This week, we'll get to watch the Democratic Party get on stage in Chicago and tell you America is unfair. That it's systemically racist, oppressive to the poor, and a terrible place to live unless we elect them.
Doing so, naturally, will bring equality -- sorry, equity -- and justice to the grand old U.S. of A.
(They'll ignore that Biden-Harris have run the country for the last 3.5 years, but I digress.)
Except life is unfair. It always has been and always will be. The Founders knew this, which is why in the Declaration of Independence, they list the pursuit of happiness and not simply 'happiness.'
It's also why the Constitution was meant to protect people from the government choosing winners and losers when it comes to rights. The Constitution is the great equalizer, if only we'd follow it.
So when a friend sent this post to me, the mentality here was appalling but not surprising.
Can stealing from the stealing claw machine still be considered stealing? pic.twitter.com/DWHNjd1S9S
— Dr. Simon Goddek (@goddeketal) August 19, 2024
Read the comments: 'claw machines are rigged, therefore stealing from them is morally justified.'
No. No it's not. This is Left-wing, communistic thinking. And it's endemic within the DNC.
Lucky for us, we'll get to see it at full bore in Chicago this week.
This is the same mentality that makes Kamala Harris say things like we need 'equity' in the distribution of disaster aid. Or this gem:
Kamala Harris proposes a regime of "equity" based on a simple principle: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. This should sound familiar.pic.twitter.com/PO6vUSrJ5m
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 25, 2024
America has been so unfair and discriminatory to Blacks and women and the LGBTQ+ community that the only solution is to now be unfair and discriminatory towards Whites, men, and anyone not part of the sexual alphabet soup. Because equality. Sorry. Equity.
The former is always cast as immoral, an injustice, and wrong. Doesn't matter if it happened yesterday or 150 years ago. The latter? Well, that's just what being 'woke' and 'progressive' means, and we're morally justified in doing so.
I remember distinctly during the run up to the Iraq War a lot of Lefties liked to argue the notion of 'an eye for an eye makes the world blind.'
True. However, this also applies when pretending the response to something that's unfair or unjust is more unfairness or injustice, but with the correct political favor added to it.
The claw machine thievery is really a microcosm of what Kamala's policies will do to you, and -- unlike the claw machines -- you don't have to actually be rigged to be placed in the target of her equity regime.
If you make more money than your neighbor, drive a nicer car, live in a nicer house the Left believes you have those things not because you earned them through hard work, sacrifice, and planning. They think you're like the claw machine: part of a rigged system. Whether because of your race or your gender or your sexual orientation, you only got to where you are because the 'system' gave you an advantage of some kind. Reality doesn't matter.
And because you have an 'unfair' advantage, they have the right -- nay, the moral obligation -- to take what's yours and give it to whoever they deem fit while feeling justified in doing so.
The socialists did this all the time. When there were the inevitable food shortages, they sowed discord amongst neighbors: you don't have enough to eat because your neighbor is hoarding food. It justified confiscating what little the neighbor had and kept people at loggerheads with one another.
Contemporary Democrats tell their voters they're poor because their neighbor took a bigger piece of the pie, and not because the neighbor worked to make a bigger pie. 'Elect us,' the Democrats say, 'and we'll take away some of your neighbor's pie and give it you you.'
J.D. Vance grew up dirt poor in Appalachia and made his way to Yale before becoming the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. And guys like Tim Walz, the supposed defenders of the poor and downtrodden? They act like Vance only got there because he's white and a man. Naturally, the only way to combat this is to make sure white men (or whatever the disfavored group du jour happens to be) is denied those opportunities.
In the name of 'fairness', of course.
And as they do this -- as they steal from the proverbial claw machine -- they think they have the moral high ground. Because the system is rigged, continuing to rig the system is not only moral but justified.
It isn't, and never was.
