Bubbles,
Bubbas, and Pharisees
Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, 6/13/20
America’s
political left has gone stark raving mad. Just when we thought the claim of a
third gender – a male, a female, and a something else – was the ultimate in
mindlessness, the far left has gone one better. The newest lunacy is we don’t
need police.
No
need to rehearse what the Minneapolis city council has had to say about the
matter except maybe that its vote to dismantle the city’s police department was
done by a veto-proof majority. All of
Europe has heard about Minneapolis as well, and quite a few people across the
pond are siding with the council members. Believe it or not, Europeans are a
little ahead of us in mindlessness. Rugged individualism and love of personal
liberty are waning in the Old World. Many younger Europeans are simply
accepting what the America-bound Mayflower occupants sought to escape. Sad.
Surprisingly,
even CNN’s Alisyn Camerota cocked her head, looked puzzled, and then asked one
of the Minneapolis council members, “But what if someone breaks into my house
late at night? Who am I gonna call?” Camerota’s question was the closest to
man-on-the-street common sense Camerota has ever come. Perhaps she recalled or
just recently saw it written somewhere that “the heart of man is exceedingly
wicked” and that we should “submit to those who are sent for the punishment of
evildoers.” Anyhow, the council member answered with rigmarole like you’ve
never heard before. She didn’t tell Camerota whom to call or what to do, but
spoke of the need for “transformation of policing.”
Liberals
– ok, Democrats – who are center-left are having a tough time with this issue.
It’s not fun opposing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. She’s all or nothing and represents
the extreme left that is so troubling to those at center-left. Joe Biden (not
that he’s center-left; he left the center long ago) has tried to finesse the
issue by saying that while he opposes defunding the police, he wants a national
police misconduct registry. More centralism in other words.
Former
Governor Mike Huckabee sized things up well when he recently remarked that the
nation is now torn between the bubbles and the bubbas. He identified 5 bubbles,
that is, 5 pockets of group think: Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the media, New
York City, and Washington, D.C., asserting that all 5 are aiding and abetting
the extreme left’s lunacy. The bubbas, he says, are the rest of us.
Well,
not actually all of the rest of us but certainly the 63 million deplorables who
put Donald Trump in office. Huckabee’s assessment was echoed this week by
Richard Grenell, the recently retired acting Director of National Intelligence.
Grenell stated, “Politics is now a fight between Washington and the rest of the
country.”
The
political left’s agenda rests solely on a dire philosophical error. That error
is their belief in the perfectibility of man. Blinded by such idealism,
leftists proceed from that error and cause all kinds of harm with more
government and more laws. How much better off, though, are the poor because of
LBJ’s pervasive War on Poverty? How much weaker are families? How much better
is education because of Carter’s Department of Education?
The Left’s constant
drumbeat about man’s inhumanity to man is suspect. If totally sincere, they would care about
blacks’ inhumanity to other blacks, the numbers for which are astronomical
while the numbers of cops killing blacks are not. Use any source you choose to
check out black on black crime, particularly in Chicago and Cook County,
Illinois. Black on black crime in America is absolutely shameful. Black Lives
Matter ignores it. Behaving like the Mafia, BLM warns, “Side with us or your
store, shop, and reputation are gone. And you better apologize too.”
In five
months we will know if the Left’s lunacy is representative of the country. The
upcoming election will pit a life-long politician against an absolute
non-politician if there ever was one. Modern day Pharisees (never-Trumpers,
timid Republicans, some evangelicals) will shame Trump’s supporters, having
ignored the sins of countless other politicians. Their new-found concern for
virtue will make them feel good, but their moral superiority will melt and drip,
given their support of the wink-wink, back slapping Biden who, though affable,
can turn on a dime, feigns sincerity, and labels abortion “women’s health.”
Where’s virtue in that, Pharisees?
The
Pharisees are guilty of Trump-hate. They don’t want a man who daily kicks
political correctness in the shins; who, unlike his opponent, hobnobs with
steel workers and electricians at work sites instead of grinning big at
fundraisers with fellow elites.
Joe
Biden knows government. Trump knows government’s excesses. We shall soon see
which outlook the nation prefers.
Roger Hines
6/10/20
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