Christianity: “Go and make disciples of all nations.”
Judaism: “Be a holy people who embody God’s covenant, so the nations see His righteousness.”
Islam: “Conquer and kill the infidels.”
It’s not complicated to figure out which two are aligned and which one isn’t compatible with the western world.
America’s ruling class has performed another miracle.
They took the most basic truths in human civilization ... crime needs punishment, borders need enforcement, schools should teach, welfare should be temporary, families matter, merit matters, and taxpayers should not be looted by professional parasites ... and somehow rebranded all of that as “extremism.”
Incredible work, really.
Apparently, a “compassionate” society is one where the violent repeat offender gets another chance, the victim gets a candlelight vigil, the taxpayer gets the bill, the schoolkid gets passed along illiterate, the fraudster gets a grant, the NGO gets another contract, the illegal alien gets services, and the working American gets told to shut up and be more inclusive.
What a beautiful system.
Soft justice did not stay in the courtroom. It metastasized. It became soft borders, soft schools, soft parenting, soft welfare, soft standards, soft men, and soft bureaucrats explaining why every obvious solution is “too harsh.”
Lock up predators? Cruel.
Deport illegals? Hateful.
End generational welfare? Lacking empathy.
Punish fraud? Complicated.
Restore merit? Problematic.
Teach kids to read? Probably colonialism by Tuesday.
A serious country protects the innocent from the guilty. A decaying country protects the guilty from consequences and makes the innocent finance the experiment.
That’s America’s real crisis.
Not poverty. Not “root causes.” Not another fake expert panel.
Consequences.
We stopped imposing them on the people destroying the country, so now the country imposes them on everyone else.
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Sir, I have some expertise in Senate rules and precedent. In fact, at one time you were one of a dozen senators who paid me for that.
The talking filibuster will work.
Senators who refuse to do this to pass the SAVE America Act are the ones demoralizing their own base.
@BIG_PARMENIDES Just before I turned 49, my wife and I adopted a sibling group of 3. Two years later, another girl. Best decision ever. Be a good father. Be there. Love them. Nothing better in life.
@McFaul Just like the race card, this, too, means nothing. We are now better informed. You and your friends destroyed all norms to steal our nation's treasury to ensure you had a new bloc of voters to enact your destructive agenda. So now sod off, communist.
@KBAndersen Things that are now temporary: unfrozen ice cream, a clean car with birds about, and Haitian freeloaders using Temporary Protected Status to milk our country dry of mercy.
By the way, no one believes you. Cope!
@RepAdamSmith It really is obnoxious how you pretend not to know what temporary means. And the fact that nearly every “Haitian” has citizenship in Brazil or some other South American country.