Kim Foxx, Jussie Smollett, and the Democrats' belief in narrative-based politics

American Thinker ^ | March 29, 2019 | Thomas Lifson

[detective]

Cook County state's attorney Kim Foxx inadvertently gave away the game — what's really behind the bizarre dropping of charges and sealing of court records of the slam-dunk case put together by Chicago police on Jussie Smollett's fake hate crime report — when she explained to two reporters for Chicago public radio station WBEZ in an interview:

I don't believe it is in the interest of the people of Cook County to engage in a narrative that is anything other than all of us working collectively for the public safety of the people of Cook County.

The dominant factions of the Democrats now believe that truth and facts matter not at all if a convincing narrative can be constructed and sold to the public. With a near monopoly on mass media and entertainment, fantasies can be sold to the public, and a critical mass can be persuaded to embrace the fiction. Postmodernism, the pernicious doctrine that there is no truth, only narratives, has moved beyond the campus into the power structure of the Left. The Democrats dominate Hollywood, and now Hollywood — the world capital of creating and selling fictional narratives (and the world in which Jussie Smollett lives) — dominates the Democrats, or at least the rising new-guard social justice warrior forces that are rapidly taking over the party.

[humblegunner]

Freepers who tirelessly attack citizen journalists

Yay Bloggers.

[Alberta's Child]

Lifson is right on target here. I trace all of this idiocy back to one quote that completely undermines our entire legal system:

"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life." -- Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (29 June 1992); majority opinion co-authored by Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Sandra O’Connor

Our political/legal landscape right now is dominated by the natural extension of this silly, meaningless crap. Juicy Smellitt defined "his own concept of existence" as one where he was the victim of a racially-motivated bias attack. Whether it really happened or not was of no consequence at all -- either to himself, to his supporters, or (apparently) to the U.S. Supreme Court.

I can see this whole nation and its entire social order unraveling very, very quickly.

[IC Ken]

re> She has the face of a dog.

Didn't she star in Planets of the Apes?

[TBP]

The narrative is all. If the facts contradict the narrative, then the facts lie.

[M Kehoe]

They also believe in narrative based justice.

5.56mm

[ViLaLuz]