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The Moralists of San Francisco

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By Selwyn Duke

In the latest bid by the new-morality police, the City by the Bay
has decided to prohibit pharmacies from selling cigarettes. And this is
just the beginning; the left is chock full of good ideas about how
government can save us from ourselves.

If
there ever was an example of projection, it’s when liberals accuse
traditionalists of the imposition of values. In truth, no one seeks to
impose his vision of virtue on others with jihadist-like zeal more than
the modern left. A case study in this is San Francisco, the topsy-turvy
metropolis where the government cares about you so much that it’s going
to make sure you’re healthy if it kills you. Not only has it prohibited
pharmacies from selling tobacco, it had already mandated that employers
provide paid sick leave, and, according to SFGate.com:

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11 responses to “The Moralists of San Francisco”

  1. John Avatar
    John

    All of these SF save us from ourselves types have another seldom discussed dilemma. Although admittedly less required in SF than in most liberal metropolitan areas how about birth control methods. We are exposed to commercials every day on TV that inform us that while the new birth control products can provide us with important benefits women must remember that if over the age of 35 there are additional health concerns and smoking increases these risks. The non-communicated message is that if you are a non-smoker you then only have the health risks of the birth control. I can see those of us moralists against birth control pushing our personal views on a very large part of their population liberal or not with their argument.
    We are just trying to save you from yourselves!!
    Certainly something to think about.

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  2. Mike Bakunin Avatar
    Mike Bakunin

    Duke wrote:
    “And this is just the beginning; the left is chock full of good ideas about how government can save us from ourselves.”
    And just who are you, Rev. Right, trying to save us from Selwyn?
    The boogeyman of your own moral imagination?

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  3. Thailand Bob Avatar
    Thailand Bob

    Hey, that chick in the picture is hot. She yours Selwyn?

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  4. W. Tieff Avatar
    W. Tieff

    “And just who are you, Rev. Right, trying to save us from Selwyn? ”
    Hey Mike,
    Selwyn is, as always, inferring that We The People, armed with the Truth, should be able to save ourselves, and not let BiG GoverNment shoulder their way into our lives… Selwyn is not, and never has, offered to save you or I or anyone from anything. If you cannot grasp that concept, then you should stop reading his blog.

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  5. Mike Bakunin Avatar
    Mike Bakunin

    Tieff,
    Well, you may have a point! People of Duke’s bent don’t really want “to save” anybody. It’s all about them and how much they can get. Of course, they call it “Freedom.”
    But it’s their freedom, their values, their religion and mainly their money they’re talking about. Duke, like all right wingers, may care about “the soul,” but where their real focus lays is “the pocketbook.”
    Okay…if you don’t think Duke’s got an agenda bigger than Texas (he’s said on his site that he considers himself a “revolutionary,”) maybe you and I could talk about some swamp land I’ve got for sale in Florida.
    P.S.
    (I’m not discounting Duke at all by this. He’s a formidable guy and a talented writer. And I hope you don’t mind me opening his site again. I’ll try to check in with you beforehand next time.)
    Mike

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  6. W. Tieff Avatar
    W. Tieff

    You do that.
    VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!! lol..
    Is it just jealousy at the heart of the Left’s hatred of the American Dream? Or is it ‘right’ious indignation for the percieved selfishness of capitalist entrepenuership? Maybe it’s the whole idea of competition in a free (or mostly free) market… “Fairness” seems to be the go-to morality these days, which would make sense, as this Nation was founded on the principle that “all men are Created equal”. But I’m not so sure that “fairness” has anything to do with Equality. I have an idea that “fairness” has more to do with respect. And respect has to be earned, otherwise it would be “unfair” to those that work harder than their “equals”. – just an idea is all………….

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  7. Mike Bakunin Avatar
    Mike Bakunin

    Tieff,
    May I please have your kind permission to reply?
    Humbly,
    Mike

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  8. W. Tieff Avatar
    W. Tieff

    Yes, absolutely. And I’ll even give you top dollar for that property you offered… I’m looking into buying some real estate to diversify my net holdings.. although on second thought maybe not till next year. My budget’s a little tight right now, just like everyone else. 🙂

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  9. Mike Bakunin Avatar
    Mike Bakunin

    Tieff,
    The “American Dream” has left for China with most of the American industry that allowed its possibility. That trip was engineered by what you called the “selfishness of capitalism.” What we have here now, is better described as the Mexican Dream with foreign nationals usurping what belongs to an American work force. That too, is product of the “selfishness of capitalism,” and a product of the disloyalty of a government that allowed it and the corporate crooks that paid for it.
    Fairness is not the “go-to doctrine” of the day. Greed is! And the proof of that is where we are as a nation today, in terms of prosperity and the loss of that American Dream you asked about.
    The notion that competition brings out the best in a society is nonsense. Competition in its purest form produces only winners and losers. We don’t even have legitimate competition left to us. The winners are not the best producers. They are the ones with the best lobbyists. And the ones who can raise the most cash to pass along to those in the government who do their bidding.
    This battle of left verses right and conservative verses liberal is a phony war that serves only the status quo.
    What will serve the people of this country is a position that is neither left nor right. But one that embraces the best of those opposing forces, a Third Position. If the American dream is to be realized again, it can only come from there.
    Mike

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  10. W. Tieff Avatar
    W. Tieff

    I thought you might say that.. I was wary of the answer, but not afraid to ask the question.
    However, your reasoned disolusionment notwithstanding, I’m not so sure that a few bad corporate apples and misguided trade policies are necessarily the proverbial stake through the heart of the American dream. If that is all it takes, then dreaming may be all that anyone will ever do. And yet every day people all accross the country bring home more and more money and prosperity, more than their parents could have dreamed… Not everyone, mind you. It would be nice if all citizens were provided, at birth, with the sum total of America’s prosperity, endowed by their creator. But NOT ONCE in our young nation’s history has that EVER been the case. So if it is not now, and never has been the case, then how do you explain the simple folk with McMansions in suburbia, who sell Insurance, or administer Health Care, or own a pre-fab metal framing business? Was that all just handed to them by the government? Hell no! They went out and grabbed it by the horns! Greed? Yes. Selfishness? Maybe… Fairness? Only what was earned by hard work. So yes, solutions to the problems of how American manufacturing has sailed away will not come from Right or Left. But that’s not the point. The important thing to remember is that solutions WILL be found, as long as We The People are still around to look for them. Because that is definitely what America does best. We pursue dreams of the things we want, or want for others, even.. and then we share it with someone else. 🙂

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  11. Terry Frank Avatar
    Terry Frank

    This is a riot. No cigarettes, but yes to this:http://www.zombietime.com/up_your_alley_2008/
    Thank goodness they’re looking out for public health!

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