The Dems displaced compassion

 Kirsten Fleming:

Compassion is killing us.

It’s ripping out our very soul as a nation — wreaking havoc on our once great cities, our safety and our way of life.

Not the necessary kind of compassion that is touted in various religious scriptures, of course. This is the cynical variety that is wielded as a political cudgel by the left. It’s the very foundation of their agendas: soft-on-crime policies; come one, come all open borders; a seeming willingness to let drug addicts rot in the streets.

After a few years of these measures, we’re in one fine, self-inflicted mess.

Migrants are overwhelming New York City, and Big Apple residents are being advised to carry Narcan to revive random strangers overdosing on the street. Across the country, big-box retailers are closing up shop because, despite living in the age of surveillance, we somehow can’t figure out how to combat rampant shoplifting.

Our cities’ progressive overlords want to radically change the country under the guise of offering endless grace, humanity and empathy to those they view as living on the margins of society. And they brand anyone with common-sense objections to these bad policies as bigots of the highest order.

But the consequences are landing hard and fast for all of us.

Take Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, one of the main pushers of the philosophies that have led to urban destruction. In 2020, she defended looters and shoplifters as downtrodden, poverty-stricken folks simply trying to put scraps on the table.

“So they go out and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money. They are put in a position where they feel like they need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night,” the New York Congresswoman said in a 2020 town-hall video that’s made the rounds again this week in the wake of the lootings in Philadelphia.

To no one’s surprise, these false Robin Hood narratives — sympathies offered to the criminal class — have only emboldened thieves. Who is going to follow the rules when there are no repercussions?

Law breakers know they will get away with it because prosecution-averse DAs like Philadelphia’s Larry Krasner and Manhattan’s Alvin Bragg openly stopped taking on low level crimes.

Contrary to AOC’s offerings, looters are not quietly swiping the essentials to build a nourishing meatloaf, as we saw in the City of Brotherly Love this week — where thieves stormed stores like Apple and Lululemon for expensive tech, designer goods and booze.

They rolled through like a category five hurricane, leaving the shops looking like a FEMA case. After all, both destruction and greed are the point.
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Ironically, there is little real compassion offered to the families of people murdered or assaulted by violent criminals let back out on the streets.
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The liberal response to crime has been a disaster for the cities they dominate.  Criminals in those cities are stealing with near impunity and impoverishing merchants or their insurance companies.  The way to stop crime is to incarcerate the criminals to the point that they do not want to go back to their old way of making a living.  Not doing so hurts the community.