The Emperor's Newest Clothes
When I first heard the story of the emperor's new clothes, I thought it was ridiculous. How could an entire population not notice that the emperor was naked? Only one child declared it.
Current events have reminded me of the story.
I know many intelligent, well educated and kind people. America is full of them. So how can so many people not see that the emperor's newest clothes are naked falsehoods? Perhaps they fear peer pressure.
When candidate Trump promised to end illegal immigration, these people were outraged. They ask how can you deport people who come here illegally to get a better life? Anyone who gets here should be able to stay even if it encourages tens of millions to do the same.
People here illegally are no problem for the majority of us who are well educated or at least secure in our position. American lawyers, doctors, surgeons, nurses, social workers, psychologists, teachers and those in similar positions are not harmed by these undocumented workers. Illegals provide inexpensive workers for landscaping, construction, hotel and restaurant jobs, house cleaning, nannies and furniture moving, so what's the problem? They are seemingly not aware that those here without invitation take jobs away from the less educated, especially Americans of African and Latin American descent.
Why didn't liberals come out say so? Perhaps, they feared being labeled racist, bigoted and /or xenophobia. These labels can be very destructive.
Why didn't liberals come out say so? Perhaps, they feared being labeled racist, bigoted and /or xenophobia. These labels can be very destructive.
People were shocked when the President said that all three groups played a role in the riots in Charlottesville even though it was obvious that the alt right, the left and the police were to blame for what happened. Had the liberals just stayed home, this would not have happened. If the alt right hadn't been so disgraceful, it wouldn't have happened. When both groups got into a fight, the police should not have waited an hour to intervene. They were all responsible.
Why didn't liberals come out in agreement? Maybe they feared being labeled fascist or anti Semitic and uncaring for people of color.
Why didn't liberals come out in agreement? Maybe they feared being labeled fascist or anti Semitic and uncaring for people of color.
A football player, who was in his second season of sitting on the bench, decided to make a public statement. He disrespected the National Anthem by kneeling for it instead of standing proud. We knew that this player had every advantage in life but he was protesting the treatment of blacks. Not only was it unpatriotic, disrespectful and ungrateful, it was unnecessary. We had been talking about the problem and were addressing it two years before his protests. Since then the incidence of abuse by police has only increased. We applauded his effort without asking ourselves where do blacks have it better? Not in Africa or Latin America or Asia or most of European countries that have very few. What other country outside of Africa, has ever elected a black president or prime minister? We did twice.
We had been aware of police misconduct that resulted in almost a dozen unnecessary fatalities in the last four years ( Chicago, South Carolina, Buffalo, Dallas, New Orleans etc). A few week-ends ago 12 people were killed by fellow blacks in Chicago. In Baltimore after the four officers were mistakenly blamed for the death of a 20 year old drug dealer who was resisting his 20th arrest of that year, police stayed out of the violent part of Baltimore for six weeks. During that time 56 people were murdered, 55 of them were black killed by other blacks. Nationwide though 12% of the population, the majority of murder victims are black as are 93% of their assailants. So the problem is much greater than police wrongdoing which is unacceptable for even one unlawful police shooting.
Why didn't liberals and their mainstream media report all this? Maybe they were afraid of appearing to be racist, bigoted and/or insensitive.
We had been aware of police misconduct that resulted in almost a dozen unnecessary fatalities in the last four years ( Chicago, South Carolina, Buffalo, Dallas, New Orleans etc). A few week-ends ago 12 people were killed by fellow blacks in Chicago. In Baltimore after the four officers were mistakenly blamed for the death of a 20 year old drug dealer who was resisting his 20th arrest of that year, police stayed out of the violent part of Baltimore for six weeks. During that time 56 people were murdered, 55 of them were black killed by other blacks. Nationwide though 12% of the population, the majority of murder victims are black as are 93% of their assailants. So the problem is much greater than police wrongdoing which is unacceptable for even one unlawful police shooting.
Why didn't liberals and their mainstream media report all this? Maybe they were afraid of appearing to be racist, bigoted and/or insensitive.
Desperate to stop the appointment of an excellent juror because he is conservative, not super liberal, Democrats resorted to questionable accusations about something that allegedly happened 36 years.
A woman came out in the end of the process to claim that when the judge was 17, he got drunk and kissed and fondled her when she was 15. Not only does her story not hold-up - she couldn't remember how many others were involved; no one that she named to bear witness to the event said they never saw or heard anything; she couldn't remember where or when it happened or how she got where she couldn't remember, couldn't remember how she got home; and she was seen by one of her colleagues teaching someone how to fool the lie detector test - it is unimportant. If a teen got drunk and kissed someone long ago, it has nothing to do with his current status. Surely every Democratic senator knows this. American liberals know this, but they pretend that this is important. Even Dianne Feinstein, the only senator on the left who had any integrity abandoned it in the hope to get re-lected so she can serve until she's 90.
Maybe they fear being considered to be in favor of sexual abuse or of having no compassion with this woman seemingly traumatized by the experience. Just by coincidence, she has protested Trump for everything from stopping illegal immigration to potentially limiting or eliminating access to what have been legal abortions.
A woman came out in the end of the process to claim that when the judge was 17, he got drunk and kissed and fondled her when she was 15. Not only does her story not hold-up - she couldn't remember how many others were involved; no one that she named to bear witness to the event said they never saw or heard anything; she couldn't remember where or when it happened or how she got where she couldn't remember, couldn't remember how she got home; and she was seen by one of her colleagues teaching someone how to fool the lie detector test - it is unimportant. If a teen got drunk and kissed someone long ago, it has nothing to do with his current status. Surely every Democratic senator knows this. American liberals know this, but they pretend that this is important. Even Dianne Feinstein, the only senator on the left who had any integrity abandoned it in the hope to get re-lected so she can serve until she's 90.
Maybe they fear being considered to be in favor of sexual abuse or of having no compassion with this woman seemingly traumatized by the experience. Just by coincidence, she has protested Trump for everything from stopping illegal immigration to potentially limiting or eliminating access to what have been legal abortions.
After disgusting evidence proved that Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein were sex abusers in the worst way, we started looking for others. And we found them - actors, comedians, congressmen and CEOs have been found guilty of sexual abuse by the court of public opinion. Women who were abused were encouraged to tell their stories. We seem to not realize that there are degrees of abuse from Cosby to CK to kissing or touching someone who didn't want to be when he was a minor. We don't seem able to differentiate the seriousness of the alleged accusation. Maybe we don't want to. Perhaps, the goal is to derail this Catholic conservative. The main fear seems to be having Roe versus Wade overturned. Since 1973 abortion was declared legal citing the First Amendment, the right to privacy, even though there is no mention of it in the amendment, we have had more than 50 million fetuses terminated. Thanks to Roe, women became free to have sex with anyone, at anytime, anywhere without fear of unintended pregnancy.
Maybe that's why intelligent, well educated people pretend that the emperor is fully and beautifully clothed.
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