Trump is right to focus on stopping the barbarians at the gates of civilization

Washington Post:

Trump stokes a culture war as his Twitter feed focuses on vandalism

The president — who has shown less public interest in police reform, the coronavirus and even the economic recovery in recent weeks — has been highlighting vandalism by protesters and the well-being of targeted statues.

Democrats probably think the barbarians they now support are useful idiots, but they actually destructive barbarians who should be defeated totally.  They are leaving Democrat-controlled cities in ruins and making it a less safe place for minorities.

Thomas Sowell correctly analyzes the situation.

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Leftists claim they’re tearing down statues and burning down black neighborhoods to fight “systemic racism.”

In reality, Sowell says today’s leftists are clueless simpletons who are chasing their own tails because they have “no idea” what they’re talking about.

“For example, one of the things I came across in writing a previous book was the poverty rate between blacks and whites,” Sowell recounted. “If I remember the numbers correctly, something like 22% of blacks were in poverty while 11% of whites were in poverty. They’re like ‘Well, that shows the racism.’”

Sowell countered that the poverty rate is actually 7.5% among black married couples. “In other words, they [black married couples] not only have a lower poverty rate than blacks as a whole, they have a lower poverty rate than whites as a whole,” he explained.

Thomas Sowell says today’s leftists were unwittingly brainwashed from childhood because of the left-wing leanings of American public schools.

“They hear the same [left-wing] narrative and are not taught how to test things against facts.

They’re just taught to repeat these slogans. And when you try to talk to them in terms of FACTS, they think that you’re trying to confuse them.”

It’s the same thing with how leftists and their media minions repeatedly stoke resentment among black Americans over slavery. They act like slavery was solely an American institution and that the United States introduced black slavery to the world.

In reality, slavery existed on every continent in the world for centuries before it came to America. Every race was enslaved at some point; slavery is not an experience that is unique to black Americans.

Yet black Americans and patronizing white leftists incessantly howl about an institution that a white Republican president ended 155 years ago.

To this day, black slavery exists in many Muslim and African countries around the world. But there’s no left-wing outrage or media hysteria over the actual systemic racism against blacks in the Middle East or Africa. Why?

Sowell explained: “Because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained.”
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Democrats are responsible for this brainwashing along with the media.  Right now they are siding with the barbarians instead of civilization.

Trump is right to stand up for civilization and he should make that the main issue of his campaign this time.