Posted on 07/18/2021 4:48:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Democrats embrace leftist mobs with one aim: power.
Forty years ago there was a great show on NBC called Hill Street Blues. It was an early player in the gritty police drama genre, à la The Wire or Bosch.
The ensemble show was led by Daniel J. Travanti playing Capt. Frank Furillo and his love interest, the stunning Veronica Hamel as public defender Joyce Davenport.
In one episode, the police had arrested a suspect for a particularly heinous crime and Davenport was his attorney. There was a giant mob in front of the jail demanding the suspect’s head. Furillo knew the suspect was guilty but he refused to confess.
In order to “encourage” the suspect to confess, Furillo told Davenport that her client was being released. The suspect, knowing that if he walked out that door he would be set upon by the frothing crowd, decided to confess. Davenport was furious so we expect Furillo might have been sleeping on the couch that night…
That episode was an example of mob rule, albeit one orchestrated by government. The more common form or mob rule is what happened down in North Carolina some weeks ago when the University of North Carolina gave in to the literal mob outside their doors and offered Nikole Hannah-Jones tenure as a professor. The university had offered the writer of the insidious 1619 Project a five-year contract, and she accepted. Soon, however, Hannah-Jones decided that such a contract demonstrated UNC’s racism and soon the university was overrun by a mob demanding she be granted tenure. And as the cowards that university administrators typically are, they complied and offered her tenure. Something happened on the way to their final capitulation… after the offer of tenure that Hannah-Jones had demanded came through, she decided she she’d rather not.
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I expect the next big wave of mob violence to be orchestrated prior to the 2022 elections and even more before 2024.
I thought they refused to grant her tenure, and she went off to Howard University. Did I miss something?
No you didn’t. It was a setup to make the UNC board to look like idiots and it worked.
I suspect that she didn’t meet the requirements for the tenure ranking, so she ranted about how the system treated her unfairly, citing “racism” to denounce UNC and whip up support for herself.
John Adams, the architect of the U.S. Constitution, wrote that the tyranny of the majority can be more oppressive than the tyranny of a despot.
Bkmk
you mean “one of the architects?”
Elias Cannetti talked about “Crowds and Power”
I always thought a crowd was appealing to misfit losers who can’t BE individuals and can’t TOLERATE indivuduality in others. He said:
“…The crowd needs a direction. It is in movement and it moves towards a goal. The direction, which is common to all its members, strengthens the feeling of equality. A goal outside the individual members and common to all of them drives underground all the private differing goals which are fatal to the crowd as such. It is for the sake of this … when no-one is greater or better than another, that people become a crowd…Direction is essential for the continuing existence of the crowd. Its constant fear of disintegration means that it will accept any goal. A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal….”
Anacyclosis says ANY amount of democracy always devolves into ochlocracy.
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