In an infamous Tweet of 2021, Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib, a member of the female Squad at least in part responsible for pushing Biden to the far Left, pleaded “no more policing,” suggesting not only that inasmuch as America’s police forces were “inherently racist” they should be radically reduced in size, but that convicted criminals ought to be released from prison on the “honor system.” Predictably, Bill Mahr called her suggestion insane.
Democratic spokesperson Jen Psaki has made it clear that Biden did not agree with Tlaib. Yet the overwhelming majority of those on the Left, in the wake of George Floyd’s death, insisted that the American legal system was systemically corrupt, Democratic governors, mayors and district attorneys in states and cities around the country initiating “reforms” which inevitably led to reductions in their police forces. In Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, for example, there are presently 2000 fewer cops than there were two years ago. Yet that crime is rampant in her city, as it is in so many other “liberal” jurisdictions, [San Fransisco, Portland, etc., etc.], apparently has nothing to do with the incredibly naive vision of human nature espoused by “progressives.”
Psaki may be telling the truth and Biden may not agree with Tlaib’s proposal, but a huge percentage of those on the Left, not its periphery but the mainstream Left, spent a good deal of time aboard the Defund Express in 2020-21, suggesting not just that America’s police forces need to be carefully screened for racist elements but that they ought to be replaced by bodies more concerned with the “inequities” which lead to criminal behavior than the actual enforcement of the Law. Implicit in this agenda, of course, is the notion that most crimes are not the product of Human Evil, indeed that murderers and rapists are generally victims of circumstance rather than heartless predators!
The result of this naive, amoral, Neo-Marxist vision of the species has been an explosion of crime in certain urban centers resulting in tens of thousands of law abiding citizens seeking to escape to the friendlier confines of what are mostly Republican run states and cities. Realizing that his party is likely to be trounced in 2022’s mid-term elections, Biden recently came out in favor of prioritizing public safety, suggesting that the millions of pandemic stimulus dollars allotted in 2021 be used to hire more cops in cities plagued by crime.
When Republicans expressed the need for effective law enforcement two years ago, they were denounced as heartless monsters on the grounds that U.S. Law Enforcement was inherently, irredeemably racist. Rashida Tlaid’s narrative was in fact the main narrative of the Left! Biden’s recent about-face is clearly a matter of political expediency, clearly motivated by his lust for power. But beyond that it is a repudiation of the myriad of anti-police rants launched not just by biased advocacy groups such as B.L.M., but by the supposedly neutral pundits at CNN, MSNBC and throughout the mainstream media.
Here in Liberal Canada our Supreme Court has just decreed that extreme intoxication ought to be taken into account in sentencing those guilty of serious crimes while under the influence. Drink a liter of vodka, kill a family of five while driving your car, and our courts are now urged to allow that it was not you but the vodka that was responsible. Such is the so-called compassion that has come to pervade the Left both here and south of the border, Biden’s sudden interest in the welfare of law abiding citizens being a hypocritical ploy that is way too little, way too late!