The Homan Square scandal should remind us that governments don’t work very well, and that big city governments under long term Democratic rule generally work less well than others. This wasn’t happening in Alabama; this wasn’t the KKK targeting minorities. This isn’t uncaring white suburbanites mistreating urban minorities. It happened in the most liberal city in one of the most liberal states in the country.Personally, I think Mead gives these progressives too much credit. I think the more likely explanation is that they don't really give a shit. That's the way it is in the City That Works.
But we shouldn’t be surprised that a Democratic urban machine failed its prisoners. Look at what happens in Chicago schools. And Chicago, whatever its problems, is nowhere near the bottom tier of American cities when it comes to incompetent government.
Blue model “progressives” are always sure that big and complicated government programs can and will fix complicated and difficult social problems. They are always sure that the people who are skeptical about these programs are evil racists who hate the poor. And they are always surprised when the inevitable happens, the programs don’t work, and the institutions go wrong.
It's too bad that Ace Commenter Rich doesn't come around any more. I'd love to see him go all Bertrand Russell on this topic. There's more in the post immediately below this one.
2 comments:
A government that knows it has the electorate "locked up" and that the press will give it a free pass (even when the press itself is threatened) truly has no accountability. Every government - right or left - in the same setting acts the same way. "Rights? Prove it, buddy. In here you have exactly what I say you can have. I just have to say you're a terrorist, or a Jew, or I felt threatened. "
Meanwhile, the Left organizes cavils on about micro-aggression and manspreading while leading social media witch-hunts for wrong-thinkers.
What's striking here is that a certain community organizer had to have heard the complaints from people who had gone there, but he went all crazy on Club Gitmo instead. There is a message there.
Another message is to be found in the fact that apparently hundreds, if not thousands, of people worked there and saw the abuses, but didn't speak up. It's an amazing code of omerta that is going on there....and in the IRS, and the BATFE, and the State Department, and.....
Speaking of Club Gitmo, looks like there are some bunks open. Doesn't this count as waging war against our country, or at least its Constitution?
Post a Comment