War and Crime: Chickens Coming Home to Roost

For at least fifty years, leftists in America have done their best to weaken America so it wouldn’t be able to engage in wars abroad, because engaging in such wars has meant the killing of lots of innocent people. They protested against every war they could, they imposed ridiculous rules on the armed forces, and they slammed every American they could with rhetoric about how awful America was and is (imperialist, racist, etc.). They did all of this in the belief, apparently, that the world would be a much better place if America were simply taken out of the equation. That is, of course, ridiculous. Obviously, power-seeking foreigners were going to rush in to fill a power vacuum, but leftists never thought about that possibility.

But that day is pretty close to being here. In fact, plenty of people thought it arrived last summer with the hopelessly inept withdrawal from Afghanistan, and still others thought it happened earlier. But anyway, the point is that Russia is threatening Ukraine, and of course China is threatening Taiwan. And then there is Iran, which is always threatening Israel.

It would be Biden’s worst day possible if all three of those conflicts erupted on the same day. It would be only slightly less awful if they were all going on at the same time, even if they didn’t erupt on the same day.

Now regarding Ukraine, there has been a lot of discussion about what we should do, but the first question to be asked is whether we can actually do anything. Are our armed forces capable of doing much of anything other than worrying about the correct use of pronouns? We are a society, after all, that has declared masculinity toxic, thanks to our leftists, and since our armed forces are now under the control of the left, we can’t really expect them to perform the way they would have performed when none of this rot was infesting everything (back in the 1950s, say).

Not bothering to think about this, a majority of Democrats, it appears, wants to send troops to the Ukraine. I couldn’t find the latest poll, but here is one from last summer. So, the point is that people who have put so much effort into criticizing America and its use of power abroad are now willing to use that same power, which they have done their best to destroy, to stop someone against whom they have what is probably an imaginary grudge (though I don’t want to get into that).

I wish them luck, but they’ll probably fail miserably. Let me add that we likely now live in a more dangerous world, and the people who are most in danger are the woke. Not many outside of the West respect them, and if we come to be dominated by Putin, for example, they may find their days of dominance in America coming to an end.

As for crime, I’m sure the many people demanding that the police be defunded were never thinking that they themselves would be victims of the chaos that would obviously ensue. In my hometown of Minneapolis, even previously safe areas have now seen carjackings, and in fact even inner-ring suburbs have seen them. I grew up in Minneapolis across the street from Edina, and even it is no longer completely safe. Edina was for a long time considered the most prestigious of suburbs, even though there were other suburbs that were richer. (I had a friend who, whenever he said the name “Edina,” would tilt his head back, use a finger to push up the tip of his nose, and then utter the name “Edina” in a kind of strained whisper, as though he were a British aristocrat.) For Edina to now be at the mercy of carjackers is a very sad decline.

As for the rest of the country, I’m sure most have seen the depressing pictures showing trains in Los Angeles whose contents have been looted. It’s like something you’d see in Latin America or Africa, yet it has been allowed to happen here.

Now for the people who support this kind of thing, this is justified because it counts as reparations. However, it is no longer limited just to theft. In recent days, three women have been murdered by members of the privileged race, and two of the three were not white. One was Asian (the one who was pushed onto the subway tracks), and one was Hispanic (here). The third was white, but apparently supported defunding the police (here). So, all of them are likely to have been Dems who supported the Dems’ police-defunding policy. And it came back to destroy them.

Amazingly, there are still Dems who support these policies.

Comments

[Charles N. Steele]

I was just talking with an attorney who plans on moving his family away from their upscale Denver suburb. He told me crime rates are soaring, and the response of his leftist neighbors is that wealthy victims are to blame. Criminals are not responsible for their own behavior, victims are.

Left is suicidal and insane.

[John Pepple]

I'd like to think that the numbers who continue to believe that are decreasing.

[Harland]

Look, there's a difference between the America-hating left and the corporate Democrats. The latter are neoliberal globalists who want to use US power to conquer the world like they're playing a game of Risk. Afterwards they will disband national governments and have a global governance, inescapable and whose authority is supreme.

The America-hating left just wants to destroy America, white people, and Western culture (in any order) because they identify those with everything bad in the world. (where "bad" means "successfully resisting Marxism and the mass murders they planned afterwards")

Two totally different factions and this post confuses the two. Go read https://hexbear.net/ for the America-hating left's views on just about everything. They hate the corporate Democrats more than the right does.

[John Pepple]

Well, Harland, if a war breaks out over Ukraine, and Biden gets the U.S. involved, will these America-haters have a protest march? I'm guessing they won't. They haven't protested against a Democratic president since Johnson was in office.