Posted on 03/07/2021 5:34:27 AM PST by karpov
American liberalism is in a strong position to dominate cultural and political life in the United States for the near future, with Joe Biden in the White House and the Democratic Party in control of both houses of Congress. The cultural and media elites are, for now, united in their conviction that they have saved democracy and that the future is theirs. And yet, a serious challenge to this new liberal ascendancy could be coming, one similar in kind to the circumstances that knocked liberalism back on its heels in the 1960s—its inability to address or mitigate an increase in crime, particularly violent crime, and arrest the decline of civic order. In their eagerness to remake the criminal-justice system, defund police, and abolish prisons, today’s liberal leaders and activists appear to have forgotten the lessons of a previous era—and like their 1960s forebearers, prefer to denounce opponents of their agenda and forestall the difficult conversations about tradeoffs rather than confront the very real anxieties and fears many Americans are expressing about safety and disorder.
To understand the threat these ideas pose to the rosy Democratic future, we need to take a hard look at the overcast American past.
When crime began its decades-long upward spiral in the 1960s, liberalism’s leading proponents seemed unable or unwilling to address the problem. Some ignored it; others claimed the issue was not about crime but about the need for more expansive social-welfare programs; and still others actively denounced citizens’ demands for law and order as motivated by racism.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Don’t need to read the article to know where it’s going. They’re hell bent on not repeating the mistakes of their forbears and will ensure fascism takes root and thrives in America.
These pukes do not live amongst the average person in America, they live with personal security in gated secured communities protected from the irresponsible deliberate sick decisions they make for us all.
Stolengrad, DC - exactly, with IRON CURTAIN and Harris-Pelosi-”Biden”-military junta (who is that guy, Honore?)
The “most transparent administration of all” . . . as long as you do not look, ask, pry, inquire, seek, request, petition, detect, nor “just barge in.”
While crime rises in every Democrat run city, the other pols are enacting gun laws to take away the rights of the citizen to defend themselves.
Sixties liberals were attempting to 'do good & change the world'... Today's progressives are attempting to start a race war and use it as an excuse to install totalitarian commie thugs.
“These pukes do not live amongst the average person in America...”
True but the “average” American put them there.
Notice how the elites live behind walls with security, as
they support anarchy in the streets, and seek to disarm us...
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