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Facebook post by Micaela (my daughter) on the day after the election
mudpuppy:
The problem is all that rambling sounds compassionate but in the real world it leads to more misery not less.
Sentiment is worth less than zero when it meets the hard edge of human nature. There is for instance no compassion in patronizingly feeling sympathy for the fear of the mother of a black child at the hands of the police when he is at least 1,000 times as likely to be killed by another black child.
After 50 years of a war on poverty based on the concept of white privilege the poverty rate is the same and the inner cities are if anything worse.
The thing that is killing blacks more than anything is white liberals working out their guilt complexes on them regardless of the consequences.
People die by the thousands due to the policies that have torn their neighborhoods and families apart and you worry that sarcasm isn't appropriate when people suggest doubling down on these murderous policies that will kill and maim thousands more and condemn another generation or two to government dependency and the hopelessness that goes with it.
Under segregation black families were nearly as intact as whites and black teenage unemployment was actually lower than whites. Now, segregation was awful but for the black underclass the last fifty or sixty years of left wing government paternalism has been vastly worse in almost every single category that can be measured. That takes some doing.
So pardon my anger but you're damn right I'm mad when the people who constructed this catastrophe for the most vulnerable members of society ignore what they've wrought and prattle on about checking my privilege when they apparently long ago checked their brains in order to preen about how much they care about the lives they've destroyed. Toss in the almost unspeakable conceit of calling those who oppose what they've done racists and it seems to me the anger is rather more muted than it should be.
Leftism not only means never having to say you're sorry, it provides one with the moral certitude to expect thanks from the ones you should be saying sorry to.
I'm not sure why those on the left side of the spectrum are so unhappy. You won. You told us drugs are fun and the most vulnerable believed you and now swim in a sea of narcotics and opiods. You told us we needed a sexual revolution and that marriage was old fashioned and that we should pay mothers without husbands. We now have a legitimacy rate approaching single digits, abortions vastly disproportionately hitting blacks, roving bands of fatherless boys killing each other and almost total devastation of black inner city families. You told us we needed open borders and now the same pathologies are hitting Hispanic neighborhoods and illegal aliens are soaking up the entry level jobs black youth used to use to get a foot on the ladder. You told us blacks lagged because of whitey's racism and privilege and so black youth don't even try anymore because somebody owes them an "A" and a job or the dole.
You told us progressive policies were what were needed and after decades of almost complete progressive rule of every major city the poor black population is in worse shape than before. You told us black criminals were really victims and we went soft on crime and the crime rate soared. Who were the victims? White professors and politicians who told them criminals were really victims? No their black neighbors were the overwhelming victims of the crime wave. Thank God common sense prevailed and the crime rate was brought down, but now the left whines about "mass incarceration" and if they have their way they and the BLM crowd mouthing the same platitudes will unleash another crime wave on the poor black neighbors of the thugs the left wants freed.
Congratulations. The left won.
That's why people are so ticked off: when the left wins everybody else loses.
mud
mudpuppy:
BTW;
ig·no·ra·mus (ĭg′nə-rā′məs) n.
An ignorant person.
I didn't miss the sympathy. I found it underwhelming when she said we are ignorant.
How'd you miss the insult? More importantly why did you approvingly repeat it?
We're not ignorant and the vast majority of us are not any of the things the left accuses us of so they don't have to debate ideas; a debate they invariably lose.
We're sick of the arrogant, casual insults and the supercilious condescension and projection by people who are routinely wrong and who are locked into a rigid ideology that prevents their admission they're wrong but instead prompts them to become ever more condescending and averse to debating ideas.
There are a few relatively gentle souls like you but unfortunately you are, in my experience, more the exception than the rule.
mud
lighter:
Mud:
Does Trump never remind you of your brother or his way of operating in the world?
I was struck hard by similarities between my husband and Trump during the election.
Think for a moment .....Any simarity at all?
Lighter
mudpuppy:
Trump and my brother are dissimilar in ways too numerous to count and similar in very few and those are superficial. In fact I suspect a neutral third party with their perspective not ensnared in politics would almost certainly note that my dear brother shares many, many more personality traits with the 44th president rather than the 45th.
Regardless, personalities are irrelevant to good policy and a political philosophy that sustains life, liberty and property and those are the things that interest me in the political realm, not how somebody feels or makes other people feel.
Feelings are for the Hallmark Channel. Thought, experience, reason and the basic morality that government's only legitimate purposes are to protect the country from foreign threats and from one citizen harming another are for political philosophy.
mud
lighter:
Mud:
If you leave out party politics, are you saying that your brother shares the moral fiber and character of #44, and not with #45?
Lighter
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