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In their war on America, the Left weaponized vagrants

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The Left pretends to pity the plight of the people we used to call “vagrants” but are now required to call “homeless.” Their numbers keep growing – despite the fact that we keep throwing money at them and giving them free housing, free meals and other free stuff.

Let’s stop right there. That last sentence, expressed as I just expressed it, is easily recognized as a “Fox Butterfield.” He was a New York Times columnist who expressed puzzlement at the “paradox” that more criminals were being sentenced to prison even though crime was down.

After years of being puzzled by this paradox that he perceived, Butterfield finally acknowledged that he had confused the cause with the effect. It’s not that fewer crimes had caused more criminals to be sent to prison. That would indeed be a paradox. Rather, it was that more criminals being in prison had caused fewer crimes to be committed.   

Butterfield thus unwittingly gave his name to a comedic bit of mis-rhetoric and illogic. A “Fox Butterfield” is a statement expressing puzzlement because it confuses causes and effects. The true cause and effect are apparent to most people – but not to the person making the Fox Butterfield statement, because it is contrary to his belief system.

Something similar is at work in the issue of vagrants (which is not a four-letter word, by the way, and maybe that’s the reason Democrats don’t like it).

The Left pretends puzzlement about the apparent paradox that giving free stuff to vagrants for the purpose of escaping their vagrancy seems to produce more vagrancy, not less. If vagrancy is caused by vagrants losing their stuff, then shouldn’t it be remedied by giving them free stuff to replace what they lost?

Ah, but any person without a preconceived belief system sympathetic to vagrancy knows that it isn’t caused by losing one’s stuff. Rather, it’s caused by losing one’s mind. Usually to drugs, insanity or both. And so, it’s not a paradox that giving free stuff to vagrants fails to remedy their vagrancy – their minds, after all, are still missing in action.

In fact, giving free stuff to vagrants not only fails to help them, it actively hurts them. It enables them to continue their vagrancy.   

That’s what has happened in America over the last generation. Camping on the sidewalk and pooping in the gutter used to be against the law. It still is, but the Democrat mayors of big cities decided to break their oaths of office by allowing it anyway – and to reward the lawbreakers with free stuff for doing so.

Sure enough, but contrary to Democrat expectations borne of their erroneous belief system, the result was more sidewalk camping and gutter pooping, not less.

Contrast this with big cities in the rest of the world. Most are poorer than American cities, and in Europe they tend to be at least as Leftist as in America. But you seldom see vagrants. They’re simply not allowed.

Why did the Democrats choose to enable vagrancy in America?

Two reasons. First, many Democrats mistakenly thought it was the humane thing to do. In their erroneous belief system, they believed that vagrants are just like you and me, except they’ve had a bit of bad luck. They’ve lost their job through no fault of their own, but because of . . . you know . . . capitalism.  All that these unfortunates need, these Democrats believe, is a helping hand. And if we don’t give them that helping hand, they could well starve to death.

These beliefs are wrong in so many ways. Vagrants are nothing like you and me. They didn’t just lose their job; they’re almost all drug addicts or alcoholics or mentally ill or some combination thereof. A helping hand does not help them; it enables their misery and lets them inflict it on the rest of us. They won’t starve to death; nobody starves to death in America other than people who are literally too messed up to put into their mouths the food that is offered.

Thus, the first reason that Democrats enable vagrancy is simple ignorance on their part.

But the second reason is more sinister. Many Democrats enable vagrancy for the same reason they abolish the nation’s borders, decry merit as racist, preach that work is evil, undermine the family, mock religion, and tell us there are 72 genders.

It’s the same reason they want to cancel Sydney Sweeney for being too feminine and too white, neuter Bud Light for being too masculine and too redneck, and bury the Cracker Barrel logo for being too American.

It’s all because they loath America, Americans and Americana. Failing to destroy America militarily in two World Wars and one Cold War, they are now resigned to destroying her with a culture war from within. Indeed, surveys confirm that the defining trait of Democrats is their ambivalence (at best) for America.  

Many of these Democrats don’t want to help the American poor as much as they want to hurt the American “rich” – defined as everyone who has more money than they do. They would prefer a nuclear Armageddon destroying everyone over a prosperous economy lifting both rich and poor.

Of course, if they were to get their wish for Armageddon, they’d hate that too. They hate wherever they are and whomever they’re with.

They have no country, no religion, no gender, no history, no traditions, no happiness, and they disbelieve in family. You might generously call these sorrowful souls “homeless.”

Which President looks like the leader of the free world?

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President Trump and NATO leaders at the White House, Aug. 18, and President Biden and NATO leaders at G7 summit in 2024

Vladimir Putin confirmed last week at their Alaska summit that if Donald Trump had been president three years ago, Russia would not have invaded Ukraine.

It was probably an attempt at flattery (which Trump did not acknowledge) but, still, it’s probably true. Even if it’s pure flattery, I cannot imagine Putin bothering to bestow such flattery on Trump’s predecessor.

 At this same summit, Trump ordered a flyby of a B2 bomber – the ones that recently made a significant impression on the world, on Iran, and on Iran’s desert nuke factories.

After the summit, the leaders of NATO rushed to the White House to meet with the President. Seems the tariff imbroglio is all forgiven. Ukrainian President Zelenski showed up wearing something suit-ish. Trump called out “Emmanuel!” to French President Emmanuel Macron, who answered “Mr. President?”

Speaking with one voice – Trump’s – the leaders of the free world declared a desire for peace but made clear that they would not toss Ukraine under the Russian tanks. In fact, they hinted at NATO membership for Ukraine.

Sure, Russia will get some potato farms in Eastern Ukraine, and Putin will save face with his people (after slaughtering a quarter million of them) but Ukraine will survive, NATO will thrive, Europe will be strong, and America . . .

Well, America is back.

Democrat betas think the F word will make them alphas

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There’s a Democrat in Texas (yes, really!) who lost a race for senator, and then lost a race for governor. He’s a designated loser.

His name is Robert but he has a nickname. Since he’s proven himself not exactly an Alpha, you might assume his nickname is “Beta.”

Close. It’s “Beto.” Beto has a lot more in common with “Beta” than with “Rambo.”   

Beto/Beta attended elite private boarding schools and then Columbia where he took a degree in English Literature. It was probably Shakespeare that taught him not to be.

But Beto/Beta has a strategy to show his toughness and finally rise to leader of the pack. He says the F word. A lot.

When he lost the senate race, he informed his supporters, “I’m so f***ing proud of you!” He and his supporters promptly regrouped and went on to lose the gubernatorial race.

Offering incisive commentary on Donald Trump, he exclaimed, “What the f***?” Significantly, the object of his invective is now President; Beto/Beta is not.

His brave response to a mass shooting was, “This is f***ed up.” Shooters everywhere scurried.

His recent legal argument in opposition to the Texas rules requiring state legislators to, well, legislate rather than flee the jurisdiction, was, “F*** the rules!” The Democrat lawbreaking lawmakers caved yesterday. Beto/Beta fought the rules, and the rules won.

Other Dems have joined the f-fest. New York Senator Charles Schumer, formerly the Senate Majority Leader and one of the most powerful people in D.C., at least on paper, was asked whether the National Guard would be permitted to keep the peace in D.C. beyond just 30 days.

“No f***ing way” was his response. (But Schumer is already checkmated. Crime will be down during this 30-day period. At the end of the 30 days, Dems will then be in the position of saying they want it to go back up.)

Dems always had potty mouths – LBJ cursed like a Texas roughneck – but the election of Trump really unhinged them. They’re angry and frustrated. Turns out that advocating crime, boys in the girls’ bathrooms, racial quotas and open borders didn’t go over as well as they anticipated.

So . . . drop the f-bombs!

A Dem in New York who says he’s a “former journalist” (of course, there’s no such thing as a current journalist – they’re all former ones) has started a campaign to unseat a Republican Congressman with the erudite slogan “Unf*** our country!” That’s typical of journalistic eruditeness these days.

Another “former journalist” Dem running for Congress – this one a woman – declared in a video clip she posted on X that it was time for the Dems to, “Grow a f***cking spine.” How endearing. They even put the F word into their teleprompter speeches

Back when these potty mouths were future former journalists, I’m sure they were very careful never to let their political leanings get in the way of objective reporting. Uh huh.

A sitting Democrat Congresswoman began with a confession: “I don’t swear in public very well” and then showed that her inability is surely not for lack of practice in declaring, “We have to f*** Trump.”

Lady, who you calling “we”?

Another sitting Congresswoman ejaculated on live TV, “Somebody slap me, and wake me the fuck up!” As for her second request, she seems plenty woke already. But I’d be happy to fulfill her first request.

So, why are Democrats spouting the F word as eagerly as fourth graders who just learned it?

Several reasons. First, they’ve always been just a step from the gutter. While conservative intellectuals like William F. Buckley, Milton Freidman and Thomas Sowell were slicing and dicing the Democrats so eloquently they didn’t know they’d been filleted until they saw their guts on the floor, the mob and their molls were infiltrating the JFK White House and the rest of the Democrat machine, from Chicago to Philly to San Francisco.

It’s all about raw physical power. The Democrats’ idea of intellectual debate for two generations has been, “Nice argument you got there, be a shame if something happened to you.”

Second, the Democrats truly are angry. They’ve lost the White House, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, most state legislatures, most governorships, their lunch money, and their cookies. They’ve lost it all to people they hate, and, in their ignorance, despise and disrespect.

When people get angry, they often get profane. It feels good to express anger.

Third, much of the Dem f-bombing is to rally their filthy f***ed up base. They’re making a show of uncontrolled anger – in a controlled, manipulative sort of way.

This manipulative f-bombing does indeed rally the filthy Dem base, but that base is already rallied. They always are. They wouldn’t be filthy f***ed up Democrats if they weren’t on Adderall.  

It’s the middle-of-the-roaders that the Dems need to rally. Those middle-of-the-roaders who decide elections are not paying much attention (that’s why they’re middle-of-the-roaders) but they don’t like hearing government would-be leaders shouting words that they would not let their children hear or speak.

So, bring it on, Democrats. See if you can f*** your way back into f***ing control of the f***ing government.

An alternative approach might be to change your language, change your tone and change your policies. Nah, f*** that!

Democrats sacrificed socialism on the altar of cultural wokeness – thank goodness

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Here’s a thought experiment. First, picture Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and other communist despots of the 20th century. (I could add to that list the head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, but I don’t want emails purporting to correct me.)

Now imagine if part of their pitch to the public had been the following:

  • Men pretending to be women should compete against women in women’s sports, and, after the women lose to the men, they should be forced to shower with them;
  • People should be judged not on their merit or even their economic class, but on their skin color, and, moreover, those with skin colors who commit murder at 7x the ordinary rate should be judged more favorably;
  • Gay people should get preferences in admissions and hiring;
  • We should abolish our national borders;
  • Boys having adolescence issues should be called “girls” and have their penises cut off; and
  • Criminal laws are illegitimate.

If Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot and the other communists had preached such nonsense, the result would have been fantastic. Because they never would have come to power. And so we would have avoided 100,000,000 deaths caused by communism.

Fast forward to today. In an incredibly lucky twist of fate, would-be socialists and communists calling themselves Democrats over the past two decades did pitch that nonsense.

Enough people paid attention and recognized it as the nonsense that it was, that the Democrats were finally voted out of power.

Yes, there was also the matter of their latest leader and his senility, corruption and incompetence. But in the absence of their culturally woke nonsense, the Democrats/socialists/communists probably would have overcome the drag of their bad leader. They probably would have won the last election, and we’d be well down the road to lethal, ruinous economics.

That’s because socialism polls surprisingly well. Although people understand that men in drag should not beat and shower with women, they understand basic economics less well.

Among young voters especially, there’s a convenient tendency to believe that the reason they aren’t as wealthy as they’d like is because rich people are stealing their money.

Many young people believe this because they’ve never heard of Marx, Lenin, Mao, or Pol Pot, or the destruction and misery they inflicted. That’s no surprise, for their “teachers” are mostly (not all, fortunately) socialists themselves.

Democrats are now at a crossroads. One road is the one they’re on – the road of socialism in combination with woke cultural issues. The other road lets go of the woke cultural issues while continuing the socialism.

It’s common wisdom, at least outside the fever swamps of academia, that the Democrats need to take the road away from woke cultural issues if they want to win elections. To win elections, they should focus on socialism, not rainbows and bathrooms.

I am praying they don’t take that advice. I’m praying they keep losing elections by staying on the road of woke cultural issues in combination with socialism. If they’ll just stay the course, the story of the 21st century might be the 100,000,000 lives that we didn’t lose to communism.