For the past 20 years, the left has made heroes of some of the biggest drekh in the world.
There was a time long ago when the Democrats found their heroes in people who were at least on the surface somewhat inspiring: JFK, RFK (Sr.), Martin Luther King and others were at least in their public personae people of hope and positive approach to life. That has gone. For quite some time now, the left/Democrats have thrown their lot with human garbage. The question is why.
started to notice that the Democrats turned losers into heroes with the story of Michael Brown in 2014. Brown was a small-time criminal in Ferguson, Missouri. The actual events on the day he died seem to be as follows: he went to a store where he was recorded on camera stealing a box of cigars. When confronted by police who found him and a friend walking down the middle of the street and interfering with traffic, he attacked an officer and tried to take his gun. After he ran away from the squad car, he charged at the officer who went after him. The officer shot Brown dead. The multiple autopsies disappointed the left when the "Hands up, don’t shoot" narrative died with the bullets having entered the criminal’s front as he faced the policeman whom he charged.
So you have a criminal who was involved in criminal activity. No, he did not kill a dozen people or walk off with the Mona Lisa. But he was a criminal and the police—the same police on whom we rely for order in our society—came to deal with him. He tried to take a policeman’s gun and he turned to attack the policeman for a second time when neutralized. Though the aggressive federal investigation into the actions of the cop could not find that he did anything wrong, the policeman had to change his name and move away from his home in Ferguson.
Why would the left tie their wagon to such a horrible horse? The fellow had little redeeming in his life and the only factor that they could try to hang on to was police brutality. The autopsy and multiple state and federal investigations showed that the cops did no wrong. That should have been the end of it with everyone praising the cops. But the left had bought into the story and could not give it up. Their hero was a local criminal when the real hero should have been the cop who stopped him.
Ferguson was small potatoes compared to George Floyd and Minnesota in 2020. Floyd had an even longer rap sheet. He was high on fentanyl, which apparently was a bigger factor in his death than the actions of the arresting officers. Remember our honorable members of Congress taking a knee in memory of a guy who once put a gun to the stomach of a pregnant woman whom he was robbing. I’m not suggesting that our heroes have to be perfect, but if someone is known to have committed multiple crimes, why would the left/Democrats make him into an idol, complete with murals in Kabul and Washington? Would they have been happy to receive the counterfeit $20 bill which started his final interaction with the police?
The answer in both cases is the same: the left couldn't care less about Brown or Floyd. In these cases and others in big cities, the actions and outcomes gave Democrats a hammer to use against police, Donald Trump, Republicans, law-and-order prosecutors. Mrs. Waltz told us how much she enjoyed smelling the fires of the George Floyd fires, and as in days of yore, a police station was offered on the altar of diversity and burned to the ground. Stores were looted and burned, people were killed and injured—and for what? For a guy that not one person in Congress would let date his daughter. Their actions brought back memories of Hitler using the shooting death of Ernst vom Rath to put into motion the Kristallnacht pogrom against German and Austrian Jewry. Hitler no doubt knew nothing of the German diplomat but, like Rahm Emanuel, knew that one should never let a crisis go to waste. The Democrats would not have given either Brown or Floyd the right time of day in their lives; in their deaths, they found an opportunity to attack their political opponents for their own advantage.
One would think—maybe, hope—that the left would have a limit to the kind of dirtball that it would associate with in order to make political hay. For Republicans, even if David Duke said words of great wisdom, they would push him away with both hands. Not the left. They embraced Hamas from day one of the pogrom against the Jews. When clear evidence of mass rape, murder, torture, theft, and kidnapping became indisputable, the left never abandoned their new heroes. They wore their keffiyehs and demanded their goals: the death of Jews and the destruction of the state of Israel. Most people don’t put up pictures of mass rapists in their dorm rooms, but these are the same people who elevated a young guy who murdered an insurance CEO in cold blood. As with the blacks above, Hamas and Luigi are all but irrelevant. In both cases, the left sees an enemy—Jews/Israeli and CEOs of successful companies—being harmed and hurt. It would be like a Frenchman walking outside, only to see a Nazi killed by an Allied sniper. The Frenchmen would be thrilled. But there is a clear difference. The Nazis did real evil and did a lot of it in France and to the French people. Besides French Jews sent off to concentration camps, France had to pay enormous reparations to Germany, and many young French men were employed as slave labor. Israelis are not perfect and the CEO of UnitedHealthcare may have been involved in dubious financial activities, but neither was so evil as to justify the Democrats wildly embracing their murderers.
So, what’s going on? The left and its Democratic stooges have given up on building anything useful to Americans. They have no serious plan for the economy, policing, foreign policy, the border, immigration, etc. So all they can do is cheer those who harm their perceived enemies. Remember, the anti-Israel protests started in earnest well before Israel began its military response. So, Jews were ruthlessly murdered and the left came out to attack Israel and support Hamas. We’re talking sicko land and that’s where today’s left is. "Trans" supports the very people who would readily throw them off of a tall building—such is their hatred of Israel and Jews that they would rather hang out with their executioners rather than those chased and murdered. They do not have any positive heroes and the ones they praise are criminals or worse.
IMO there are several effects in play:
(a) Most of these "credentialed elites" are garbage and know it subconsciously - so they promote "garbage is beautiful".
(b) A lot of them are really unhappy - having wormed their way into jobs (using DEI/a$$ kissing) they're totally unsuited for (cf. Kamala). Therefore they become Nihilists.
(c) There are millions with college degrees and no chance of getting a job (they consider appropriate). They are the foot soldiers of "revolution" - will riot on any issue.
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