I wrote yesterday about how nextdoor.com is ethnically cleansing its site. They’re cracking down on even the most moderately conservative content, as they fall ever more inexorably into the most extreme wokeism.

In his novels “Brave New World and “1984,” George Orwell described how tyrannical governments often begin and then cement their crackdown on freedom by controlling the public use of language. For example, Newspeak—the official language in “1984,” as formulated by the ruling Ingsoc, or English Socialism, regime—made sure that only Ingsoc-approved words could be used to express thoughts. Ingsoc’s leaders believed that the way for them to hold power forever was to destroy free thinking. As Orwell himself pointed out, the aspiration of the dictatorship was “to diminish the range of thought.”

A municipality that has the capacity, but not the will, to govern is not a government at all, but an anarchy, a cipher, a squalid waste of the taxpayers’ money. Such is the city of Berkeley which, yesterday, decided to do nothing to stop the anarchists from halting all construction at People’s Park.

When I heard about the latest brouhaha at People’s Park, I thought, Here we go again. I’ve been here for 44 years and there always have been periodic riots there. Even before I arrived, People’s Park was a flash point between protesters and cops. I can say little about those early days, but this time, it’s hard for me to see the current conflict aside from my experiences of what is happening with homelessness in Oakland.

CBS News reports that Oakland City Administrator Ed Reiskin reached out to Susan Muranishi, Alameda County’s top executive, asking permission for Oakland to send its homeless population to the Alameda County Fairgrounds, in Pleasanton, “where residents dwelling in recreational vehicles and tents could reside.”