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Alex Lekas's avatar

There should be no ideological tug of war at all. That there is highlights how poorly served citizens are by their own govts. Ironically, it's the most vulnerable who are most affected as the numbers in city after city show. While DAs posture and preen, real people are being killed, robbed, carjacked, assaulted, and raped. Tell the minority victims what a great service is being done by prosecutors who refuse to prosecute. It's easy to stand on an ideological hill where there is zero chance of you dying on it.

While criminologists are apparently struggling to find a consensus for explaining the spike in crime, regular people have figured it out. Because it's not that hard of a question to answer. You will always, always, always get more of what you allow, encourage, subsidize, or tolerate. When repeat offenders are released almost immediately, odds are better than good that they will commit another crime, and that sorry scenario has played out time and again in one city after another. And when you demonize cops and sanctify criminals, you will start to lose officers and struggle mightily to find new ones. This played in out Memphis, where the black cops killed the black civilian in a scene that looked more like gang warfare than law enforcement.

Just how many people have to die to appease the gods of wokeness? We've gone from locking people up for non-violent petty crimes - Kamala Harris' reign as AG in California comes to mind - to violent criminals being set loose before the ink on their booking is dry. People do realize that, at some point, citizens will act where cops won't, right? There have been a few isolated incidents within the Chicago transit system. We just have not yet had the modern-day Bernard Goetz moment, but all roads lead to one. Then what? We gonna blame metal objects again? We gonna whine about vigilante justice?

Govt has no more fundamental role than public safety. Everything else trails in the distance. When people have a sense that the criminal holds a higher status than the law-abiding, you don't have a civil society any more. The ideological capture of the people who happen to run most of the big cities is playing out in real time, with devastating consequences and, ironically, the marginalized communities being among the biggest victims.

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Hansenius's avatar

Why does Glenn think we are at or past peak woke? A cartoonist was just canceled for asking questions about a national survey poll results two speakers were attacked at universities this last week and a large city in the US just gave council support to giving black people 5 million in lump sum reoperations despite being a city that had no history of black slavery. Meanwhile across the Federal agencies and many state and corporate institutions the DEI blob continues to push itself into every corner of our lives without any sign of stopping.

I think Glenn and John and those who regularly are on this blog are showing they're out of synch with the 6 foot view of life and are maybe too tied to their class and institutional viewpoints. From way up in the high atmosphere of the ivory tower it may look like we are headed to peak woke but down in the trenches it's another day of gas(lighting) attacks and rhetorical bombardments.

Sorry, we are not close to peak woke. Revolutionary tactic have a long history of pulsing, applying pressure when possible and backing off to gain credibility when pressure is no longer possible. We are not in to the backing off phase. Sorry, the neo-Maoist are still fully in control.

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