The woke miracle: how basic truths became extremism. By Flopping Aces.
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization … crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites … and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
- Lock up predators? Cruel.
- Deport illegals? Hateful.
- End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
- Punish fraud? Complicated.
- Restore merit? Problematic.
- Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis. Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel. Consequences.
Follow the money. So long as those on team big government get lots of taxpayer-funded good jobs, rather than having to provide goods and services for the rest of us at prices we are willing to pay. It’s a moral thing: do you get paid via coercion (government, NGO, or welfare, by and large) or voluntarily (private industry, by and large)?
For the work, a big part of the attraction is replacing merit with “equity,” thereby giving the less able a bigger share, and even running the place.
Commenters:
How did this happen? Politicians decided that staying in power and looting the treasury was their primary purpose. Forget about governing “by and for the people”. It became buying votes to insure they stayed in power and using the tax payers hard earned income to make themselves wealthy. Everything became “it’s government money” as if someone didn’t have to work for that money to be spent.
The amount of fraud that has been uncovered is truly astronomical. It’s so bad that it’s really beyond belief for some. How can those here illegally manage to scam the system for hundreds of millions, for years, without being caught? Think about it. If you have $10 million and you spend $1000 per day, the money won’t run out for 27 years. We are finding out that there are illegal scammers that stole hundreds of millions! HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS! And the politicians that represent these districts are defending the fraudsters! What does that imply? Maybe that they’re in on the scam? And not ONE politician has been arrested. Not one! …
Look at this quote from John Tooby , an evolutionary psychologist. He explains why the “with-it” crowd constantly flips the meaning of truth and beauty, among other things, into distorted — sometimes opposite — versions of their plain meaning.
That soft justice, replacing competition and merit with “equity”, and the developing longhouse generally, all sounds a bit female, doesn’t it?