“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization—including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain—without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.” —Thomas Sowell
“...Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent...” —Adam Smith
I’ve remained silent for a while now, not knowing what to say or how to sort the many threads. Perhaps I’m slow, but I finally had at least a minor “aha” moment. I know it’s all fundamentally about money and power. Isn’t it always? But the salient question is always who this evil benefits. The one thing I know for sure is that it’s not independent communities and local free markets.
It’s human nature to want the world around us to make sense. We try to find common ground, but see erstwhile stable institutions, once employed to maintain safety and order, failing. Our stable society is dissolving into million stratified fragments, all promoted by adherents to the twin idiocies of DEI and CRT. Overwhelmed, we see little choice but to retreat, hide, and live in our mental bunkers.
This is purposeful. If we remain stunned into silence and perceive it to be dangerous to speak up, it’s easier to destroy everything we hold dear and, yes, fundamentally change America—into a miserable, third-world dictatorship where the woke few live like kings, and the rest suffer.
Think about how we shop for what we need. In the Bay Area, you can’t find what you’re looking for in a store locally because shoplifting and street crime have decimated retail business so that empty storefronts abut stores with nearly empty shelves. The choice between wasting expensive gas hunting for this or that item and risking assault while you’re out versus online shopping—it’s simple.
Image: San Francisco’s deserted downtown shopping district. YouTube screen grab.Go conveniently to Amazon. They’ve got the goods, plenty of choices, and they’ll get them to you so very fast! So fast other online retailers can’t compete. Returns are equally easy—no jockeying with customer service for authorization and label, no lining up at the post office. Just drop it off next time you get groceries. I can’t count the times I’ve tried to buy directly from other online retailers only to fall back on Amazon because it’s just that much easier and cheaper.
How did we get here? I’d argue that it was the result of deliberate Democrat policies. In Democrat-run enclaves, we have District Attorneys who don’t charge criminals legislatures that do away with cash bail. It mocks justice. Moreover, the worst of these DAs were selected, financed, and elected by the Soros/WEF crowd, so they are controlled wholly by forces outside the community. They push a DEI model of crime where the “poor” perp is always the wronged person. If you defend yourself, your store, your property, your body, and your possessions, you risk being charged with a crime—against an “under-represented minority”.
