Liz keeps playing blame game
The United States is a terrible place. At least that appeared to be the theme of Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s ominous chat at a historically black college on Friday. Warren was part of a Q&A session hosted by Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Cedric Richmond at Dillard University in New Orleans. “Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system,” she railed. “It’s racist. It is. And when I say our system, I mean all the way. I mean front to back. This is not just sentencing reform we’re talking about here. We’re talking about the front end on what you declare to be illegal on how you enforce it, on who gets arrested.”
Front to back. That means law enforcement, the court system, and corrections. All of it is racist according to Warren.
This comes on the heels of Sen. Warren’s call to abolish ICE a little more than a month ago. Then, like Friday, her rhetoric would reach the media’s standards of a “dark” speech if they used that barometer on anyone else but President Trump.
“President Trump seems to think that the only way to have immigration rule is to rip parents from their family, is to treat rape victims and refugees like terrorists and to put children in cages,” she said on City Hall Plaza in June. “This is ugly and this is wrong and this is not the way to run our country.”
Now she is all in on the criminal justice system of the dastardly United States. “They shackle pregnant women. What kind of a country does this to people?” she asked Friday.
“Our prison system is something that America should be ashamed of. What we do to other human beings is fundamentally wrong.”
In fact, according to Sen. Warren, we’re on the brink of destruction. “Democracy has its back against the wall,” she warned, “The dark money. The rich and the powerful. The folks who think they can hold our country by the throat. The folks who think that we are here just to continue to produce more and more profits for them.”
And the Supreme Court is in on the whole thing, apparently. “We’ve got a Supreme Court nominee ... who came from a prescreened list. A list prescreened by not one but two right-wing extremist groups.”
On the other court appointments, host Cedric Richmond added, “They are overt racists and bigots.”
Is there any hard-working American who Elizabeth Warren has not condemned? Starting with business owners, “You didn’t build that,” to everyone involved in the criminal justice system at every level, “racist,” she almost always defaults to excoriating group A for the failures of group B rather than coming up with practical solutions.
“If you want a government where we believe in the great American family, we believe in what we can do together, then you vote Democratic,” she declared.
If there was a message of hope for the “great American family” we must have missed it. In fact, the great American family is under assault, front to back, by Warren and the Democrats.