On July 28 the authorities in Minneapolis, its Democratically controlled City Council having voted to defund the police, issued a letter to the residents of that city’s Third Precinct advising them to simply turn over their wallets, cell phones, etc. when confronted by thugs seeking to rob them. As the Rule of Law could no longer be upheld by their “progressive” government, their well-being was apparently now dependent on their submission to utter lawlessness.
In an early August Senate Judiciary hearing chaired by Republican Ted Cruz, Mazie Hirono, a Democrat from Hawaii, stormed out after Cruz asked her to denounce ANTIFA, an ironically named world-wide group which purports to be anti-fascist while relentlessly employing the strong-arm tactics of fascism day after anarchist day. While the topic of the hearing was the regrettable impact of such behavior on those given to legitimate, peaceful protest, Hirono, an elected member of the U.S. government, could not bring herself to criticize a movement clearly given to bringing down that very government!
Really! Am I in the midst of a prolonged nightmare or has the world gone fucking nuts?
In a July 31 confrontation between Ohio Republican Jim Jordan and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the latter, after having gone on at some length on the stupidity and irresponsibility of church goers who insisted on attending services in spite of the obvious Covid contamination which might ensue from such, refused, when questioned by Jordan, to be critical of those thousands of “social justice warriors” presently marching shoulder to shoulder not only in the streets of America but throughout much of the Western world. Fauci’s suggestion that it was not for one in his position to comment on such issues was both cowardly and intellectually disingenuous, these, sadly, two of the defining characteristics of many on the contemporary political Left.