Oh, Leftists care about crime alright. They sure do.
Just not in the same way Conservatives do.
Leftists see crime as a tool to exact change.
Conservatives see crime as something to be punished and prevented.
“Leftists see crime as a tool to exact change.”
Solzhenitsyn made a similar observation about the ‘blatnye’ or career criminals in the labor camps of the gulag.
The Party viewed them as class allies to destroy the political prisoners whom they were given licence to oppress because they shared the Party’s attitude toward private property.
The thieves in return referred to Stalin as ‘the Great Day Thief’.