Posted on 10/17/2021 2:54:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Empathy is an important human emotion, but sometimes people keep repeating the same stupid mistakes that make it nearly impossible to continue to give a damn about them. Someone suffering severe headaches, for example, can cause a serious empathetic response from people, but that goes away quickly, and likely forever, if you discover that person continually hits themselves in the head with two-by-four. There comes a certain point when any emotion – empathy, sympathy, whatever – becomes counterproductive. When it comes to Democrat voter groups, I’m long past that point.
The odds of you knowing someone who is or was self-destructive are pretty high. I’ve known plenty – people who drink too much, someone who smokes too much, steals, cheats, whatever – hell, I’ve been many of those things when I was younger too. People grow out of it or become consumed by it, very few maintain it throughout their lives. But sometimes, it’s a mentality passed on from generation to generation. That’s how I view people who vote for Democrats in major cities across the country.
In college, I lived in Dearborn, Michigan. Where I lived was represented in Congress by John Dingell. He represented the district since the Earth cooled. First elected in 1955, he finally retired in 2015. Before him, that district was represented by John Dingell Sr., from 1933 till 1955. Upon Dingell Jr.’s retirement, the district was represented by Debbie Dingell, John’s widow. When John Jr. was contemplating retirement, all the talk was about who would replace him: his wife, or his son Christopher, because all that matters is that last name, not ability, character, anything. So when Debbie leaves…
Some of the district isn’t bad, some of it is. But in all of it you can see the remnants of what once was, back when Detroit was the economic engine of the country. Democrats had power in the region that whole time, having a monopoly on the Mayor’s office starting in January 1962. The shell of what remains should serve as a reminder of the failures of unfettered liberal policies, and maybe it does…but it hasn’t made a difference in anyone’s voting habits.
No level of crime, no spike in violence or depth of economic depression has shaken the loyalties of Detroit voters from their Democrat masters. The complete and generational failure of the education system hasn’t done a damn thing either. Nothing will.
It’s not just Detroit, where beautiful skyscrapers sit empty, vacant and rotting, where this loyalty exists. Name a major city and you find the same thing. You’d be hard-pressed to walk a mile in San Francisco without stepping on half a dozen used syringes and in several dozen piles of human waste, yet not a single elected Democrat in the city fear anyone taking their job outside of the rare primary challenge.
Prosecutors are elected across the country on the promise that they will not enforce most of the laws on the books, expressly not he job of a prosecutor, yet they will win reelection easily. In Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner has overseen a massive spike in crime, particularly violent crime, and he just won his primary in a walk.
Meanwhile, the Philadelphia City Council just voted to “ban” pretty much all traffic stops, short of running over pedestrians. Why? In the name of “racial justice,” of course.
As these cities continue to fall apart, teetering on collapse, it’s tempting to feel badly for the residents. I don’t. I used to, I just can’t anymore.
They vote for this, they elect these idiots who implement these asinine plans and policies. New York City was once like them, and is well on its way to being again. But in between, there was a respite; an anomaly where things were turned around. It was the election of a Republican, Rudy Giuliani, that turned the city around. You’d think other cities and states would learn from this, but you’d be wrong.
Virginia has the chance to elect a Republican next month, but they’ll likely return a Democrat hack to the Governor’s mansion. They’re relatively insulated from the economic damage of other liberal states because the federal government funds so many of its residents, but the suffering of those people in non-economic ways will continue and grow. The school system, for example, will continue to make sure students are well-versed in proper pronoun use, even if they suck at reading and math.
I don’t care anymore. When someone punches a wall and breaks their hand, as I’ve done, you don’t feel sorry for them because they stupidly did it to themselves. When someone’s neighborhood deteriorates or crime spikes as property values collapse, remember they voted for it. As long as they do that, who gives a damn how much suffering they inflict on themselves?
The problem is that many of them refuse to stay and live with what they voted for just as they steadfastly refuse to learn one damned thing. They move to YOUR neighborhood/city/state and then set about turning it into exactly the same kind of hellhole they just left.
We need to wall these people in. Kind of like rubbing a puppy’s nose in his own crap, that is the only way they will learn not to do it again.
We have those who work in the private sector, versus those who live off government money. The latter includes welfare recipients, government employees, recipients of government Grant’s, etc. The “government money” people only care about getting more government money, and minimizing actual effective oversight.
I also wondered why Democrats keep getting elected and then 2020 happened.
Voter fraud is the only reasonable answer.
Blue areas and even entire states are getting what they deserve. Democrats are even confident enough that they have decided they no longer need their favorite RINO useful idiot and eliminated his District. I saw an article about that, “Democrats Have Some Really Bad News for Fierce Trump Critic Adam Kinzinger”, and you can give that a look at Townhall. When you lay down with communist Democrats you wake up with communist fleas, and Adam is infested. The Wuhan and 2020 election theft will have long reaching effects as an entire generation grows up without freedoms we took for granted...like breathing normally.
No like the democRATs they are they flee the sinking ship they created. And most are going to red states and areas to ruin them in the same manner. Trump should have finished that damn wall and run it right up the interior borders of CA, OR and WA too.
Zero reason for people who were locked down, striped of their jobs and mandated to death to go vote for their blue oppressors. Of course it was election fraud.
Exactly right. Your last line nailed it.
Biden totally lacks any empathy.
See : The southern Border,
human trafficking,
drug trafficing by the Mexifornia Cartels
the Afghanistan withdrawal,
Covid lock downs,
financial and surveillance concerns,
resistance to vaccines,
etc.., etc.
All democrat taliban voters are the enemy, folks. Yes, it has come to that.
A lack of empathy is a primary characteristic of sociopaths. (see tagline)
Well said.
As these cities continue to fall apart, teetering on collapse, it’s tempting to feel badly for the residents
If they don’t fight, enjoy! we will not fight for you
That is just effing outrageous but the voters put them in.....
In Minneapolis we've had several Black children shot and killed by, wait for it, Black people.
Yet who do they march against demanding an end to the shootings? White people.
This after the very public lynching of a White cop and the defunding of the police force.
You can't fix stupid.
Sometimes the only way for people to learn is to let them experience the consequences of their actions. Most young kids are like that.
CA voted to keep the idiot as governor, let them experience the high gas prices, continuous lockdowns, and onerous rules while the rest of us enjoy our freedoms. After all, very few who have lived under socialism would want to do it again.
There is a theme in movies where there is a woman alone in a farmhouse in the middle of raging storm. The power goes out. She lights a candle. She hears an un-godly sound coming from the barn. What does she do? She heads for the barn in the midst of the storm. Candle goes out.
At this point, I’m rooting for whatever it is in the barn that is about to eat her.
Stupid people doing the same stupid things: Dr. Laura Show, Dave Ramsey Show, Judge Judy Show. Can’t bare to watch.
Democracy is a system where half the people have an IQ below 100—and they vote.
What could possibly go wrong?
(Then add voter fraud for a little icing on the cake...)
It is amazing we kept our liberties for as long as we did...
Imho that was due to political leaders who kept their greed in check and made some effort to keep the country civilized.
Those leaders are rare these days.
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