My beloved loyal readers, tens of thousands of you, know that several social problems have been perplexing to me. I consider it my personal responsibility to treat these problems as a challenge.
So, it is with great pride that I have developed a nearly complete Theory of Everything. It is a theory of everything that has been perplexing to me.
At the center of my problems is why all cities vote Democrat. Subsidiary problems deal with Lefty unhappiness, prevalent political mean-spiritedness, common self-hate and widespread anti-Americanism.The answer is to be found in a thesis developed more than a century ago by Frederick Jackson Turner. What is known at Turner's thesis is that America's vitality and enthusiasm originates in the wide open West. Because Americans could always leave behind the misery, oppression, European class warfare and stultifying city life for the great West, they had energy, vigor and optimism. (I'm giving the Turner thesis a more interesting twist than Turner did.)
So the Turner thesis is my Theory of Everything. Cities are what people run away from, if they can. They run to the suburbs if they are optimistic and vigorous. That leaves the dominant life form in the city: angry, mean-spirited, self-hating, anti-American Democrats. That disproportionately includes trust-funders, non-profit do-gooders, academics, government employees and union supporters.
California has in the past been the land of optimism and innovation. Movies, exuberance, the weakest class consciousness in the country, good schools, freeways and clean non-partisan politics. The last vestiges of the West was when California became the home of the hippies and the San Francisco peninsula became the home of the modern electronic, computer and Internet world.
Suburbs are generally joyful, enthusiastic, cooperative and Republican. Optimistic people leave the city. That leaves the cities with the Democratic malaise mongers.
That is my Theory of Everything.
I happen to live in San Francisco, so I know that there are a few people, like myself, who are optimistic, pro-commerce and pro-American in cities. We are the extreme isolated exceptions. I simply contend that we are the weeds. The rare survivors. We survive in the urban world simply because we love the diverse environment and have the super strength to survive the onslaught of misery around us.