The World Liberals Made ｜ 10⧸12⧸23
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Summary
After two radical leftist activists were stabbed to death in major U.S. cities, a heated debate quickly erupted online after many conservatives pointed out that these men fell victim to a problem that they had helped manufacture and justify. Progressives became livid over the fact that someone might recognize the simple cause-and-effect relationship between their politics and the sorrowful state of the cities in which they lived.
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Last week, activist Ryan Carson was stabbed to death in New York City
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and journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed in his Philadelphia home.
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who had recently downplayed the danger of crime in major U.S. cities.
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after many conservatives pointed out that these men fell victim to a problem
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Progressives became livid over the fact that someone might recognize
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the simple cause-and-effect relationship between these men's politics
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and the sorrowful state of the cities in which they lived.
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The fact that conservatives noticed the connection between leftist policies and violent crime
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was far more offensive than the violent crime itself.
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The key to maintaining a progressive worldview is screaming loud enough to drown out the reality unfolding before your eyes.
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While I personally find mocking these deaths in poor taste,
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it's hard to take the outrage and pearl-clutching from progressives seriously.
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These are the same people who danced on the graves of every COVID skeptic,
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celebrated the deaths of conservative pundits and Supreme Court justices,
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and talked about putting their enemies in re-education camps.
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Leftists are more than happy to celebrate the demise of their political opponents
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Progressives view conservatives as enemies in the Schmittian sense,
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an alien other who poses an existential threat and against whom extreme action is justified.
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cheered the destruction of police stations during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020
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and celebrated the death of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on his social media accounts.
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While those on the right might need to conduct themselves with decency for the health of their own souls,
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the left's current calls for propriety are utterly fake and hollow.
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Ultimately, it's a deeply flawed view of the human condition that leads the left
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To the progressives, human nature is infinitely malleable
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and individuals can be molded into the perfect subject that will produce an earthly utopia.
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The human starts as basically good, kind, and socially cooperative
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and is only forced to commit criminal acts by a set of oppressive institutions.
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People are not fallen creatures who steal and murder due to the evil that lurks in every human soul,
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but victims compelled to commit crimes by the white Christian capitalist patriarchy
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The left views the hard physical deterrence of police and prisons
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not as necessary institutions for maintaining civilization against a violent aspect of human nature
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that will always exist, but as the primary cause of that violence.
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As amazing as it seems, leftists and even a great many liberals
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have difficulty connecting the application of their utopian ideology
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The Antifa activists can call for police abolition,
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open borders, and reduce prison sentences for violent felons
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while still being totally shocked by the fact that the streets are full of criminals
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who would knife a man sitting on a bench with his girlfriend.
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When your famous grainy mustard potato salad isn't so famous without the grainy mustard?
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When the barbecue's lit, but there's nothing to grill?
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When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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Aggressive policing and strictly enforced penalties will usually do the trick,
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but the results tend to offend liberal sensibilities.
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The commission of crimes is not distributed equally across all demographics,
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and effective deterrence will naturally follow this unequal distribution.
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Leftists see this pattern, and due to their warped view of human nature,
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assume that it's the deterrence itself that causes crime.
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People should be able to sit on a bench in New York City at any time, day or night,
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The social technology required to achieve this is neither new nor profound.
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But the left is obsessed with the idea of social progress,
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and cares very little about the destruction their revolution leaves in its wake.
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A few years ago, a popular internet meme featured the most absurd,
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degenerate, or violent event possible with the text,
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This is the future liberals want, emblazoned across the top.
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That meme format is dead, because it simply became the world we now occupy.
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Leftists demand police abolition, but are then shocked by violent crime.
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They call for open borders, but are shocked by human trafficking,
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Leftists championed locking down the nation's children during COVID,
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but are shocked by massive educational setbacks and cratering mental health.
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If the communist revolutions of the past have taught us anything,
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it's that progressives will continue their march towards utopia,
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no matter how violent, depressing, or economically devastating
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Therefore, no matter how long the left has been in power,
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Those with what the economist Thomas Sowell called the constrained vision
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understand that human nature is deeply flawed and largely unchangeable.
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We live in a fallen world where people can and will make evil choices,
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Greed, violence, poverty, addiction, and crime are tragically just as much of a part of the human
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experience as love, peace, joy, and contentment.
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That doesn't mean that individuals with the constrained vision are exempt from making the world a better place.
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They still feel a strong sense of duty to care for and improve the lives of those in their families and communities.
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But unlike those with the utopian, unconstrained vision,
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conservatives know that there are hard limits to human nature,
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and so they are less likely to support radical social engineering.
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Utopians believe that crime can be ameliorated by social workers armed with therapy.
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Conservatives understand that some evils can only be stopped by a police officer armed with a gun.
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Conservatives love to quote John Adams' famous line,
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, and with good reason.
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It communicates the traditional view that faith and a shared commitment to the same moral vision
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But they rarely consider the implications of the line that follows.
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It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
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Liberty is the rare and precious fruit of virtue.
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Progressives have deconstructed traditions that constrained our nature
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in the hope that it would allow them to reach utopia.
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Instead, it has unleashed the far darker impulses that lurked beneath the surface of civilization.
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The representative republic established by the U.S. Constitution
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and the liberty it provided were not meant for those bent on civilizational suicide.
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Liberals have a monopoly on political power in most major American cities,
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and the results are as predictable as a heroin user with a blank check.
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The difficult but unavoidable truth is that progressives are simply incapable of self-government.
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The left has destroyed the regions it rules and will continue to do so
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no matter how devastating the consequences become.
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In the past, a pendulum effect ensured that the delusional policies of the left
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followed by a conservative reaction of self-preservation to clean up the streets and restore order.
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Before long, of course, people would forget why things got so bad
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The progressive revolution has driven all conservative influence out of blue cities.
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and now they must suffer the consequences of the world that they made.
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