"Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up against it, and waits there always to reclaim that to which civilization has temporarily laid claim."—historian Will Durant
Durant made this same point in a shorter quote, which I really like: "Civilization is an occasional and temporary retreat from the jungle." The jungle has no law. That makes it easy for predators, even the human kind. It is civilized, virtuous laws that man cannot abide for long.
I have never been in a real Amazonian-type jungle, and, being the age I am, have no real desire to go to one. But I do like to watch jungle survival movies, where 10 people go in and only two—the male and female who fall in love—come out alive. There's just still something in me that enjoys watching obnoxious, liberal Hollywood actors get eaten by snakes and crocodiles. I guess I'm not the only one who relishes it; there are plenty of such movies to be seen.
So, even though I've never been to an Amazonian-type jungle and have no desire to go to one, I think I would feel safer there than I would today in Minneapolis, Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and a host of other Democratic Party-run American cities. Buck Owens—do you remember him?—sang about New York City: "It ain't nothin' but a concrete jungle…" And that was about 50 years ago. Is there any civilization left in that city? Well, there won't be if Zohran Mamdani gets his way.
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I'm only partly being facetious in the above paragraph. While there certainly are (I hope) some decent people remaining in America's metropolises, the jungle, the barbarians, certainly exist in those places, in huge numbers, and are increasing exponentially. Civilization is retreating, as it always does in the face of a jungle. And the jungle waits for nothing or no one.
There is a stretch of very nice flora and fauna partially surrounding the parking lot of the condo building I live in. It grew to such mammoth proportions that, a few months ago, the condo management had to cut it way back lest it overrun the whole place. "Haha," said the jungle, and now management needs to do it again. Contrary to popular (leftist) belief, the Amazon jungle will grow back a whole lot faster than farmers can cut it down.
That's because the jungle knows no law. The only law it recognizes is to grow, eat, or be eaten, take every inch you can, and don't stop for anything. Now, if that doesn't describe the current state of Tim Walz's Minneapolis, then nothing does. It's a jungle. We shouldn't be surprised. Read the Durant quotes again.
Why does the Democratic Party let this happen? And they are letting it happen; it is deliberate, there is no question about that. They want the jungle, the barbarism, to grow in America. It is all part of their eventual vision for the country. Let it be overrun by barbarians first. Later, they will do something about it.
Let me mention a couple of reasons the Democrats are letting this happen. Number one, they are just evil people. Evil people do evil things, aren't—at least in mind and spirit—civilized themselves (civilization can be partly defined as the restraint of evil), and are thus encouraging the lawlessness of the jungle in the cities and states they control. They want it to happen because they are evil. Good people stop barbarians from overrunning their places of abode. The Democrats aren't doing that for the simple reason that they are not good people. They are evil, pure, 100 percent, unadulterated evil.
But a second reason they let it happen is that it fits with their vision of what they want America to become—a country with a totalitarian government which they control. If the jungle grows and grows and grows virtually non-stop, like the Democrats are allowing, then eventually lawlessness comes to dominate, or at least, be such that good, honest, decent people who wish to live in peace and safety will want something to be done. Who can stop barbarians except government with total power?
Totalitarian governments, such as the Soviet Union and China, are very often instituted after civil wars. Most people don't want a civil war in their country; it is obviously a very dangerous and disruptive thing, and they will usually give up some or all of their freedoms to be protected against such a catastrophe. Or against barbarians. A barbarian uprising (which usually follows a barbarian invasion), as is happening now in Minneapolis and other Democratic Party-run cities, will also require force to eventually put it down. And force, not freedom, is what Democrats believe in.
Folks, the Democrats will eventually stop the barbarism in their cities. They will stop it when they are given the power to do it. They will encourage the barbarism as long as Donald Trump and American values are honored and cherished by millions of Americans. But again, eventually, good people get tired of the chaos and danger and are willing to sacrifice their freedoms for security. When they do that, they will end up with neither, but it sounds good. Give the Democrats the power the CCP has in China, and they will be happy. And they'll stop the barbarism. And stop any freedom they don't like. That's the price you pay to halt the growth of the jungle.
So, this is all deliberate for the Democrats. Encourage the growth of the jungle until they, with the total power they crave, are given the power to stop it. And, as in the USSR and PRC, all freedoms that they don't permit will cease. It's the plan, and it seems to be working.
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