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By Peachy Keenan
Watching the meetings and town halls in Los Angeles featuring the nitwits in charge getting yelled at by enraged homeowners as the city burned was enlightening. Again and again, the ridiculous Mayor Karen Bass, an openly communist revolutionary, brought up a persistent theme: the cult of safety.
The term "safetyism" became popularized in The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. It refers to the way modern society is overprotective and overbearing, the ultimate helicopter state, which has led to excessive and even destructive regulations that don't actually keep you safe, and which in fact may endanger you.
During President Trump's visit to Pacific Palisades and the round table meeting he held with California's worst supervillains, Karen Bass repeatedly admonished the angry, devastated Palisades homeowners that "the most important thing is your safety." The homeowners were angry about the timeline they had been given by L.A. County officials. According to the bureaucrats, it would take 18 months to clear the burned-out lots. Bass insisted they would be able to start rebuilding "immediately." When pressed on the 18-month clean-up the city was planning, she hedged with, "Well, you know that you will be able to soon. The most important thing is keeping you safe."
President Trump countered: "Safe? They're not safe now." | 
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