Got into a conversation yesterday over dinner with another driver who had just come from the Portland Oregon area. The conversation rambled back and forth from topic to topic is all good conversations do.
At one point he wondered aloud if the people who were pushing to defund the police in Portland now regretted that demand in light of the chaos that’s been occurring there and for that matter all over the country.
I told him I suppose that the majority do regret it, (though they would nwver admit it publicly) …but that I had no sympathy whatsoever for them on the principle that stupidity should be painful. Particularly, self-imposed stupidity. It’s not like they weren’t warned what would happen under the conditions that they demanded.
The problem of course is a bunch of well-meaning people who hadn’t really thought the thing through, decided that the police were the problem, forgetting that once you remove the police, the protection for Joe and Jane Average is gone.
As if to remins such people of reality, crime including robbery murder carjackings rapes etc., Are all skyrocketing in number. All of this is happening in Democrat-controlled cities.
The real trick is this: if you’re in the business of virtue signaling, you’d best make sure that what you’re pushing for, is actually virtuous.
It’s painful to see that the lesson has to be relearned so frequently.
But indeed let’s hope the lesson has been learned and those exiting those democrat-controlled areas don’t bring Democrat party policy with them. That kind of contagion in the end is more deadly than anything ever released from the bio weapons research being conducted by the NIH and the Chinese communists.
But that’s another discussion.
