Progressives are again blinded by their view from the Ivory Tower
It’s been sixteen years since What’s the Matter with Kansas? was released; yet, academic Marxists are making the exact same mistake with another key constituency; African-Americans. This being America, blacks are getting the worst of it, of course; Soros-supporters never tried to burn Kansas to the ground. Instead, they just talk down their noses to us at every opportunity (see, e.g., Seth McFarlane, Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel, literally anyone else in Hollywood/New York).
To white progressives, the issue is simple: Trump. He’s the bogeyman; take him out, and all their problems will go away. On this, blacks and white progressive have had common ground. Trump is racist, and his policies go against those supported by black leaders and the civil rights movement. However, common ground isn’t a common raison d’etre. Getting rid of Trump won’t get rid of the problems facing the African-American communities across the country any more than their problems went away with the election of Obama.
-Steve Carell’s real-life logic is somehow stupider than Michael Scott’s.
‘The Squad’ doesn’t care about local concerns; local concerns kill blacks
It wasn’t Donald Trump who knelt on George Floyd’s neck; it was Derek Chauvin. I’m sure we’ll be hearing plenty about the details of this case in the coming month, and that’s the point. At the end of the day, George Floyd’s death was the cause of a local individual, who may well have known Floyd, making the individual decision to kneel on a man’s neck for ten minutes. The solution isn’t banning Trump from Twitter, checking ‘white privilege’, or acknowledging the micro-aggressions blacks face from systemic racism. The solution is not having officers on the force who are as irresponsible as the three on the video. That doesn’t happen when local, progressive officials are so focused on saving the world that they ignore what’s going on in their own communities.
Nationalization = Neglect
Take a look at The Squad ™’s agenda following their election. Other than AOC costing her district jobs (because work=oppression, #fightthesystem), they have purely been focused on getting progressives elected at more local levels of government and shunning Bernie for not being progressive enough to reject an endorsement from a man who thinks that men should fight men and not women.
These progressive activists are most successful in urban districts, including black districts, where they use racial anger, coupled with the fact that blacks CAN’T vote for Trump/GOPers, to push progressive candidates into office, often replacing long-time, moderate Democrats. Once elected, these college-kid SJWs don’t want to deal with ‘little things’ like complicated, local politics; they want to save the world. This involves pushing policies involving LGBT and immigrant rights, as well as confrontational, anti-cop policies. This is what they care about, and if they want to advance, they need to establish their progressive credentials.
Anti-Cop rhetoric escalates tensions
To make matters worse, part of the progressive ideological pissing contest involves being as anti-cop, and anti-American, as possible. It’s no accident these protesters are burning our flags and disrespecting our anthem. Black people don’t get killed by cops because of a ‘culture of racism’; they get killed by cops because of racial tensions and a culture of distrust between police and the black communities they police. Trying to overcome this distrust by attacking, rhetorically and literally, the police seems like a bizarre strategy (though it makes for a nice tweet).
Finally, anyone with half a brain can tell you that animals (which humans are) are at their most dangerous when backed into a corner. How do you think these cops feel policing a community that hates them and reporting to elected officials who side with those throwing Molotov cocktails? These cops aren’t unaccountable because of Trump; the President has nothing to do with managing street cops. They’re unaccountable because they have nobody in local government they can trust or work with. All the local officials are too busy coming up with their next anti-Trump tweet.
Academics: Too smart for their own good?
Of course, this satisfies the W of SJW, which is all these college-kid progressives wanted – to FEEL like they made a difference. Meanwhile, they can’t see that they, coming into black neighborhoods to spray paint FUCK TRUMP on some old black lady’s house and beat the local white guy to death before returning to Palo Alto, are the real problem. After all, they canceled Kanye and they voted for Hillary; they aren’t the problem, so if they want to call the cops on a bird-watcher every now and then, well, that’s their ‘white privilege’.