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Who is really to blame for the ills of society?

New York City's indifference to violent attacks reveals a deeper breakdown from progressive policies

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COMMENTARY

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times - Thursday, December 26, 2024

OPINION:


The enthusiastic humanitarian and former worst president in history Jimmy Carter is credited with saying that “the measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.”

As with everything on the internet, it is probably fake. More likely, everybody said this for a very long time until Pastor Jimmah came along and said it and then nobody ever said it again because literally everything Jimmy Carter touched, Jimmy Carter ruined.

America — and the world — has been traumatized ever since the Carter administration, and so it was just understood that maybe if nobody ever quoted him again, we would not be visited by that particularly cancerous Ghost of Christmas Past.

To be fair, worst president in history was no small feat. No one thought it could be topped. But then along came President Biden, who has never seen anything he didn’t want to plagiarize. So he plagiarized Mr. Carter’s presidency.

To Mr. Biden’s credit, he did invent new ways to make things even worse than Mr. Carter could have imagined. So, this being the Christmas season and all, we should at least give Mr. Biden credit for the first original thing he ever did — after 50 years in public life.

Who said an old dog cannot learn new tricks? Anyhoo, it is basically true that a society can be measured by how the weakest among us are treated.

Many shallow, slow-thinking communists argue this means that government should be in charge of everything, which really makes no sense at all if you think about it.

In all the places where the government is most in charge, the weakest are treated the worst. That’s because a society is not the government. Rather, society is the regular people who do all the small things in life to take care of their families, their neighbors and even the strangers they meet on the street.

Few places in America “enjoy” more complete government intrusion into all aspects of life than New York City. And few places feature greater horrors committed against the weakest than New York. The city is essentially an open-air insane asylum these days, with a handful of normal people and tourists stepping around the carnage.

On Christmas Eve, a 26-year-old woman was headed to work when a lunatic punched her in the back of the head so hard she blacked out. She was walking through Grand Central Station — that great, cavernous monument to the healthy society we once were. Adding to the Christmas cheer, the madman plunged a knife into the woman’s throat.

The woman was shocked that no one stopped to help her.

“No one called 911. No one in Grand Central called 911,” she said later. Instead, she called her neighbor, and her neighbor called the police for her. She was one of two innocent people stabbed by that particular monster on Christmas Eve in Grand Central Station.

As gruesome as that scene was on Christmas Eve, it was a holiday greeting card compared with what one of Mr. Biden’s migrants did on the F train last week. In some kind of demonic stupor, a monster struck a match and lit on fire a woman who was sleeping on the train full of commuters. The accused is a hardworking Guatemalan who entered the country illegally.

Internet footage shows the woman standing up — apparently awakened by being lit on fire — and standing in the open doors of the stalled train as scores of people milled about and walked by as if this were some normal occurrence in New York. To be fair, it does seem rather normal for society in New York these days.

In the aftermath, internet cowboys were horrified to see the indifference of people passing by as the woman — who has yet to be identified by city authorities — burned to death. Those videotaping the carnage drew the most seething scorn.

I would actually defend those who recorded the incident and its aftermath. Those people contributed valuable evidence that will be used to convict Mr. Biden’s monster. Just as importantly, they held up a mirror to the society that New York City has become.

Anyway, those people milling around the F train as the woman burned — even those recording the incident on their phones — are not the guiltiest of our broken society. The guiltiest are all the people — many of them the internet cowboys who later weighed in on the atrocity with all their damnation — who live in New York City and keep voting for the same politicians and policies that create a government that tortures the weakest among us.

All because they themselves have such contempt for the weakest that they would rather just step over them and move along.

Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.

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