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An Instagram post by popular podcaster Joe Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Experience, that referred to authoritarian and libertarian political theory, has received over 600,000 likes since it was posted to the site. In it, Rogan refers to the Hindu fourth world age, aka the Kali Yuma, and urges his followers and others to elevate themselves from the madness that is in the air.

Rogan is often at the center of controversy due to his often esoteric political philosophy, his many clashes over free speech issues, as well as his personal stance in regards to the COVID-19 virus. His iconoclasm has earned him over 13 million followers on Instagram but has also led to clashes with people across the political spectrum.

Kali Yuga is a reference to the Hindu concept of the four great Yugas, or ages, of the world. The Kali Yuga is the fourth and last of these and is associated with great strife, deprivation, and contention. The Kali Yuga derives its name from the demon (not the goddess) Kali, and Kali Yuga can be roughly translated as Age of Darkness, Age of Vice and Misery, and Age of Quarrel and Hypocrisy.

It is not known where Rogan sourced the graphic from, but he seems to be implying that, as times grow harder, those on the left of the political spectrum tend to drift towards more authoritarian ideals while those on the right tend towards the center or right forms of libertarianism. Although the Hindu idea of the Kali Yuga does purport it to be a time of spiritual and moral degeneration it does not mention specific political ideologies.

According to the Puranic sources, the Kali Yuga began on February 18th, 3102 BCE with the departure of the Avatar, Krishna from the world. The sources also suggest it will be a long wait for the Kali Yuga to come to an end. It is not scheduled to do so until the year 428,899 CE.

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A lot of angry and frightened civil libertarians (many of whom I admire ) were rattled last week by the use of urgency to pass the traffic light vaccination passport scheme.

On any other day of the week, I would be alongside them demanding to know what the bloody hell was going on too, but this aint one of them.

Firstly the entire breathless denunciation of what Labour did had a whiff of the hysterical about it from people who were making arguments of due process which seemed to miss the urgency of the reality.

There is a pandemic going on! Urgency to ram through urgent law in a truncated democratic process is what is required!

We have urgency powers for issues of immense urgency! We are looking at limiting peoples liberty and that demands oversight and obligations WHICH HAVE BEEN BUILT INTO THE LEGISLATION!

This is not the same as when Key misused urgency to ram through the mass surveillance powers! This legislation must be voted back in using the basic majority of Parliament every few months while there is a sunset clause built into the law that removes all these powers altogether once the pandemic is over!

This is hardly the civil liberties crushing Nazi Germany framework its being sold as.

Of course Government should be challenged every day over its use of power over us but this traffic light system is a hurried response to an ongoing public health emergency of course there will be stupid anomalies and counter productive outcomes because of the haste and those will be cleaned up in whatever omnibus package is passed to do that, but all in all this is a Government moving as fast as it can to treat a novel virus in the middle of a pandemic.

There are legitimate reasons to use urgency a fucking plague is one of them!

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Dear panicking civil libertarians isn't a pandemic the reason you have urgency? - thedailyblog.co.nz

Charlie Harper| Savannah Morning News

Stores ransacked in NYC shopping district

Early Monday morning in Manhattan's Soho neighborhood, mobs of people rampaged down the sidewalks, smashing into numerous luxury shops to steal merchandise. (June 1)

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This is a column by Charlie Harper,an Atlanta-based public policy expert and a longtime contributor.

Five or so years ago I attended a one-day session in Washington DC hosted by FreedomWorks. The libertarian leaning conservative advocacy group brought together a couple dozen writers and grassroots leaders to discuss the topic of criminal justice reform.

What still strikes me most about the day was the uniqueness of the afternoon session. We left the FreedomWorks conference room and went down the street to the offices of the Center for American Progress. CAP can be considered about as far left down the spectrum as FreedomWorks is on the right.

It wasnt that long ago that working across the ideological divide on issues was considered common. It actually still happens regularly, in Washington, Atlanta, and in local counties and cities. Its how routine issues and even occasionally some much bigger problems get solved.

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Where it doesnt happen is on cable news and in other forms of entertainment that mask as parts of the political process. Too many have learned that enraging the base makes for a good business model.

The common ground the members of the left and right found that day on criminal justice reform was that we had to understand that violent criminals needed to be punished, but those committing singular minor offenses needed a full pathway back into American citizenship and worker productivity.

It just so happened at that time that Georgia had been a leader in this issue for several years, allowing me to engage in translating talking points between the left and the right. It continues to surprise many that a bright red state had taken the lead when tough on crime slogans are a better sell to the GOP base.

Unfortunately, too many running with the banner of criminal justice reform have continued to expand their efforts without remembering the basic compact that violent criminals must be held accountable and society must be protected from them. Municipalities have begun eliminating bail bonds and have created revolving doors at our police stations and our courts.

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Last week an organized ring of approximately 80 people descended on a Nordstrom store in Walnut Creek California, an upscale suburb of San Francisco. Two store employees were maced while a flash mob looting occurred.

I thought this was a one-off California kind of thing until I watched the CEO of Best Buy detail her quarterly earnings report on CNBC a few days later. Despite beating estimates for both revenue and profit, the stock got hammered after releasing earnings because margins were squeezed. The reason for the increasing cost of doing business that stood out was shrink, or loss of inventory. The CEO sounded the alarm that across retail, organized mobs that steal inventory are a problem both for store owners as well as increasing anxiety among store employees.

Its easy to see that justice delayed, as it was by the original D.A. in the Ahmaud Arbery case, causes a loss in faith in the judicial system. It should be just as plain to see that those who are supposed to be enforcing laws on theft but ignore them, and judges that routinely establish bail policies equivalent to a revolving door at the courthouse are doing the same.

Last week Darrel Brooks fled a domestic dispute and killed at least six people during a Christmas parade in Waukesha Wisconsin. He had been set free on bail just days earlier facing five counts including battery and domestic abuse. The D.A. in his case called the bail recommendation inappropriately low.

There are still many of us considered on the conservative side of the political spectrum willing to fight for criminal justice reform. For that discussion to have any hope of continuing, were going to need to hear more voices demanding that laws on the books actually be enforced, and the concept of justice include holding those who commit violent crimes be held accountable.

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Justice system reform is a wedge partisan issue. It doesn't have to be. - Savannah Morning News

Maybe the Recall Dunleavy people saw the writing on the wall when they laid down their cannons this past summer and quit: Gov. Mike Dunleavy is, in fact, popular.

Dunleavy is the 16th most popular governor among the 50 states, according to Morning Consult, a survey firm that seasonally ranks the popularity of elected officials.

Dunleavy ranked higher than Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a Democrat who recently beat a recall attempt at the ballot box. Dunleavy also ranked higher than Gov. Brad Little, of Idaho, a Republican who is being challenged for governor by his own Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin in the May, 2022 primary.

At 57% approval rating, Dunleavy is just one point below South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem in the survey.

The most popular governor in the survey was Gov. Phil Scott, a Republican serving in Vermont, who has a 79% approval.

Of the top 20 governors in the approval rankings, 15 are Republicans, while five are Democrats.

Dunleavy, who faced a recall campaign that started only three months after he took office, has seen his approval rating go up and down and up again. In the fourth quarter of 2019, Morning Consult had him at a dead even, with 42% approving, and 42% disapproving of him, and he was ranked 9 among all 50 governors for popularity. At that same time, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a 58% approval rating.

Morning Consult successfully predicted the free-fall of former Gov. Bill Walker in 2018. The polling firm named him the least popular governor running for re-election in 2018, with net approval of -26%. He ended up with just 2 percent of the vote 5,757 Alaskan voters to Dunleavys 51.4% or 145,631 votes.

Walker posted the largest net slide in approval of any governor in the fourth quarter, falling 19 points compared to the previous quarter, the survey firm reported.

In this final quarter of 2021, a reputable Alaska survey firm showed the same results as Morning Consult did for Dunleavy, who will face off against non-party candidate Walker, Democrat Les Gara, and Libertarian Joe Miller, who is set to announce his candidacy on Monday morning.

Republican DeSantis, although much lauded by conservatives around the country this year for his battle with President Joe Biden, has a 52% approval in his state, and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is at 50%.

The least popular governor in the country is Oregon Democrat Kate Brown, who has a 43% approval rating. That is up slightly from the fourth quarter of 2019, when 37% of Oregonians approved of her.

Read the analysis at this link.

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Poll: Dunleavy ranks high in popularity, compared to all other governors - Must Read Alaska