New spin on Ferguson coming out - blame failed Democrat policies

[mosquitobite]

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385518/who-lost-cities-kevin-d-williamson

When life is reduced to the terms in which it is lived in the poorest and most neglected parts of Chicago or Detroit, the welfare state is the police state. Why should we expect the agents of the government who carry guns and badges to be in general better behaved than those at the IRS or the National Labor Relations Board? We have city councils that conduct their affairs in convenient secrecy and put their own interests above those of the communities that they allege to serve, and yet we naïvely think that when that self-serving process is used to hire a police commissioner or to organize a police department, then we’ll get saints and Einsteins out of all that muck.

 

[Schifference]

I like what he says!

 

[mosquitobite]

It's a way to turn Rand's Op-Ed into homerun material, in my opinion.

 

[AuH20]

But it's been bipartisan treachery.

http://mises.org/econsense/ch21.asp

From the beginning, each new creative Leap Forward in the welfare state is launched by liberals in the Democratic Party. That, since the 1930s, has been the Democrats' historical function. The Republicans' function, on the other hand, has been to complain about the welfare state and then, when in power, to fasten their yoke upon the public by not only retaining the Democratic "advances" but also by expanding them.

Liberal Democrats, who now call themselves "moderates" because of the perceived failures of liberalism, have come up with the usual "solutions": redoubled and massive federal spending to "help" the inner cities, "rebuilding" the decaying infrastructure, helping to make declining industries "competitive," et al. But whereas Republican administrations in the 1950s and 1970s were in the hands of avowed "moderates" or "liberals", the Republican administration is now run, or at least guided by, conservatives.

What is the "conservative" (read: neoconservative) Republican response to the welfare state and to the Democratic proposals for yet another great Leap Forward?

The good news is that the neoconservative alternative is not just another "me-too" proposal for slightly less of what the Democratic liberals are proposing. The bad news, however, is that the proposed "conservative welfare state"--rain the words of neocon godfather Irving Kristol--is a lot worse. For once, under the aegis of the neocons, the Republicans are coming up with genuinely innovative proposals.

But that's the trouble: the result is far more power and more resources to the Leviathan State in Washington, all camouflaged in pseudo-conservative rhetoric. Since the conservative public always tends to put more emphasis on rhetoric than on substance, this makes the looming Alternative Welfare State of the Republicans all the more dangerous.

Harry Hopkins is supposed to have outlined the basic New Deal Strategy: "We shall tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect." He might have added: control and control. Over the decades, the outer forms, the glittering trappings, have changed in order to entice new generations of suckers. But the essence of the ever-expanding Leviathan has remained the same.

 

[Madison320]

But it's been bipartisan treachery.

http://mises.org/econsense/ch21.asp

Also the republicans are mainly responsible for the war on drugs which has played a huge role in screwing up black neighborhoods.