The Regressive Left’s Future on Display

10 Replies to “The Regressive Left’s Future on Display”

1. They reelected Comrade Bill DeBlasio a few years ago. They keep electing Cuomos to the Governorship. Now they are getting it good and hard. And as it gets worse and worse in the next five or ten years, does anyone think they may actually stop doing the same self destructive behavior they have been doing? If anything, they will elect even more radical leaders. Let it all implode. The Worse, the Better!

   1. *
      ah, ontario… you slay me…

      kidnap and murder a teenager… do two years and
      get full parole… then get you some edumacation
      and get called to the bar.

      *

2. Here’s the money shot…

   But Legal Aid Society, which represents Barry, argued the NYPD is using a few cases to spread fear over the new bail reform law. “Mr. Barry’s case underscores the need for economic stability and meaningful social services, not a need to roll back bail reform,” the society said in a statement. “Locking up Mr. Barry on unaffordable bail or worse, remanding without bail, ultimately does nothing to protect the public and fails entirely to address his actual needs.”

   The left sees criminals as victims of a cruel and unfair society, not people who deserved to be locked away. The fact that criminals primarily prey on the poor is of no concern. The good people of the Legal Aid Society ain’t the victims, so it’s all fine there.

3. Liberals: “crime is the result of economic inequality. Therefore, the punishment for murder will be to give the criminal $1 million dollars to set him on the right path.” In Canada, terrorists already get $10.5 million to set them straight.

4. Bail reform is necessary because bail was keeping people who couldn’t afford to pay it locked away for months or years for no good reason. These two data points if you can even call them that don’t change the larger picture. Christ if you’re seriously reaching for a TuffGai on Krime campaign you really are out of ideas.

   1. A few data points is all that is needed. If Charles Barry can prey on commuters so flagrantly then so can anyone else, and that’s a serious problem.

      It’s like seeing a few people come down with a disease. You might dismiss it as a only a couple cases, but if the disease shows signs of being wildly contagious, you should be alarmed.

      1. It’s not contagious. And it’s clear that Barry was already a career criminal before the much needed bail reform. Throwing people behind bars because they can’t cough up dough to get a few heels like Barry is a cure worse than the disease.

         1. well unDork, behind bars makes it hard to keep breaking the law, so why are you against that, don’t break the law in the first place, and bail is NO problemo. Kriste you make it hard to figure out who is the stupidest in here You, Ooz, Colon, or some iteration of strapon

5. the syndrome is common to all politishuns:
   ‘solve’ one problem by creating hundreds and sometimes thousands more.
   *it aint just leftoids. m’kay?*

6. Western Civilization has some foundational beliefs. One of them is that of free will, that individuals are responsible for their behaviour, for their actions and even their intentions. Hence, why a criminal code offence has two parts, one the act itself and the criminal intent(mens rea).

   Teaching children to take responsibility for their actions, to learn self-discipline, reciprocity in their interactions with others (Golden Rule) throughout one’s life into adulthood, is called morality, and in the social context, civil behaviour. Traditional wisdom instructed that the violators of the rules( e.i. thou shalt not steal(rob)/violate property rights(gov’t. theft,too) faced that unacceptable acts result in:

   1. apprehension/arrest(citizen cop/prof. cop).

   2.You pay a penalty/penance e.i. social sanctions, legal sanctions fine/jail/physical punishment. The jail/penitentiary time was to give the offender time/motivation to repent, as a condition for being allowed back into society rather than being e.i. banished or worse. Social sanctions are generally more effective being pervasive. If no one will hire you or do business with you, associate with you that’s effective.

   However, when the gov’t. pays the criminal a subsistence wage and the same amount, regardless of behaviour. It subverts social sanction.
   They’ve institutionalized crime pays for the repeat offender. Especially so, when all punishment is removed as in the case described. The criminal’s status has been elevated; something the repeat offender in the story celebrates and so confirms.

   When the political class/includes judiciary mistook empathy for justice, and adopted (almost literally) the criminal as victim rather than agent of his misfortune. Peace, order and good governance was replaced with conflict, chaos and tyranny by hubris in governance. Without even the humility to pay attention to what happens when traditional wisdom (human psychology/nature/culture(the good father archetype) are violated. Their offence is hubris*, “the pride that goeth before a fall”.

   But because, we’ve allowed the political class of politicians and judiciary to be isolated from having to face the consequences of their decisions. It is, we, the ordinary citizens to pay the price for their mistakes, and at times like this it seems like a price without end.

   There will be an end, but if left very late in the game, the process may be brutal. Placing those without competence into positions requiring it, follows the infiltration of “class conflict” morphed into identity politics, into our body politic. The result is social cohesion fractures.

   The quality of life suffers ! That is the lesson for this Sunday. Will we, be tested on this lesson? We are now and will be until, we relearn it.