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Listen up, worker ants: People's Commissar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is, once again, more than a little interested in what's on your dinner plate.

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She begins by lamenting what a classic food desert the Bronx is, discriminating against minorities because she couldn't find fresh basil at the local bodegas for a gazpacho recipe she was making at home.

As a Bronx resident, there have been many times, it's almost a way of life, where it can be very difficult to get access to fresh and healthy foods. I remember one of the earliest times, like, one of the worst stories I have about this, was that I was very excited, to make, I think I was making gazpacho, or something like that, I looked at this recipe, I needed basil, and um, I was going home, and I get off the subway station, and I go into the grocery store and there's no basil, no fresh basil in the grocery store. so then I walked to another grocery store, two blocks down. No fresh basil! I was very stubborn about making this recipe that evening, and I must have been, walked around for an hour, in the neighborhood, visitng four or five grocery stores, and there was no basil, no fresh basil in any of them! And it just goes to show, it's very illustrative of the difficulties that we have in our comunities in accessing fresh produce, and even when we do, or are able to access some of that fresh produce, a lot of times it's on a styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic, um, or if you are able to access it it may have been sprayed with tons of pesticides or what have you, and it's almost as if to access the good stuff, you have to travel to affluent neighborhoods to do that.

As if inner-city people in the Bronx will gladly pay six bucks a bunch for fully organic, un-plastic-wrapped, sustainably produced fresh basil, same as she would. Yes, some do. But unlike her, they plan their shopping ahead in Manhattan, and they shell out, same as the rich people do.

She seemed to suggest that it was her mission to have the government force the tiny businesses to stock fresh basil, and she'd command people to eat it, too.

Three problems with this, according to a conversation with Thomas Lifson. He notes:

1. She assumes merchants don't know what their customers want.

2. She assumes people will buy and eat what they are presented with (like a commissar).

3. She assumes that it is OK for basil to rot on shelves, and (small) merchants should keep providing it at a loss.

These are all classic cases of where socialist central planning goes wrong. The businesses in the Bronx operate by market demand and the kinds of costs they can bear, given their business conditions, as well as what their customers will pay for. If stocking fresh basil on demand every day of the week is what she wants, then by golly, she's going to make it her cause to denounce the merchants for not stocking it to be available for the exact time she wants some. Basil for the millions!

One problem: Basil is highly season-sensitive, and not even the fanciest supermarkets downtown always have it, either. She doesn't seem to know that vegetables have seasons any more than she would have guessed that tropical yuca, a Caribbean staple favored by the Bronx's Jamaican, Trinidadian, and Guyanese immigrants, does not grow — at all — well in the winter-and-summer Bronx. I wrote about that here. Oh, and the cauliflower she denounced as white-bread 'colonial,' probably because of its color, grown in local Bronx community gardens, is very much a staple in many Caribbean cuisines, but she wasn't happy about that, either. She wanted them growing yuca.

There's a helluva a lot of stuff she doesn't know about crop growth, cooking, or the business climate, and cripes, she worked in the food service industry.

Having lived in the South Bronx off the Elder Avenue subway stop, I know it's tough to be dependent on food shopping at the local bodegas and occasional small Korean green markets. The Korean markets, in fact, work extremely hard to provide this service, and they just can't match the larger grocery operations in all ways in Manhattan. They are just too tiny and cannot get cost benefits of scale. Bodegas, meanwhile, are nothing more than convenience stores. They specialize in stocking dry foods because that's what's most economically sustainable, given their economic positioning and what their customers will pay for. They also stock foods their customers want and can afford (there's a reason Ocasio-Cortez's called-for boycott of high-quality Goya canned and other shelf-stable foods found in bodegas flopped), and the people who want fresh basil aren't sufficient for wide-scale stocking of the highly perishable product. Bronx residents who want fresh basil know they need to get to Manhattan to get some and plan ahead. Ocasio-Cortez should have been cursing herself for not going back to Manhattan to get some; a real Bronx local familiar with cooking would have known that. I'm astonished she didn't know that. It must have been her first time cooking. New York City is famous for its schlepping on the subway; you typically can haul only two grocery bags at a time, and one is better, so you make frequent small trips to the fancy groceries — Dean & DeLuca, Gristedes, etc. (some probably aren't there anymore), and plan your meal and cooking schedule ahead.

But the urge to central-plan among socialists is very, very strong. That's what she really wants: to command stores to stock fresh basil or whatever else her food whim dictates. The Obama administration tried it — first with Michelle Obama's state-dictated healthy foods program on schoolchildren, which ended up as 'nasty, rotty' food when the local union workers couldn't prepare it properly and the food budgets ran out based on all the expensive ingredients required, leaving meager plates for the kids, and the kids rejected the food, throwing most of it in the trash, consoling themselves with their own black markets for 'Flamin' Hot Cheeto Fries' instead. The Obamatons, under Cass Sunstein, also tried it under their famous 'nudge' program, dictating where food items would be placed on store shelves.

But why stop at Obama? The urge to dictate what's on every citizen's plate is also what Hugo Chávez used to do: first commanding community rooftop gardens, which failed miserably, and then commanding the eating of rabbit. They don't have much food at all now in that hellhole, and the average Venezuelan has lost 20 pounds based on all the food shortages the command-and-control economy created, dictated from above, all for their own good. That's some diet imposed by socialism. Most of us would rather do our diets with fresh food, obtainable the market way.

One can only hope these people never obtain power.

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There is a scene in Peter Jackson's film 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' when Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions stand at the entrance to Mirkwood Forest, through which they must travel to reach their destination. Once lush, green and verdant, Mirkwood has become infested with evil. Bilbo hesitates to enter, saying, 'This forest feels ... sick.'

This country feels ... sick.

Even the briefest foray into social media, editorial commentary or what passes for 'news' makes it abundantly clear: America is sick. She is sick because her people have been fed a steady diet of propaganda, political theater and lies. This has become so extreme and so widespread of late that it is literally infecting every aspect of American society and turning ordinary Americans against one another.

I wrote about this two weeks ago, and -- as difficult as that seems -- conditions have worsened considerably since.

We'll start with the most recent: What happened on Jan. 6 was not an 'insurrection.' There was no serious attempt to 'overthrow' the United States government. Was there a riot? Yes. Was it deliberately disruptive of government business? Definitely. But an attempted coup? Ridiculous on its face.

We've seen plenty of riots in state capitols in recent years. Have these been called 'insurrections' or attempts to overthrow state governments? No. To the contrary, they have been lauded as examples of 'democracy in action,' as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.

Washington, D.C. -- including the Capitol itself -- has endured no small amount of violence in the past year and earlier (including massive unrest four years ago when Donald Trump was inaugurated). And the Capitol violence three weeks ago was caused by a small number relative to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who converged on Washington to make their voices heard peacefully.

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But it has become necessary to call it an 'insurrection' to justify the political theater taking place now.

First and foremost, of course, is the attempt by Democrats in Congress to impeach Trump for 'inciting insurrection.' Most people won't read the full text of Trump's speech that day. It was vintage Trump, confrontational and full of braggadocio, but in it, he explicitly told his supporters to 'peacefully and patriotically' make their voices heard.

But no 'insurrection' means no 'incitement,' and that would mean no impeachment.

The articles of impeachment are themselves a charade. As Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul stated on the Senate floor -- and to which 44 other Republican senators agreed -- the Constitution simply does not authorize Congress to take the action contemplated by an impeachment trial against a private citizen. Only a sitting president can be 'removed,' and Donald Trump is no longer the president of the United States. Further, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that Chief Justice John Roberts will not preside over an impeachment trial in the Senate -- another blow to those who claim that such a 'trial' on the House's single impeachment charge is legitimate. Finally, the 44 GOP senators who voted in favor of Paul's procedural motion prove that the 50 Democratic senators will not get the additional 17 Republicans they need for a two-thirds majority to convict.

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So, the impeachment shtick isn't about removing a man who is already gone, and it isn't really about getting a conviction either. It's more -- and more extreme -- political theater. If that's not bad enough, the country is also struggling to recover from months of COVID lockdowns. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio described the impeachment charge as 'stupid' and a waste of time.

And it gets much worse. The target of the 'insurrection' propaganda campaign is not so much Donald Trump as it is the 74 million-plus people who voted for him.

Americans were stunned when Hillary Clinton referred to only half of Donald Trump's supporters as a 'basket of deplorables' in 2016. But Trump had millions more supporters in 2020, and now all of them are being demonized by Democrats and their mouthpieces in the media as threats, as 'seditionists' and 'white supremacists' who need to be 'deprogrammed,' 'reprogrammed,' imprisoned in 'reeducation camps' or subjected to 'Nuremburg trials.'

These are not isolated remarks by fringe elements; they are comments made by 'mainstream' Democratic voices: Washington Post correspondent Eugene Robinson, media darling Katie Couric, MSNBC anchor Don Lemon, actor Jon Cryer, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Comments on these articles and tweets -- made by non-famous, left-leaning Americans -- are even worse.

This is beyond political difference. It is a sickness.

Conservative commentators Dennis Prager and Tucker Carlson have warned that the reckless hyperbole risks spilling over into reality. Prager opined this week that a population deceived into thinking that a political candidate is a murderous dictator will turn a blind eye to, and even support, election fraud, which only benefits those inclined to commit it. Carlson took the left to task in his opening monologue last Tuesday evening for relentlessly smearing innocent Americans, like bullies baiting their victims to -- finally -- throw a punch. The point Carlson made, emphatically, is that eventually, even the most peaceable and law-abiding person will retaliate in the face of baseless accusations and unfair treatment, contributing to a destructive cycle that threatens the fabric of society.

The political and cultural elites in this country consider themselves uniquely qualified to lead. But true leaders behave in ways that demonstrate their concern for the health of the organizations and people under their charge. They do not exploit differences and foment discord for their own personal aggrandizement.

I'm not seeing much true leadership now.