Posted on 12/07/2021 8:03:00 AM PST by karpov
After a thorough investigation, the sleuths in the Biden administration have identified a suspect in the smash-and-grab shoplifting spree that has besieged California retailers and terrorized residents of late.
The likely villain is two years old, travels at will across the country, and has a vicious spike protein that has caused pain and suffering to millions of people.
That’s right. It’s the coronavirus.
Asked last week at a press briefing whether the pandemic was to blame for the surge in crime, as President Biden has suggested, the White House press secretary Jen Psaki declared that, yes, the virus is “a root cause in a lot of communities.”
There it is. That old progressive standby: the “root cause,” the all-encompassing absolution that simultaneously strips criminals of agency and Democratic politicians of responsibility for the consequences of their policies.
“It was the virus that made me do it, your honor. I was an honest, law-abiding citizen, doing my part to fight systemic racism and climate injustice, when all of a sudden I developed a high fever and lost my sense of smell. Next thing I knew, I was pulling $25,000 Louis Vuitton purses out of display cases downtown. I can’t make bail but if you’ll let me go free, I’ll do my best to hunt down this vicious virus and help make our streets safe again.”
It’s easy to ridicule the mindset that seems unable or unwilling to understand the distinction between proper redress of our various social pathologies and the legal and moral obligations of personal responsibility. But this latest manifestation of the grip it has on our ruling class is a disturbing reminder of how far progressive ideology has propelled the country toward social disintegration.
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Is Brandon talking about the same crime wave that AOC says doesn’t exist?
Here ya go: https://archive.md/6P7VT
They forgot to mention Climate Change, White Supremacy, and Donald Trump.
They’re not blaming President Trump???
sure it wasn’t gloBULL warming?
So all that free money we paid people was for naught
Doesn’t the vaccine fix all this?
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