I'm going to Asheville tomorrow, where fully a third of the police department has resigned. Asheville is currently twice as dangerous as the national rate, making it now one of the more dangerous cities nationwide. There is beginning to be some comment among the politicians there too.
Council members also heard a presentation from APD Chief David Zack regarding various categories of crime in the city. He noted that Asheville’s number of violent crimes, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, was about 45% higher in 2020 than in 2011.
Am I worried about riding into Asheville? Of course I am not. These will step widely around me. It is not the strong who suffer from increases in aggravated assault, robbery, or rape. The traffic is more dangerous to me than the criminals.
But I also have only one vote, and thus my opinion can be disregarded by the powerful. Those who live in fear have many votes, provided that elections can be returned to a ground where the votes of the people really matter.
"Think of the most average person you know. Then realize half the population is dumber than that." George Carlin.
ReplyDeleteThis is why democracies fail, and why the Founders insisted on a Republic.
Fully 25% of the populous has a 90 or lower IQ, and almost all of those cannot even think in conditional theoreticals, and struggle greatly with recursive abstract concepts. It's a daunting reality.
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