A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with really bad stuff when everyone else chooses to look the other way.
The “broken windows” theory of policing, which was responsible for a stunning drop in crime in New York in the 1990s, was based on a simple proposition. This was that bad people are encouraged to commit serious crimes if lesser social nuisances such as litter, vandalism or fare evasion are ignored.
This transmits the fatal signal that those in authority are giving a free pass to disorder. To stop serious offenses, there must be a consistent message that there will be zero tolerance for breaking any of the rules that keep a society civilized.
The “broken windows” theory might well also be applied to politics. The classicist and commentator Victor Davis Hansen has published a bone-chilling analysis of America that suggests it is inexorably going down to destruction.
I can’t help but think of Canada and how to some community “thought leaders” public displays of Muslim hatred for Israel and Jews is something that just now seems to have sprung up out of nowhere and their bewilderment at how deeply it is embedded within the Liberal-Left. Some of these same “leaders” have called me and the fans of this blog Islamophobic and or racist for merely pointing out the vibrant diversity of the Mohammedan migration. I find it absurd that the one thing the Grandees of the Muslim and Jewish community can agree on is the need for legislation to restrict our right to freedom of speech. I’m certain this will prove as successful as all of your past interfaith outreach efforts.
I have news for the Kumbaya Kool-Aid drinkers, I have been blogging nearly 20 years and it’s only gotten worse and it will only continue to get worse thanks to you. But try the grape I hear it’s yummy!
