Americans Have Become Slaves to the Worst People Among Us
There’s something I like to think of as the “Fish Tank Effect.” The “Fish Tank Effect” includes our assumptions that are so baked into the cake that we don’t even question why it’s like that anymore, just as the fish in the aquarium don’t question why there’s a castle in the sand, how their water gets cleaned, or why there are barriers all around the area they live in. To them, it JUST IS. To us, certain things just are.
The quote that we started the article with is truly brilliant because it encourages us to notice the fact that so much of our entire society now revolves around catering to relatively small, but extremely dysfunctional groups of people.
Not the rich. Not the middle class. Not the taxpayers. Not the forgotten majority that makes our country work.
No, much of our society now revolves around empowering and placating the most dysfunctional, least law-abiding, laziest, and most broken people in our entire society.
Our mentality is not, “Let’s encourage people to copy success,” “Let’s give taxpayers value for their money,” or even, “How do we make life easier and better for the majority of people,” it’s how do we drag the biggest losers in life across the finish line in spite of themselves.
As we speak, we’re currently enduring a partial government shutdown because Democrats want to try to prevent ICE from deporting illegals. These are people who knowingly and intentionally entered our country illegally and are refusing to leave. Setting aside the fact that there’s nothing more reasonable than a nation being allowed to control who does and does not enter their borders, all of these people knew the penalty for entering America illegally was deportation. Now, we’re being told, “Oh, but it’s not fair! Jose hasn’t had a drunk driving offense since 2024, so how can we send him back to his home country? Also, Camila may have entered the country illegally and ignored a deportation order, but nobody can prove her boyfriend is a member of MS-13, so she should be able to stay.” We even have “sanctuary cities” that refuse to cooperate with ICE to such an extent that they won’t hand over illegal alien pedophiles and rapists to be deported.
We’ve gone to these bizarre extremes over a subject that shouldn’t even be a debate in the first place.
We could ask similar questions about immigration. Why would we want people here from third-world hellholes like Somalia? Why would we want to import radical Muslims into our country? What is the upside of bringing in huge numbers of “refugees” who game our system, barely speak English, and end up on welfare? It’s a hill to die on for a lot of people on the Left.
Yet, why should we feel obligated to bring in dead weight for everyone else to carry when we can have our pick of the best immigrants from all around the world? They’re not even AMERICANS yet, and the ones we’ve already brought in have been a mess. Why continue that?
What about homelessness? Just California alone has spent 24 billion dollars fighting homelessness, only for the amount of homelessness in their state to INCREASE. That’s because what passes for “fighting” homelessness in America is mostly just enabling homelessness. It’s refusing to enforce drug and panhandling laws, it’s allowing them to put tents wherever they want, and it’s giving them food and shelter when times get tough in return for nothing. It’s hard to miss the fact that the more we cater to the homeless, the more homeless people we get. Why is that?
It’s because the real problem isn’t that the chronically homeless don’t have a home; it’s the terrible behavior of the chronically homeless that leads to them not having a home.
Not only should we slash the amount of money we’re spending on the homeless, under no circumstances imaginable should we put the lives of the people paying to help the homeless with their behavior problems BEHIND the homeless. No lawbreaking should be allowed. No tent cities on the sidewalks. Enforce vagrancy laws and put the crazy people walking around mumbling to themselves in asylums.
To the extent homeless people are victims, they’re victims of themselves, so why should people like that be allowed to degrade the lives of everyone else by sh*tting on the sidewalk and harassing everyone who walks by for money?
Similarly, we need to ask how the rights of criminals to get away with crimes somehow became more important than the rights of law-abiding people not to be victimized. There are people like this just walking around out there.
Did anyone really think this guy was going to turn it around between arrest 91 and arrest 92? Who even wants people like this on the streets? Oh, right….
“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence.”
The hell we can’t.
Locking up criminals (and executions) have been the most effective answers to crime-ridden societies since the dawn of civilization, and they still are, so why are we still having this debate? Why should we keep punishing the innocent by refusing to make criminals pay for their crimes?
Of course, there’s nothing that fits this whole concept better than the trans issue. We’ve spent endless amounts of time over the last decade fighting over the right of a tiny, deeply mentally ill, mostly perverted group of men in dresses to be able to pretend to be female in locker rooms, sporting events, and even women’s prisons.
The idea that you can be a man today, put on a skirt and call yourself “Tammy” tomorrow, and you’re free to compete in female sporting events and wave your c*** at 14-year-old girls in the women’s locker room is insanity:
Why is half the population being forced to endure this lunacy instead of just telling trans people the truth, which is that they have terrible mental problems?
We can go on and on and on with this. Why are the worst, most disruptive students allowed to interrupt the schooling of kids that want to learn over-and-over again? Why do we allow squatters to simply set up shop in people’s homes and refuse to move them for months? Why do we put everything on store shelves behind glass instead of just putting shoplifters in jail? It’s hard not to miss the fact that DEI is all about giving jobs to incompetents who could have never made it based on merit just because of their skin color, race or disability.
One of the biggest problems with America is that we’ve flipped the whole idea of giving basic protections to even the worst people among us on its head, and instead, we’re prioritizing them ahead of everyone else.
That is exactly backward.
WOMEN are more important than mentally ill men who think they’re women.
LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS are more important than criminals.
AMERICANS are more important than foreigners who want to come to our country.
TAXPAYERS are more important than people who don’t pay taxes.
The MAJORITY is more important than the minority.
That doesn’t mean those other groups have zero importance or shouldn’t have rights, but it does mean that we’re not their slaves, and the rest of us should no longer be treated as second-class citizens so that we can cater to the worst people in our whole society.
Great essay, but it's tough to read it and maintain a healthy blood pressure. All these things you say are so true, and they drive me crazy because there is no good f'ing reason why we should tolerate- not to mention foster- any of this horse doodie. It seems so satanic to me; so nihilistic. About the only "um, did you mean this" moment is when you wrote "why do we want to import radical muslims?" History/ current events have shown that there are no "safe" muslims to import. Second generation muslims are extremely dangerous, for example the young guys who threw the home made IED's in NYC a couple of weeks ago. They become radicalized, even when they have a peaceful, affluent upbringing. Like a g.d. lit fuse; we just don't know when they'll go boom. Read Gaad Saad's story about what happened in Lebanon as proof. Or, look at every country in Europe, save Hungary and Poland. A total ban on Islamic immigration is the only sane and rational thing to do, or we can just flush America down the toilet. Even the ones that aren't violent- how about organized, systemic corruption, like Minneapolis? With the side effect of putting geniuses like Rashida Talib and Ilhan Omar in the federal government!
I believe it was in "The Way Things Ought To Be" that Rush Limbaugh pointed out that there were maybe about half a million actual "homeless" in the whole of America, and that was back in 1988.
Let's be generous and assume that number has quadrupled since then. So, two million people. Out of a population of a little less than a third of a billion. And I'm just counting U. S. citizens, because illegal aliens should never be considered when discussing official population numbers.
So 2,000,000 out of 320,000,000. 1 in 160. What is that, about two-thirds of one percent? And we're supposed to bend over backwards to shower these people with handouts and sympathy?