HMD: The Scourge of Teen Takeovers

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I continue to think that the central aspect of the left's insanity is its refusal to acknowledge plain facts. Everyone knows what's going on here...except for leftists...secure in their echo chamber...

They have an almost superhuman ability to simply ignore facts that are right in front of their noses.

It'd be funny--if it weren't so repulsively idiotic--that they continue to try to blame such stuff on the pandemic...

HMD:

Democratic elites have been telegraphing a message to black teens: as victims of white oppression, you are not responsible for your misbehavior. Theft is a reasonable response to a rapacious economic system; violence in the name of racial justice is understandable. The average teen may not follow politics closely, but the sentiment behind Brandon Johnson’s 2025 pronouncement about law enforcement (“It is racist; it is immoral; it is unholy—and it is not the way to drive violence down”) is widespread enough to penetrate even the hermetic world of teen culture.

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Teen takeovers are not a mystery. They are the predictable result of a culture that increasingly refuses to hold lawbreakers responsible for antisocial behavior, especially if those lawbreakers are black. Every institution that once imposed discipline—the family, the schools, the juvenile-justice system, the police, even public opinion—has been weakened. Despite elite hopes, government programs cannot substitute for the habits of self-control and respect for law that make civil society possible, however. Until those habits are restored, Americans should expect more takeovers and a widening divide between jurisdictions willing to enforce basic norms and those that are not.

When I was young, I though that it was conservatives who refused to face facts, and liberals (which we had then) who were intellectually honest and willing to recognize unpleasant truths. I honestly don't know whether that was ever true...but that's the way it seemed to me.

Now, of course, it is just the opposite.

Conservatives today aren't intellectually pure as the driven snow by any stretch of the imagination...but the left has simply come unhinged...