
Restaurants have been shut down (except for takeout orders), even for outdoor dining, for no scientific reason. It is becoming a police state, rooted in deception and irrationality.

None of that is allowed almost anywhere in California. "I even took my two grandchildren to a bowling alley, which was filled with people enjoying themselves playing myriad arcade games as well as bowling. At one of them, when I stood up to take photos of people dining, a patron who recognized me walked over and said, 'I assume you're just taking pictures of people eating in a restaurant.' That's exactly what I was doing." He doesn't see it in California. "First and foremost, I could eat both inside and outside restaurants. During these last five days in Florida, a state governed by the pro-freedom party, I went anywhere I wanted. and where, for nine months, normal life has been shut down, schools have been closed, and small businesses have been destroyed in unprecedented numbers. He continues here, Prager continues, "ere I am, sitting in a state where corruption reigns. It's such an amazing thing, what's happened politically to California - and actually so rapidly. The people that lived there, I thought, were hipper and I thought California was just an advanced culture and state - and it was, in many ways, and for most of that time the Republicans ran that state. California, I just knew it from television. I wouldn't get to go to California 'til - let's see - 1984, so I would have been 30 before I ever stepped foot in California, and it was not Southern California it was Sacramento, which turned out to be one of the greatest moves, greatest breaks I'd ever had.īut I can confirm what he's saying. "While America always represented freedom, within America, California exemplified freedom most of all." Now, as somebody who grew up in Missouri and spent the first 20 years of my life there and the only. He says, "For most Americans, the very name 'California' elicited excitement, wonder, even envy of Californians, and most of all.

RUSH: Dennis Prager today at The Daily website: "The Sovietization of California." I just want to share with you some pull quotes, not read the entire thing, because it is well done, it's well written, and it's extremely relevant and poignant. But if you live in a state where they're shutting you down, if you live in a state where you happen to own a small business that is a restaurant or a bar, good luck. It's all how you decide to live your life. So the darkest days ahead of us don't have to be. Dennis Prager has a similar piece called, "The Sovietization of California." It's a graphically dynamic piece. We're celebrating marriages and smiling at strangers." Life goes on. We're going out for dinner and drinks, and supporting local farmers and artisans. She said, "We're having friends over and going to church. People are taking precautions, sure, but they're also continuing to live their lives." We've never shut down like this for any pandemic or anything in the history of our country.


I can only guess that people are coming down to Florida because it's open here. She says, "I've flown in and out of the Orlando airport all my life, and I've never seen it half as crowded as it was this month. The patio was packed with guests from a wedding that had just taken place it was a huge party, unlike the sweet but limited ceremonies my friends were forced to have in Virginia," where, of course, the governor is Ralph Northam. "Families took Christmas photos in front of the lighted trees, and others caught rides in horse-drawn carriages circling the block. My family went out to dinner the other night at a patio bar overlooking our downtown square, all lit up for Christmas. It wasn't until I came home to Florida - where COVID-19 restrictions are much freer and usually left to local government - that I noticed how different life was. " I Moved from Locked-Down Virginia to Open Florida, and Faces Came Back to Life. This is Elle Reynolds, intern at The Federalist. I've got a story about somebody who was in Florida and was just amazed by how much different life is in Florida - which remains open - from the state she lives in in Virginia. What is happening to restaurants and small businesses in a lot of these blue states is inexcusable, and I've got two different stories today.
