Cosmic Injustice

amgreatness.com ^ | 8/18/2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

[bitt]

Politicians ignore felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe.

ne of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority. These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.

Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral fides—even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city’s residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. Or is the “Bloomberg syndrome” worse than that—in the sense that sounding saintly in theory psychologically compensates for being powerless in fact? Or is it a fashion tic of the privileged to show abstract empathy?

In the last years of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governorship, Arnold more or less gave up on the existential crises of illegal immigration, sanctuary cities, soaring taxes, water shortages, decrepit roads and bridges, homelessness, plummeting public school performance, and a huge exodus out of state of middle-class Californians.

[bitt]

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[AndyJackson]

Or is it a fashion tic of the privileged to show abstract empathy?

Knowing that the hoi polloi cannot get past the guard in the lobby 53 stories below.

[exDemMom]

Or is the “Bloomberg syndrome” worse than that—in the sense that sounding saintly in theory psychologically compensates for being powerless in fact?

A lot of that goes on in politics. Government workers have to abide by some strict ethics laws and take all kinds of training to keep us moral and ethical, while the politicians who impose these rules on us commit egregious acts of corruption. In their minds, their behavior is excusable because they keep the peons in line.

[Pontiac]

What was lacking in the recent Democratic debates were concrete answers to real problems—as opposed to candidates’ nonstop cosmic virtue signaling. It is easy to blast “white supremacy” and “the gun culture” from a rostrum. But no one on stage seemed to care about the great challenge of our age, the inner-city carnage that takes thousands of young African-American lives each year. The inner-city murdering is tragically almost exclusively a black-on-black phenomenon (even rare interracial homicides are disproportionally committed by African-Americans) that occurs in progressive-run cities with strict gun control laws.

All true!

But, it is racist to notice.

And it is even more racist to mention that all of these cities are governed by Democrats. Most of them for uninterrupted decades.

If you are not a racist you will say that shooting people with guns is a White Nationalist thing. Don’t cha no.

[Pontiac]

When leaders virtue signal about global or cosmic sin, it is often proof they have no willingness or power to address any concrete crisis.

First of all, a real crisis is rare. Sure, every city and state has issues that need to be addressed but real crisis are few and far between

When someone calls inner city violence a crisis they are grandstanding for political gain. Yes it is an issue that needs to be dealt with but those claiming it is a crisis are the last people that are likely to do what needs to be done because they are probably the same people that are calling cops racist murderers.