So Hillary Clinton, devoid of any thoughts that actually work in practice, has backed out of the ideas marketplace in favor of pandering to anyone who is somehow able to vote. Else how do you explain her incredible statement as a response to the murders of police officers in Dallas this past week?
According to Hillary, "white people" need to get inside the minds of black people and understand their feelings, and that will solve things and we won't have any more of these murders.
That, friends, is a leap from action to outcome that I would love to have someone ask her to trace for us, if only she would hold a news conference and answer real questions. We're 0 for 2016 on that front.
Now, I'm all for understanding the plight of our fellow Americans, as long as it is not self-inflicted and they are willing to accept a solution. In other words, if you are playing the victim and don't want to be made better but prefer to remain the victim, you get no sympathy from me at all. But real people with real problems they actually want to fix, well, I'm all for it.
But the problem here, at least what Hillary was supposedly responding to, is a bunch of people protesting the killings of some black suspects by police officers, one cop Hispanic and one white. Now, there are due process actions inside the police forces and the halls of justice in this country to address the individual incidents. That is how this country addresses such things.
But one moron in Dallas decided to take things in his own hands, left a trail of words about killing white people and particularly white policemen, stockpiled weaponry and ammunition, and then set about to murder as many as he could before he was blown up, to the betterment of society everywhere.
Hillary responded by saying we -- meaning white people -- needed to get in the shoes of black people. Hmmmm. We have certain cases of unprincipled police using excessive force and killing suspects -- not what they set out that day to do, but did. Unjustifiable? Very possibly, though as the days go on the stories fuzz a bit. Subject to departmental and judicial process and possible punishment? Oh, yeah. Then one guy takes it all on himself and sets out that day to murder policemen.
How does my better understanding of black people, Hillary, connect to either of those two situations? If I understand black people, will rogue cops stop using excessive force on suspects? Not likely. If I understand black people better, will murderers, like the racist black man being reassembled in Dallas now, return their weaponry and no longer hate white people? Um, not thinking that.
I've written often about cause and effect. Solutions proposed should be offered either because they have worked before in similar situations, or there is a logical relation between the problem and the solution that leads one to see the mechanism for it to work -- and it has not regularly failed before.
Hillary is a liberal, meaning that cause-and-effect is a foreign concept to her. Her utter failure and ineptitude as Secretary of State bear that out. The concepts she does know are "say what sounds good" and "say what you might get votes from." And that's what we're getting.
I'd be delighted to know how she thinks even more "understanding" is going to lead to fewer cop-related killings and fewer murderers like the Dallas incident. Get me from point A to point B, Hillary, and tell me all the steps between; I really want to hear that.
Because your approach to solving problems is a real deciding factor for some American voters, Hillary, and we'd like to know that you are going to try to help solve our problems with solutions that really, really work.
The whole rainbows and unicorns thing is for children's books.
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