Our elites, like the Third World rich, have mastered ignoring—and navigating around—the misery of others in their midst.
Victor Davis Hanson
. . ."Violent crime is now soaring in America. But two things are different about America’s new criminality.
"One is the virtual impunity of it. Thieves now brazenly swarm a store, ransack, steal, and flee with the content without worry of arrest.
"Second, the Left often justifies crime as a sort of righteous payback against a supposedly exploitative system.
"So, the architect of the so-called 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones, preened of the summer 2020 riotous destruction of property: “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
"Third Worldization reflects the asymmetry of law enforcement. Ideology and money, not the law, adjudicate who gets arrested and tried, and who does not.
"There were 120 days of continuous looting, arson, and lethal violence in summer 2020. The riots were variously characterized by the burning of courthouses, police precincts, and an iconic church." . . .
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