ALAN writes from St. Louis:

“What Americans are getting from Washington these days is less Big Brother than Big Mother–the new Momism of a federal government which thinks it has a duty to protect every man, woman, and child from everything….

“Even as government has failed utterly to accomplish its central mission–to protect society from crime and violence–it is meddling in all sorts of private matters that are none of its business…..”

Patrick Buchanan wrote those words in 1975 [“The new ‘Momism’ of Washington”, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, May 27, 1975, p. 8A].

What he described is called Anarcho-Tyranny. His words have even greater force today because the practitioners of Anarcho-Tyranny now include governors and mayors.

A few weeks ago, a longtime friend and I were talking about the horrors in the USA today. She and her family came to the USA from Hungary in 1957 after Communists began shooting their critics in late 1956.

I remember her father well. One day 55 years ago, he and I walked through the busy streets of downtown St. Louis with a feeling of confidence and optimism for the future. So I asked her:  If he were here today and could witness what we have seen and heard this year, what would he say? She replied, “I can’t tell you what he would say, but I can tell you what my uncle said.”  He is now 90 and living in New York City.  He said, “Where is the America we knew in 1957?”

I got a good laugh out of that—not because he is wrong but because he is dead-on-target right.  He knows it, she knows it, I know it, Lawrence Auster knew it, and many readers of The Thinking Housewife know it.  I can only imagine the revulsion he must feel when seeing Communist-trained thugs roam the streets of American cities destroying property at whim, vandalizing American statues and monuments, and celebrating their destruction with the Communist clenched fist.  “I have seen all of this before,” he may think to himself as he recalls the identical tactics of Communist thugs in Hungary and other East European nations after World War II.

Communist tyranny was bad enough.  What could be worse?  How about anarcho-tyranny:  The Communists did not force the people of Hungary to stop working at their jobs, stop socializing, and wear masks. The people of Hungary could recognize tyranny and had the backbone to try to oppose it.  But Americans today cannot recognize anarcho-tyranny in their midst.  The Freedom Fighters in Hungary in 1956 had the right spirit:  The spirit of revolt against unchecked power.  It is what Americans today quite obviously lack—to the benefit of the Communist-Feminist regime that they have allowed to take hold of their government, their lives, and their jobs.

By “the America we knew in 1957”, my friend’s uncle meant the nation run by strong, proud, confident, and unapologetic White men who created the highest standard of living the world had ever known and whose achievement was a beacon of hope to people tyrannized by Communist thugs.  That is the nation my friend’s uncle remembers and that I remember and that Lawrence Auster remembered when he wrote in 2001 that “America no longer exists”–meaning the national fabric and culture in which he had grown up, and that Herbert London remembered when he wrote in 2013 that “The world I’ve known has come to an end.”  Compared with what American culture has degenerated into today, that world was glorious.

The Communist pincer stratagem now attacks Americans from three directions:  By street gangs, by Big Lies in the Great Flu Hoax, and by a form of government and law that is morally bankrupt because feminized and apologetic when it must be masculine and confident.

Some of the consequences of such moral-philosophical bankruptcy that I have seen in St. Louis in recent weeks are:

–Broadway and Olive: Huge window boarded up.

–Broadway and Pine:  Window boarded up in former bank storefront.

–Sixth and Pine:  Vacant storefront where restaurant closed a few months ago.  Across the street, corner space that was once Lum’s Restaurant now remains vacant for decades.

–Sixth and Olive:  Starbucks window boarded up.

–Sixth Street near Olive:  Store going out of business.

–Seventh and Olive:  The huge Railway Exchange Building–one block square–stands abandoned and lifeless.

–Seventh and Pine:  Storefronts abandoned and boarded up.  Tall parking garage closed for years.  I remember when it was new in the early 1960s and when we used it many times when shopping at the wonderful Famous-Barr department store.

–Eighth and Olive:  Storefronts that were once Lipic Pen Company, Doubleday Book Shop, and Dooley’s Pub are now boarded up for decades.

–Ninth and Pine:  44-story office building–one block square–abandoned and lifeless.

–1000 block Locust:  Large windows of bicycle shop boarded up; BLM propaganda spray-painted.  (BLM is pure Communism.)

–1100 block Locust:  Parking garage and storefronts closed and abandoned for years.

–Tucker and Locust:  Hotel Jefferson building boarded up, vandalized, abandoned for 12 years now.

–Tucker and Olive:  Restaurant closed for years.

–1100 block Olive:  Storefronts boarded up for years.

–Multiple windows boarded up for months in building across from City Hall.

–The old Municipal Courts building, in the same block with City Hall, closed for years, now a preferred site for bums and agitators.

–1000 block Washington Avenue:  10 windows boarded up.

–Fourteenth and Washington:  No windows broken at “Self-Inflicted Tattoos”.

–Seventeenth and Pine:  Big hole in the ground where a 7-Eleven store stood for decades—until last June when thugs burned it down during the Communist-engineered riots.  Which is to say:  “The Law” in St. Louis allowed them to burn it down.  “The Law” had every responsibility to stop them, which it would have done in 1920 or 1950 and could have done in 2020.  But “The Law” did nothing.  Law-abiding citizens are thus victimized twice:  First by thugs, then by do-nothing government.  A perfect example of what Pat Buchanan wrote about in 1975.

–Eighteenth and Olive:  Huge Butler Brothers warehouse and factory building–one block square–closed and abandoned for years.  The words “Miss Elaine Garment Company” can be seen on rear wall near loading dock, a silent reminder of years when numerous companies had offices in the building.

–Branch library in hip, trendy Central West End:  Patron is asked to obey rules, throws a temper tantrum and vandalizes restroom.

–Central West End Metrolink station:  Eight large panes of glass used for advertising are boarded up for months.

–Carondelet Park:  Bridges and benches are vandalized with spray-paint.

–A popular restaurant on Meramec Street in business for a hundred years, now closed for good.  The owner said he closed it because of Covid 19.  That is not true, and he knows it.  Variations of “the flu” were going around in previous years, weren’t they?  Did he close his restaurant then?  No.  He closed it now because he was ordered to do so and he would not be able to reopen it until he said, “…..Mommy Government, may I…..?”

–I follow the route used many years ago by the Bellefontaine streetcars and see two and four-family flats boarded up; two 7-Eleven stores closed and remain boarded up for years; Eberhardt’s Pharmacy now boarded up for years; and corner confectionary where my boyhood pal Jeff bought baseball cards in 1958-’59 now boarded up.

–At midnight on workdays in 1970-’71, I deboarded my #73 Carondelet bus on Virginia Avenue and walked four blocks home through a small park and residential streets without a fear in the world.  At that location today, houses and storefronts stand in ruin.

–Hip, cool people now parade their pooches throughout the streets downtown, an expression of the most pampered and stupidest generations in history:  A downtown that is now made safe for dogs is left unsafe for dceent men, women, children, visitors, and merchants.

Seeing downtown St. Louis as the ghost town that it is today, another friend of mine said it now looks worse than East St. Louis.  That is true because there is no pretense of civilization in East St. Louis.  Most ruined houses and buildings were torn down or fell down years ago; hence, what remain there today are block after block of grass, weeds, or wildflowers.

–Hampton Avenue:  St. Louis Police Officers Association building has all five of its windows boarded up for months.  There is no better expression of the moral-philosophical bankruptcy of what is preposterously called “The Law”.  Lawrence Auster again, writing in 2011:  “By ‘America no longer exists’, I meant not that America literally does not exist, but that America in key respects no longer had the will to defend its existence as a nation.”  [Comment in “Is America Too Far Gone to Bring It Back?”, View from the Right, Nov. 19, 2011

Just so, “The Law” in St. Louis:  To board up windows in their own building as a “precaution” against thugs is to tell us who runs the streets of St. Louis and who doesn’t.

If the police will not defend their own property against thugs, then why would anyone expect them to defend anyone else’s property?  It is proof–if any more were needed–that Americans are done for.

My aunt’s brother was a police officer, I became friends with a former police officer in the 1970s, and I worked with a former officer in the 1990s.  All of them are deceased.  They would be horrified at what “The Law” has now become.

The “lockdown” is a perfect example of what Ayn Rand called non-objective law.  What does “non-objective law” mean?  It means tyranny.  When business owners who are put out of business by such law refuse to speak the truth and agree instead to accommodate lies and misrepresentations, they and their culture are done for.

Americans are now paying the consequences for decades of public policies of law enforcement and rule enforcement predicated on “nice” instead of on fixed, firm, and unapologetic.  In my judgment, they richly deserve those consequences.

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