Police and Thieves in the Streets

Runaway crime in America underscores need for reform.

“Washington DC, Saturday June 11, 2022. Thousands rallied here today on the National Mall near the Washington Monument for the second March For Our Lives to protest the the ongoing mass shootings that have become a sad fact of life in our Country for decades.” Gun violence is one of the many crime statistics ticking upward. (photo: Stephen Melkisethian)

One of the problems besetting the idealogical left is that some Bernie Sanders-supporting progressives aren’t really interested in getting political; not really.

They aren’t organizing on behalf of a political party. They are in fact organizing against it. They are political anarchists at heart.

The problem with these idealogical anarchists, is that, like the hard-left progressive movements of the past, they are much more concerned with burning it all down than starting over.

The French Revolutionaries went from calling themselves the “Committee of Public Safety,” to, “The Reign of Terror,” in under a year. Once they toppled the monarchy, however- and the aristocracy, and the landed gentry, and the upwardly-mobile wealthy merchant class- the successful coup d’état planners didn’t have a better system to replace the one they despised.

Today, the difference between rich and poor, the abysmal wealth gap, in France is every bit as bad as in Great Britain, where the monarchy remained relatively intact. The French Revolution might just as well never have happened.

The Bolsheviks in Russia did the Russian people a similar disservice when it executed the entire royal Romanov family down to the children.