{"id":20989,"date":"2022-11-03T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=20989"},"modified":"2022-11-03T16:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T20:36:52","slug":"the-reality-of-crime-is-racist-according-to-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/03\/the-reality-of-crime-is-racist-according-to-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reality of Crime is Racist, According to the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this long emotionally fraught article<\/a> about Republicans using election advertising on crime as a dishonest but very effective tactic against Democrats in the mid-term elections.\u00a0 So, it went into all of the reasons why voters are swayed by this type of ad.\u00a0 They mentioned how crime is a visceral subject that elicits fear.\u00a0 And fear is very powerful.\u00a0 They admitted that all the large cities actually are experiencing enormous upticks in all crime since 2020.\u00a0 They even admit that the Democrat candidates are easily linked to things like cashless bail and policies advocating releasing convicted criminals for even offenses like murder.\u00a0 But finally at the end of the article it fell back on the old refrain that using crime as an election issue is RACIST!\u00a0 They even went all the way back to 1988 and dug up the Willie Horton ads that Bush Senior used against Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis during the presidential election.\u00a0 And they lament how racist that was.\u00a0 After all Willie Horton was black.\u00a0 He was also a murderer who was furloughed on his own recognizance from prison by Dukakis\u2019s program only to flee and then commit rape and other crimes.\u00a0 But mentioning such crimes is by the Left\u2019s definition racist.<\/p>\n

Well, I guess if they claim that black voters are racists because they want to reduce crime then maybe that is a defensible position.\u00a0 After all New York City voters elected Mayor Eric Adams, a black former police officer, who ran as the law-and-order candidate, because they were alarmed by the skyrocketing violent crime wave that had engulfed the city during and after the George Floyd riots.\u00a0 Were the majority non-white residents secret white supremacists?\u00a0 Is Eric Adams a white supremacist because he embraces the dog whistle term \u201claw and order?\u201d\u00a0 It seems difficult to imagine.<\/p>\n

I think what the article was trying to say is that calling it racist is the only hope the Democrats have of defeating the tactic of using crime as a weapon against them.\u00a0 If they can frighten the Republicans away from using crime then they will deprive them of a very potent weapon.<\/p>\n

Back in June the media tried to use gaslighting by claiming that all their research showed that the potent issues in the 2022 elections would be abortion and threats to democracy.\u00a0 Basically they were telling the Republicans that those were the only acceptable election topics they could use.\u00a0 Finally, a few months ago they admitted that inflation would be the biggest negative for them but they still contended that crime was a very minor issue.<\/p>\n

Well, here we are a week out from election and they\u2019ve finally faced the facts.\u00a0 Crime is the second biggest issue.\u00a0 And in some areas, like the suburbs around the most dangerous cities it might be the biggest.\u00a0 And in a roundabout way this article sort of admits that there\u2019s no way to deflect these attacks because basically they\u2019re true.\u00a0 And with nothing they can do about those facts all they can do is claim that pointing out those facts is racist.<\/p>\n

Very well, reality is racist.\u00a0 But reality has a habit of rearing its racist head when people who depend on make believe can least afford it to.\u00a0 If you have district attorneys releasing hardened criminals in cities like New York, Chicago and Philadelphia and those criminals then commit murders and assaults, it\u2019s not surprising if voters decide to punish your party.<\/p>\n

When even cobalt blue New York state might elect a Republican governor then we know that something has gone profoundly wrong.\u00a0 Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one in the \u201cEmpire State.\u201d\u00a0 Nothing but fear can account for this ideological shift.\u00a0 And nothing but fear can account for the magazine Vox admitting the truth; that they own the crime problem and it\u2019s going to do them in this year at the polls.\u00a0 Sucks being them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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