This offering was inspired by an observation made by Greg Gutfeld on a recent show.  Gutfeld pointed out the logical inconsistency between socialist rhetoric and socialist policies.  More specifically, he noted that socialists espouse positions that result in chaos and death, and then call them “compassionate.”

For instance, new New York City Mayor Mamdani, a proud socialist, in his inaugural address promised that New Yorkers would be comforted by “the warmth of collectivism.”  As part of his collectivist agenda, Mamdani decided that, unlike his predecessors, he would not to interfere with homeless encampments on the streets of the City, by moving the homeless to shelters during cold weather.  This decision was hailed as a demonstration of his respect and “compassion” for what leftists like to call “the unhoused community.”

Thus, in the same City where Democrats tell us that illegal aliens have a right to free housing, the Mayor, as a sign of his socialist enlightenment, left the homeless on the streets in January.  Unfortunately, “the warmth of collectivism” was no match for Mother Nature.  As temperatures plunged into the single digits for weeks at a time, and a foot of snow fell, the homeless huddled on the streets.  When the storm was over, the bodies of 16 homeless people, victims of hypothermia, were collected off the sidewalks.

There was no media outcry over these deaths.  In truth, because a socialist Democrat is now in charge, there is no mention of homelessness at all by the media, such outrage being reserved for conservative officials alone.  And there’s the paradox.  In order to be compassionate, a socialist is required to withhold official action to protect citizens, in order to exhibit respect for their choice.  And if such exhibition results in deaths, so be it.

As Gutfeld put it, the socialist must accept death in service of ideology.  Sadly true, and this put me in mind of Josef Stalin’s famous quotation, “The death of one person is a tragedy, but one million deaths are only a statistic.”  Each of the roughly 100 million people killed by socialist/communists in the past century could attest to this philosophy.

And the New York homeless problem is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ridiculous, illogical, and dangerous lengths that those who fancy themselves “progressive” are willing to go to exhibit their perverted view of “compassion.”

In their world, permitting men to compete in women’s sports, is necessary to  show compassion for transgender people.  If this results in female athletes with shattered dreams, or shattered bones, so be it.  Advocating for children to be surgically mutilated and ruined for life likewise exhibits support for transgenderism.  The maimed children are just collateral damage.

The protests against ICE operations to deport illegal aliens is another example.  Compassion for “undocumented migrants” must be shown at any cost.  The facts that ICE is removing murderers and child molesters from our midst, and that ICE has recovered 147,000 missing children are irrelevant.  Attention must be paid to “our neighbors” in “the migrant community.”  And if scores of Americans have to be beaten, raped or murdered to serve that ideology, it’s just the price they have to pay.

I say the price “they” have to pay because the most vocal and influential socialists who engage in such virtue signalling are never the ones who have to pay the price.  The elected socialists don’t have to experience the consequences of their programs.  The Hollywood assholes who go on awards shows wearing their ICE OUT buttons are safe behind their gates, protected by bodyguards.

Socialist policies don’t have to make sense, and few of them do.  What sane person would protest the enforcement of laws?  Socialists do.  They vote for prosecutors who promise not to prosecute criminals. They resist and denounce the use of federal law enforcement that has reduced street crime to its lowest levels in a century.

They constantly rant about “our democracy,” “civil society,” and nonsense like “it takes a village,” while at the same time supporting policies guaranteed to end democracy, and destroy any semblance of civil society.  They do this  because that’s their plan.  There’s an element among dedicated socialists who want to bring about the collapse of our form of government, to be replaced with the socialist workers’ paradise that led to the deaths of the 100 million victims mentioned above.

Their mindless resistance to the enforcement of immigration laws, among them, one signed by Bill Clinton, which limited or more specifically, removed the jurisdiction of the review from the District Courts jurisdiction over reviews of deportation decisions made by immigration authorities, has been flaunted and ignored by meddlesome, activist judges, who need to be put in their place by higher courts.

The violent protests going on in Minnesota, Portland, Los Angeles, and other cities serve multiple purposes.  They stir up resistance by foolish protestors, and stoked by leftist elected officials, endeavor to protest and forestall the exposure of massive fraud in government programs which have helped to balloon our massive debt, and are, in fact, a manifestation of sheer desperation by Democrats, who are pulling out all the stops to retain their grip on power.

The fact is that the deportations of millions of illegal aliens, both by the government and by the decisions of aliens to return to their countries voluntarily, the very issue that propelled Trump back into office, threatens to deprive Democrats of the House seats, and thus the electoral votes that they need to remain in control.

The fact that their resistance, and indeed their refusal to acknowledge and submit to the supremacy of federal law as it pertains to immigration, defies the Constitution that all of them swore to uphold makes no difference to them.  As I said, they never pay, only you do.  They are willing to defy the will of the American electorate in their sheer lust for power.

That’s really what’s fueling all the tumult they are fomenting.  More about that next week.  In the mean time, Trump and ICE are defusing the situation in Minnesota by drawing down the ICE presence in Minnesota.  Democrats are portraying this draw down as a victory for their position.

It’s not.  Fewer ICE forces are needed in Minnesota only because Tom Homan is getting unprecedented support from local officials in that State.  By turning over illegals who have warrants of removal and who are in local jails and prisons, ICE can use one officer to take each of these people into custody, instead of a team of 12 or more agents to forcibly remove them.  It’s the Minnesota officials who have blinked, not ICE.

But don’t get complacent.  There’s a two week truce in effect, while Congress discusses possible changes to immigration laws.  Once that time expires, we’ll be right back to confrontation and another government shut down.  Stay tuned.