Waukesha: Because Liberalism Made Things Worse

The important thing to understand about the Waukesha nightmare and the liberal meltdown on the criminal justice system is that liberals are in the position of the proverbial little Dutch boy, trying to save the country by plugging a hole in the dyke with his finger.

Maybe that worked in the story, but it doesn't work in real life.

The problem with the criminal justice system is not excessive bail. Or crazy Soros prosecutors. Or too many black men in jail.

The problem is the liberal welfare state, and in particular the way it has hammered blacks.

You can see that in the headline black victims.

Rodney King: "beaten by LAPD officers during his arrest, after a high-speed chase, for driving while intoxicated on I-210." Context: Resisting arrest.

Travyon Martin: "fatally shot in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old Hispanic American." Context: Martin was on top of Zimmerman, bashing his head, when Zimmerman shot him.

Michael Brown: "fatally shot by 28-year-old white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the city of Ferguson, Missouri." Context: Brown was suspected of a theft and wrestled for Wilson's gun.

George Floyd: "murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest." Context: Floyd was resisting arrest, and high on drugs.

Jacob Blake: "shot and seriously injured by police officer Rusten Sheskey in Kenosha, Wisconsin." Context: Blake was going for a knife when shot.

All of these victims were not just victims of police brutality, they were the logical consequence of the last 150 years of educated-class politics that treats the lower class as helpless victims unable to fend for themselves.

Item: I say that the cultural agenda since 1800 should have been to encourage farm-workers and industrial workers to become responsible middle-class citizens and grow out of any serf status lingering on from the Middle Ages -- or slave status lingering on from King Cotton.

Item: I say that the welfare programs passed in 1965 were exactly the worst thing to do when African Americans were emerging from a century of Jim Crow. It blitzed the black low-income family, and the black low-income family is still blitzed.

Item: I say that politics and government are only good for waging war and handing out loot and plunder. The more government, the more everything devolves into a war and the more the economy is reduced to a handout of loot and plunder.

Item: I say that humans are social animals, and that nearly all human social life should be enmeshed in a network of voluntary social, religious and cultural institutions, and not by government. I particularly mean that poverty should be managed by mutual-aid organizations and not by government.

I say that if you want to understand the politics of our liberal friends it makes sense if you realize that they have No Idea that the "items" above are the reason why blacks are in endless problems with family dysfunction and run-ins with the police. They have No Idea that mental illness and homeless problems issue directly from their politics that has hammered families and encouraged people to look for help from the government instead of their families.

So liberals want to lower bail requirements, because they see, before their eyes, how low-income people are oppressed by the criminal justice system. They just cannot see upstream that the overburdened criminal justice system is the consequence of their policies.

So liberals want to create housing for the homeless, because they cannot bring themselves to understand that people with broken lives, issuing from liberal policies, are blotting life out with drugs.

Obviously nothing can be done while our liberal friends are the ruling class, because they cannot see, will not see, that all these problems are a direct consequence of the wise and evolved policies that they have legislated and administered over the last century and more.