Commentary
I don’t agree with everything the journalist H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) said or did, but he certainly was a fount of brilliant quotes.
One I particularly like is “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.”
Another, that I have referred to before, is “When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.”
Put those two together and you have the essence of what we might call “California Leftism.” It’s actually the essence of leftism everywhere, but it seems to have reached the apotheosis of hypocrisy in our Golden State, although Washington state and Oregon are giving it a run for its, well, money….
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