who will buy that, but otherwise I think everyone can understand exactly what the councilman believes. That “string of words” combines into a noose for individual liberty. And common sense. Here’s to hoping the voters of Santa Barbara recover their common sense and pull the string on Dominguez (and his “words”) at the next election, along with the other five knuckleheads who voted for the plastic straw ban.
The essence of all politics is power. The essence of power is control. Who do we want exercising power/control over our daily affairs?
In our republic, it is the individual who should be free to exercise control over his daily life as long as that control or exercise thereof does no harm to anyone else. That is the essence of individual liberty and has made America an exceptional nation among nations.
But for the entirety of our history, the individual has been at war with the state over the question of liberty vs. control. In a rational society, there are sacrifices individuals make for the good of the community. Liberty, after all, must have limits or anarchy reigns. So for 230 years, we have battled each other over differing concepts of individual liberty and the limits of state power.
Lately, individual liberty has been getting squeezed by a cadre of statists who believe they have been born with the right to tell everyone else what to do and how to live their lives. To enforce this belief, they have hijacked the enormous power of the state, nibbling away at individual rights in the name of “community.”
They couch their tyranny in soothing words, but the result is catastrophic for liberty. In truth, many Americans have abandoned ideas like personal responsibility and freedom of choice. It’s so much easier to be told what to do — to be ordered around like children.
So, in a very real sense, Councilman Dominguez may have “let the mask slip” to reveal his true intent, but will probably be re-elected anyway. Thus, we can answer Ben Franklin’s famous warning about our republican form of government.
Sorry, Ben. We couldn’t keep it.
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“Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.”
Unfortunately, you’re an unmitigated moron.
That’s the agenda, of course, but you’re not supposed to tell the sheeple to their faces.
Good find, Paul. I saw this one over at FotM, but had already sent enough in by then. 🙂
Yeah, “the agenda.” Easy to see he’s read the manual.
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“Liberty, after all, must have limits or anarchy reigns. So for 230 years, we have battled each other over differing concepts of individual liberty and the limits of state power.”
If liberty has limits then it is NOT liberty. And I ask, WHO is it that will set those limits? This is precisely what the commies would have people believe, “We must set limits to your liberty.”
Had the common law and bill of rights not been hidden from the people we would know precisely the meaning of individual liberty and the limits of state power.
We have the liberty to do as we choose so long as willing to bear the results of those actions against another American.
“If liberty has limits then it is NOT liberty.”
They use that word the same as they use ‘democracy’ instead of Republic, Katie.
Liberty is something a sailor is GRANTED. He is not free, he must return to duty after a designated length of time.
Liberty is NOT freedom.
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Definition of liberty-freedom from slavery, captivity, or any other form of arbitrary control. Websters concise edition.
“Liberty is something a sailor is GRANTED. He is not free, he must return to duty after a designated length of time.”
My dictionary says, “leave given to a sailor to go ashore for 48 hrs. or less.”
The way the attorners twist words, looks like FREEDOM is the word to use as there is NO wiggle room.
You would be right if liberty was something granted by a higher authority, it is not. It is something we are born with and it is the absolute liberty to go, do, and speak anything we want to, unless we violate the inherent liberty of another free national to do the same.
Our common law courts are supposed to be there to define whose liberty takes precedent and in accordance with the procedural due process.
In reality, that is absolutely true, Henry.
But I was speaking in terms of the Matrix, where we’ve been ‘officially’ informed that words are now ‘infinitely malleable’.
Intelligent people know the difference, however. 🙂
Brilliant nutshell, Katie.
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“Liberty, after all, must have limits or anarchy reigns.
An means no.
Archy means Arkons or rulers or ruling class.
Anarchy means no rulers or no ruling class.
When there are no rulers, there are no slaves.
Anarchy does not mean chaos.
Republic is also constantly incorrectly defined.
Plato defined a Republic first.
Yes, I did read it years ago.
Plato defined a Republic as a society ruled by Philosopher Kings.
In common language, an Elite Ruling Class.
The U. S. Corporation we live under is truly a Republic along with every other country on this planet. ALL countries are ruled by an Elite ruling class of Philosopher Kings.
All right, tongue twister, you had a good run. Which f#@king communist are you?
There are rulers in the United States. Each individual man is a king, each individual woman is a queen. And we are absolutely not slaves.
The only problem we have in this country is that our people’s law, which is the American nationals’ Bill of Rights is being attacked by outside forces.
Don’t play your f#@king games with me. I know what anarchy is. There is no standard and the biggest groups rule whatever area they can hold.
You get your anarchy preaching treasonous ass the f#@k off this site. When this is all said and done, you are going to find zero aristocrats, but you are also going to find absolute law, it is called the Bill of Rights, and any son of a bitch speaking in any way against that Bill of Rights is an enemy to each and every individual. You better remember that f#@king word, individual. As far as you anarchists are concerned, you are too pathetic to be any kind of threat, though if you try f#@king with our Bill of Rights, we will take the time to put dirt in your treasonous faces.
Now get the f#@k off this free people’s site.
Henry, I appreciate you railroading this “present Railroader” of our Bill of Rights. You can hear yourself think even through the ear ringing, your comment is evidence of that! 🙂
Every aspect of human lives is governed by your culture, but not by government. It is through cultural ethics mores, and folkways that these things are controlled.
Now that our culture and that of other nations are being totally destroyed, this is what we get.
So, common sense isn’t common, eh? This story should be all over the news, a major and pervasive headline. The obnoxious assumption that this councilman makes is so demeaning, so dehumanizing that it should be considered one of the major reasons the people are rebelling and want no one lording over them.
It pretty much shows that politicians are told we are just bugs, pesky bugs, who, without their divine guidance would just fail at everything. Well, get out of the way, buddy. You and your cronies have made a mess of the world and just about every non-politician on earth could do a better job.
But thank you, Councilman Dominguez, you are helping to ignite a fire of fed-upedness. We’re not gonna let you talk down to us anymore, demean us, marginalize us. We-The-People are smart, strong, resourceful, and unstoppable, and we are The Bill of Rights, packed and loaded with “COMMON SENSE.”
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Very well put. 🙂
I do appreciate that moment of honesty by the Progressive Councilman, even if it was by accident. Here is the great unbridgeable divide: those who want to control others and those who want to be left alone. Compromise is NOT an option here. As for his non-apology apology I am calling bull shit on it. He mean ever word of what he said. He told the Truth. Take him at his word, those are his real intentions and goals. Same goes all the others. And if you will not consent, know your history and know that they will without hesitation kill you.