I wrote recently about who should bear responsibility of violent crime. I observed that the Washington Post, among numerous other liberal outlets, places the blame on police, police abuses, prosecutors, judges, jails, an overly punitive system, poverty, racism, too many guns, and myriad other “root causes.” Never once did the Post mention my candidate to bear responsibility, namely, the people committing crime and their greed, malice, cruelty and “make-a-quick-buck-and-to-heck-with-everyone-else” view of the world.
I must now confess that I spoke without the benefit of hearing from Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Mayor Lightfoot, who was gushingly praised for being Chicago’s first black, gay, female leader (as if your identity can actually help you run a city, or anything else), now tells us the key to lowering crime.
The key is for merchants to stop using money. And no, I am not making this up.
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