{"id":53149,"date":"2020-08-25T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrats-are-pretending-the-cities-arent-burning\/"},"modified":"2020-08-25T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T00:20:00","slug":"democrats-are-pretending-the-cities-arent-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-are-pretending-the-cities-arent-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrats are pretending the cities aren\u2019t burning"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Democrats are pretending the cities aren\u2019t burning<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n The Democratic convention portrayed an America suffering from every possible sort of malady \u2014 except urban \u00adunrest.<\/p>\n

Is the country going through a terrible pandemic? Yes. A punishing recession? Absolutely. Is our democratic system itself under threat? Of course. Is the planet about to be destroyed by inaction on climate change? Check. Are systemic racism, income inequality and corporate greed blighting our national life? Most definitely.<\/p>\n

The Democrats put an accent on every disturbing development during the Trump years, but not on the disorder that has caused countless millions in property damage, killed and injured innocent people and contributed to rising lawlessness in cities around the country.<\/p>\n

About that, they maintained a discreet silence.<\/p>\n

Across four nights and eight hours of programming, no one mentioned it \u2014 not the community activists, not the mayors or governors, not the former presidents and first ladies, and emphatically not the party\u2019s current nominees for president and vice president.<\/p>\n

As far as the Democrats were concerned, recent events that have had a profound effect on \u00adurban communities \u2014 places \u00adalmost uniformly governed by Democratic mayors \u2014 simply never happ<\/a>ened.<\/p>\n

The Biden campaign surely doesn\u2019t want to risk a discouraging word about anyone marching under the banner of Black Lives Matter for fear of alienating African-American voters. Yet the convention\u2019s portrayal of the protests seemed quite sincere.<\/p>\n

The left\u2019s narrative is that the George Floyd protests have, with very few exceptions, been peaceful and above reproach, and only haters could think otherwise. This abiding belief is impervious to all evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n

There have been riots in Minneapolis, New York City, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Seattle, among other cities. Just a couple of weeks ago, looters ransacked stores in Chicago, and violent nightly riots by radicals are now part of the urban identity of Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

You would think that Democrats would want, merely as a matter of political cover, to make some nod toward denouncing this violence and disassociating their cause from it. Even during a week when they were remembering the work of John Lewis, an inspiring and courageous devotee of nonviolence, they couldn\u2019t bring themselves to do it.<\/p>\n

Instead, their alternate reality reigned. Waving the bloody shirt of the clearing of Lafayette Park prior to a Trump photo-op in front of St. John\u2019s Church, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser declared that \u201cit was here that, just weeks ago, Americans donned face masks and safely and peacefully protested the death of \u00adGeorge Floyd. But while we were peacefully protesting, Donald Trump was plotting.\u201d<\/p>\n

The truthfulness of this statement depends on the mayor\u2019s definition of \u201cwe\u201d and of \u201cpeaceful,\u201d since it\u2019s a matter of record that protesters set a fire, including at the historic church, and threw projectiles at riot forces. (Peaceful protesters do the damndest things.)<\/p>\n

In the wake of all the not-so-peaceful protests, cities have experienced spikes in shootings. This, too, would seem to demand some acknowledgement, even if only for political cover, but speakers blithely skipped over it.<\/p>\n

Michelle Obama complained that \u201cas George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and a never-ending list of innocent people of color continue to be murdered, stating the simple fact that a black life matters is still met with derision from the nation\u2019s highest office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why not mention the innocent people of color murdered every day in disorder-ridden cities, and not by law enforcement? Don\u2019t they count, too?<\/p>\n

No, the Democratic Party prefers not to grapple with the uncomfortable truth that the riots have almost certainly materially harmed the lives of vulnerable people. It doesn\u2019t want to admit the necessary work of cops patrolling dangerous urban neighborhoods and how, if this work is stymied, poor people suffer.<\/p>\n

It considers itself the party of decency, as long as you don\u2019t ask it to condemn mindless destruction and the shootings blighting our cities. It celebrates itself as the party of norms, except the ones necessary to law and order.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @RichLowry <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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