Is Tucker Carlson Right About America's Cities?

Why are thieves allowed to steal from businesses without fear of prosecution? Why are criminals released without bail after committing violent crimes? Why do so many students think they can scream obscenities at their teachers or attack other students?

Today's "experts" insist that protecting property and demanding self-control is "racist." Nonsense. Allowing crime and violence isn't "anti-racism"; it's anarchy.

Tucker Carlson's critics will no doubt point out the authoritarian control of the governments that run the clean and safe cities he praised -- just as they criticize El Salvador's recently reelected President Nayib Bukele, who has cleaned up that small country with widespread arrests and incarceration of tens of thousands of gang members whose rampant crime made El Salvador unlivable.

The United States is hardly in a position to criticize El Salvador. Under the guise of "freedom," the elites in our entertainment industry, media and academia routinely promote behavior that is both personally and societally destructive. At the same time, those in control of our government -- which is increasingly authoritarian -- use their power to go after Christians who are peacefully trying to persuade pregnant women to keep their babies. They attack parents trying to keep porn out of school libraries and classrooms, and biological males out of their daughters' sports teams, locker rooms and bathrooms. They allow roving mobs to burn whole sections of cities, killing dozens and doing billions of dollars in damage, but prosecute those who attempt to defend those businesses and their owners, just as they prosecute individuals who defend themselves, or defend helpless passengers on city subways.

Our government censors those trying to tell the American public the truth. It imports crime and poverty by allowing migrants to pour into this country by the millions, ignoring the potential terrorists, the gang members who will go on to commit violent crimes, those who traffic women and children for sex slavery or import the fentanyl that's killing 100,000 Americans a year. And in "no bail" states like New York and Illinois, migrants who do commit crimes are put back on the streets, able to re-offend.

At least the authoritarian governments in some countries use their power to enforce order. Ours uses its power to facilitate chaos.

John Adams' 1798 letter holds warnings that are just as accurate today as they were then:

"[S]hould the People of America ... become capable of that deep ... simulation towards one another and towards foreign nations, which assumes the Language of Justice and moderation while it is practicing Iniquity and Extravagance; and displays in the most captivating manner the charming Pictures of Candour frankness & sincerity while it is rioting in rapine and Insolence: this Country will be the most miserable Habitation in the World. Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by ... morality and Religion."

We are fast becoming the "miserable Habitation" Adams predicted. But neither Vladimir Putin nor Tucker Carlson nor Donald Trump is the real threat to our country, our safety, our political stability and economic prosperity, our way of life and our children's future.

It is what we have let ourselves become, and we have to stop. Stop ignoring it. Stop excusing it. And above all, stop voting for the people whose policies cause it.

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