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When reality intrudes on ideology.

An old adage goes a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged. That of course was a long time ago when there were still liberals with reasoning faculties. No longer. Today, modern liberals are able to skillfully juggle their ideology verses reality without the slightest stress of conflict. When confronted with an ugly truth they simply engages in diversion, never mind their being caught in a logical falsehood.

A fine example of the above is now occuring, which Professor Charles Lipson of the University of Chicago (are conservatives still allowed there?) succinctly gives us the particulars.

It was free—and meaningless—for progressive churches to post banners calling themselves “nuclear free zones” during the Reagan era. Their dwindling congregations loved it. It was free, after George Floyd‘s murder, to post woke catechism signs on your front lawn, proclaiming “In this house, we believe: Black Lives Matter, women’s rights are human rights, no human is illegal” and so on. Maybe the neighbors gave you high-fives. And for years it has been free for deep-blue cities to proclaim themselves “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. That’s changing now that voters want some sanctuary for themselves.

Changes like this happen when voters realize the old virtue signals actually entail serious costs—and that they will have to pay them. That is exactly what’s happening in New York City and Washington D.C. now that Texas governor Greg Abbott is sending those cities a few busloads of illegal immigrants from his state.

These progressive bastions were silent when the Biden administration flew planeloads of illegal immigrants to suburban airports in the middle of the night. TV coverage was prohibited, and the arrivals were secretly dispersed. Abbott’s buses, by contrast, arrive downtown greeted by local TV crews. Now you can hear the politicians screech.

Indeed you can, but instead of taking a good hard look at their ideologies concerning “sanctuary cities” i. e., where illegal immigrants may tread without fear, and open borders, whence they come, the leaders of these cities resort to a time-honored tactic: demanding tax payers, via the federal government, shovel more money their way to pay for a polyglot of programs, regardless their efficacy, to help cope with the myriad problems illegals bring with them.

Professor Lipson concludes,

The question now is whether those Democratic lawmakers will finally direct their wrath at the president, and whether Biden will duck and cover or respond with more effective policies. The costs are rising, the political damage is intensifying, and Greg Abbott keeps trying to get their attention.

This writer believes Lipson’s question has already been answered. The leaders of Democrat cities have had decades to glean the results of their ideologies. Few, if any, have have had a change of heart or brain. Despite their cities crumbling before their eyes, they continue clinging to and spouting the usual dogmas of liberalism. They did not learn a thing nearly half-a-century ago from the lessons of the southern Bronx viz rent-control

and it is unlikely they will learn anything today allowing illegals, bringing crime, gangs, and drugs, into their cities. If our Democrat-liberals continue on their present course of policide, this writer thinks it not unreasonable to suggest whole cities controlled by them will eventually end up looking like the above or even the city below in 1945.