Want to think of something scary for Halloween night? Consider the modern American city.
In 2025, the handwriting is clearly on the wall. New York City is evidence of this, if we needed more. Whatever the results of next week’s election, it is clear that the City – and the entire urban area it anchors – is in serious trouble.
Why? We at TPOL submit that this is exactly what we should expect of parasites. Ultimately, most parasites kill their host/victim. And as a result, die themselves. Government and its officials and employees are those parasites on the American body politic. And stupid.
American cities (at least in their present form) are doomed. The more extreme of us would point out, “the sooner, the better.” The vast megalopoli are ungovernable; their economic systems function (barely) in spite of their governance and society; their societies are decadent and decaying ever more rapidly.
And virtually every action taken by governmental bodies adds to (and even speeds up) that process of decay. Even while they proclaim all the wonderful things they are doing. Are going to do. Have done.
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The Price of Liberty 
Pushing free speech – where?
An appeals court has reversed a lower court ruling that a Wisconsin mother defamed a teacher of her children, and the school district, in a social media post in 2022. Calling her “Woke” and sarcastically a “White savior” because of what was being taught and noting that the teacher was also the school’s DEI coordinator was just an opinion and vague enough to not merit a charge of defamation.
Scarlett Johnson, the mom, said the lawsuit was intended to intimidate her and others, especially members of the Wisconsin chapter of Moms for Liberty. We would tend to agree, given that it has taken three years to get to this point.
Although Mrs. Johnson was aided by volunteers, donors, and the MFL organization, most Americans do not have the financial wherewithall to fight such a protracted legal battle. And have to give up, or suffer even more. There is no doubt that just in recent memory, there are thousands of Americans who have chosen not to speak out on matters like this for fear of just this sort of thing.
It is not just government-run schools and DEI advocates and the like who try to intimidate and even punish people for speaking out.
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