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2019-07-07 Home Front: Politix

[AMERICANTHINKER] A scenario unfolded last week that has become boringly predictable. Bad guy does bad things. Good guy with authority shows up to stop him. Bad guy attacks good guy with weapon. Good guy shoots bad guy. Bad guy’s "community" allege good guy is racist. Craven politician holds town hall meeting. Craven politician gets shouted down by angry mob. Craven politician folds like wet paper to angry mob’s demands. Craven politician appoints special prosecutor to investigate good guy, who determines good guy was justified in shooting the bad guy. Angry mob insists the "system" is rigged against them. Bad guy’s kindergarten graduation picture circulates Internet. Bad guy’s relatives give interview explaining how much bad guy had always dreamed of being an astronaut. Media salivates all over itself. Other good guys question the sanity of risking their lives to stop bad guys. Less good guys volunteer to do so. Crime increases. Angry mob blames the "system" for neglecting rising crime. Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Bugs Moroni was holding Slats from behind while his brother Greasy Thumb was pounding his face into paste ...
another bad guy does bad things. Good guy with authority shows up to stop him. Rinse. Repeat.

Okay, only the first half of this scenario has happened so far, but who wants to bet against the second half playing out as predicted? In this specific biopunk performance, the role of the craven politician who succumbed to the mob of his own creation was none other than America’s Aww Shucks Mayor, Pete Buttigieg

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...mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
. In his charming hometown of South Bend, Indiana, a white police officer shot a black car burglar Eric Logan who, ignoring the officer’s verbal instructions to halt, came at him with a knife. In a move he now certainly regrets, Buttigieg took a break from his presidential campaign to return to South Bend to chaperone a grotesque orgy of racist invective, during which was made evident that his constituents have determined the officer’s guilt solely based on his skin color (as well as Logan’s innocence, for the same reason). There was zero interest in factual evidence, and even less in the presumption of innocence. Not one to get hung up on such trivialities, Buttigieg made clear from his more passionate ripostes that his sole interest was placating the mob. Everyone, it’s all my fault. I might as well have pulled the trigger myself. I’ll try to do better. I’m calling in everyone from DOJ to Scotland Yard to come investigate. The Stasi? Yeah, I can call them too. Your wish is my command, but please just stop yelling at me. (I paraphrase, but that was basically the gist). From the opening gambit he allowed the inmates to run the asylum, and with every panicked concession he gave, the circling sharks simply grew more frenzied at the scent of blood.

A town hall event seems unwarranted in South Bend, which is among the top 3% most violent cities in America, and is among the top 30 cities for highest murder rates. In April, an 11-month-old boy was shot. On the day of the town hall itself, six people were shot. But to the extent that any of this phased the mob, they didn’t show it. A black infant takes a bullet, and the city collectively shrugs. No protests. No town halls. But a black criminal is shot by a cop acting in self-defense, and we’re suddenly one city hall coverup away from genocide.

The town hall had nothing to do with "justice" for a thug who had no qualms about stealing from and attempting to murder other people. Pete Buttigieg did not fail this man. The police did not fail this man. Corporate America did not fail this man. To the extent that this man was failed by anyone other than himself and his unforced choices, he was failed by his "parents" and his "community" (to use those terms generously). But it takes hard work and self-reflection, over a period of generations and within the entire culture, to heal these deficiencies. It is much easier to blame some vague, sinister "system" and take it out on the sniveling mayor who’s willing to sit there and nod reflectively as he’s unmasked as the Grand Cyclops of the South Bend KKK.

Maybe Buttigieg attended because he honestly cares about his constituents, or maybe it was an ill-considered PR stunt. Maybe the police officer was justified in the shooting, or maybe he wasn’t. The only question answered during Buttigieg’s town hall was whether or not a mob can be controlled. That hypothesis has been tested before by politicians throughout history. The result has always been consistent, and always will be: don’t try it. "Revolutionary justice" and mob justice are one and the same -- both require the absence of any legal restraint and the replacement of reason with raw emotion to operate. When mob justice inevitably fails to solve the problems it originally sets out to rectify, it changes course like a flock of birds. All revolutions eat their own, and they usually start with their leaders, those once-inspirational ideologues whose "betrayals" and "reactionary" pasts are conveniently unearthed when the lights start going out and blame needs to be laid at the feet of anything except the fanatical ideology from which the mob extracts its wretched ideas. Robespierre, Trotsky, and Zinoviev all learned this the hard way, and they were much more adept at reading a mob than is Buttigieg.

Posted by Fred 2019-07-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Mob anxiety feeds upon itself. Just being is such a meeting amplifies their fears. So communication is not the answer. Media will only spread the the emotional infection to others. The public will be sitting in a small room perhaps with no windows cowering on their cushioned chair holding their knife or axe. Yes, axe. Just to walk outside they carry an axe for protection. Get a flat from running over a nail was a deliberate act by someone towards them personally. Anxiety so bad they don't sleep. So as you can see drugs for many illegal or legal to them are the only relief or perhaps suicide.

Posted by Dale 2019-07-07 05:19|| 2019-07-07 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 These beauzeaux harp on their "leadership" and how the other side is so "divisive." Then there's something like this, that shows just how much talent they actually have.

Posted by Fred 2019-07-07 10:09|| 2019-07-07 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Mob anxiety feeds upon itself.

Which is why the 18th century concentrated so much on developing reason and logic. I think we’re due for a revival of that, moving all the feelz to a secondary consideration.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-07-07 23:36|| 2019-07-07 23:36|| Front Page Top

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