The cancerous war on the west

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The Cancerous War on the West by John Shanahan February 10, 2022 Domestic and foreign enemies of North America and Europe have been working to destroy freedom and the capitalistic economic system since the 1970s. Like the growth of cancer cells, their efforts are reaching a point when they’ll cause tremendous change that could bring down North America and Europe in all the marvel and glory of their liberty and prosperity. North Americans and Europeans are familiar with cancer and war. Both have similar beginnings and endings. In between, there is a lot of loss and suffering. In the human body, millions of cancer cells multiply without detection in the beginning. Since there are over 25 trillion cells in the average adult male body, several million cancer cells are a tiny fraction and go unnoticed. Similarly, the many precursors to global war seem too small to interest the public. Only when significant violence happens do the media start covering it and political leaders begin to act. Regional and global wars in the past were horrific. It is a wonder that humanity survived. It is possible but, knowing human nature, it is not likely that large-scale wars could be eliminated in the future. Most likely they will happen again. How soon? And will they look the same as past wars? The situation in San Francisco, California, is one place to examine the failure of government that could lead to serious conflict. Michael Shellenberger has been covering it. He is a great American who has been on many sides of important topics in America in the last forty years. He has got it right now! His topic in this essay is only a few heartbeats away from being applicable to all of North America and Europe. Berkeley and San Francisco in the early 1970s were better than in 2022. My wife and I lived in Berkeley, and I worked in San Francisco at an international engineering and construction company designing nuclear power plants. California was still beautiful, though hippies had taken over San Francisco and Berkeley. The Vietnam War was dividing the American people. A heroic law enforcement officer became a undercover hippie for ten years to hunt down Bernardine Dohrn, a terrorist determined to kill elected leaders. Yet, later California gave Dohrn a position as a law professor (!) at one of its universities.

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