Recalling my summary of a Wretchard The Cat tweet from the Venezuela blackouts, the electricity didn't stop because machines broke down, it stopped because the skilled people had left. It was skilled people, not machines that made electricity. They were the ones that kept the machines running.
It's not laws that make a civilized society, it's the enforcement of laws. If the cops leave or pull back, enforcement of laws will stop. After that, it's a civilizational blackout.
What wife is going to want her white, cop husband going back out on the beat when he can't defend himself from massive, intoxicated, black criminals resisting arrest and then firing a taser at him? I don't know about you, but I've done my share of martial arts and I am here to tell you that in a no-holds-barred, bare-knuckled fight, if you get tased, you're dead. I mean D-E-A-D dead. You fall to the ground, immobilized, even for three seconds, and you'll get an NFL kickoff kick to the head. Goodnight.
Similarly, there's a rumor that three NYPD cops were poisoned while eating at a Shake Shack. It doesn't matter whether the story is true or not. All that matters is the fear and doubt it puts in the mind of Mrs. Cop. Mr. Cop, too, but it's wife kitteh's constant worries that will make his life unbearable. Given the level of crazed hatred that has been generated by the media and our schools, a story about cops being poisoned wasn't at all surprising.
Now take a look at where the problems are and their political leanings.
| City | State |
| Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| Seattle | Washington |
| Chicago | Illinois |
| NYC | New York |
| Los Angeles | California |
| Atlanta | Georgia |
Hmm. I wonder if there's some kind of trend here. Hey, maybe if I were a cop's wife, I'd suggest moving to a red city in a red state! That just might work.
To repeat myself, the Democrats' political leaders are falling off the tiger. They have to provide some level of city functionality for their voters. Without the cops, that's impossible. If their cities decay into chaos, making a national case is going to be very difficult.
Finally, there is the distinct possibility that the descent into chaos will finally cost them a big chunk of the black vote. If that happens, and we should all pray to God that it does, they're well and truly hosed.
Now dig this.
Quick reminder for when they tell you destroying property isn’t violence. pic.twitter.com/Sni5iGxVRy
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) June 15, 2020
"It's not laws that make a civilized society, it's the enforcement of laws. If the cops leave or pull back, enforcement of laws will stop. After that, it's a civilizational blackout."
ReplyDeleteEven more fundamentally, its an inherently civilized society/populace which makes enforcement of laws almost unnecessary.
When a people rule themselves, few laws are needed, and are lightly enforced.
When a people cannot/will not rule themselves, laws multiple, enforcement is heavy -- yet arbitrary -- and things keep getting worse.
Andrew Breitbart is famous for trying to get conservatives to understand that "Politics is down-stream of culture". But, seemingly, Breitbart failed to grasp that "Culture is downstream of cult (i.e. religion)".
An irreligious people cannot rule themselves.
"Similarly, there's a rumor that three NYPD cops were poisoned while eating at a Shake Shack. It doesn't matter whether the story is true or not. All that matters is the fear and doubt it puts in the mind ..."
ReplyDeleteI've read that the Powers That Be have determined that the poisoning was accidental, that the cleaning solution hadn't been properly cleaned out of the machine before new shake mix was put in. The oddity that no customers but three cops were reported to have been poisoned by this careless accident goes unremarked.
"Nothing to see here! Move along!"