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Why Liberals Identify with CriminalsBy Tom Trinko

Liberals hate cops, honest citizens with guns, and hard sentencing laws because liberals identify with criminals.

When visiting a Federal prison Obama summarized the view of liberals when he said:

These are young people who made mistakes that arent that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that

a lot of you guys made."

While the people in the prison he was talking about were really drug dealers and violent felons, Obama, was repeating the liberal lie

that the prisons are full of folks who just smoked a joint and got caught.

Liberals arefive times more likelyto use marijuana and cocaine than conservatives. A natural consequence of drug use is fear of

the police. While the U.S. has an overly soft policy towards drug users, users are nonetheless afraid of the consequence of getting

caught breaking the law. This fosters in liberals an anti-cop mentality, since the police are the agents of society that enforce

societys laws against drug use.

If a liberaldislikes the police because he thinks they are unfairly targeting his harmless drug use its not a big step for him to

assume that cops are racist and violent towards other innocent people. After all if a liberal believes that cops are racist pigs then

it becomes clearthat arresting innocent drug users is an act of fascist repression and that drug users are actually victims of the

police state not criminals.

This antipathy towards the law because of drugs is not new. During Prohibition Americans who liked to drink lost respect for the

police. Anyone who likes to do things that are illegal is going to develop a distaste for the men and women in blue who enforce thelaw. Its a natural consequence of the fact that human nature is such that we usually try and rationalize our behavior by

scapegoating someone else.

The problem is exacerbated because for many liberals, such as Obama, drug use began when they were highly impressionable

teens biases developed at a young age are often much harder to escape than those developed later in life.

Further because illegal drug users are criminals, that is they are intentionally breaking the law, they tend to identify with other

criminals rather than with the criminal justice system or victims.

Drug users rationalizes their criminal acts by saying its the law thats bad, that the system is unjust, that theyre being unfairly

persecuted exactly the same sort of rationalizations that every criminal uses. Its not surprising then that liberals will identify with

the criminal rather than the victim or the police.

Like other criminals, liberal law breakers often believe that what they do doesnt hurt others. Robbers will rationalize that theyre

stealing from people who are rich only because the system is corrupt and that they, the robbers, are just getting what should be

theirs, and anyway the rich theyre stealing from wont miss what was stolen. Rapists will claim that the woman asked for it

and that no means yes. Similarly liberals argue that their drug use doesnt hurt anyone. Apparently liberals either dont care or are

unaware of the victims of their drug use.

Drug use however does have many victims the gang wars in our cities, the massive deaths of blacks in our cities, the chaos and

death in Mexico are all fueled by the dollars of American drug users. Mexico is turning into a cesspool of violence and corruption

because Americans want their drugs and they dont care who suffers.

The river of drug money also leads to the corruption of the police that in turn causes the very sort of police misconduct that liberals

excoriate.

However, liberals tend to be people who eschew personal responsibility so they fail to see the connection between their giving

money to criminal organizations and the violent acts of those cartels.

If liberals were to admit to themselves that the average cop is a decent person who tries to treat people fairly, theyd have to

confront the fact that its a liberals choice to break the law that makes liberals fear the police. Sadly, liberal DNA just doesnt

include accepting responsibility for ones actions so they continue to blame others for the consequences of their drug use, including

their fear of police.

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Of course, not all liberals are drug users. Some liberals probably view the police as the enemy because theyve committed other

crimes. For example, Hillary Clintons feeling that shes been persecuted in encounters with the law over Whitewater and various

other scandals may have put her on the side of criminals. And of course all the corrupt liberal politicians in Chicago and Detroit

have ample reason to side with the bad guys.

Once we realize that liberals identify with criminals, their actions make sense. A person who thinks the justice system is anything

but just will work hard to make cops job harder while giving criminals as many loopholes as he can.

Similarly if a person thinks of criminals as oppressed victims then they will have no problem with Supreme Court rulings that put

impossible burdens on the police who have to make split second decisions in complex situations.

But worst of all, a person who views the police as the bad guys will buy into the lie of the Black Lives Matter movement that copsare killing people for no good reason. That in turn leads to lack of interest on their part concerning the safety of police.

In the end, liberal identification with criminals leads to the police knowing that the politicians dont have their backs and to a

reduction in effective crime control. Its not an accident that liberals disagree with Giulianis Broken Window policing

philosophy, since liberals dont seem to care about the victims of petty crimes.

We need to tell the American people, our friends and neighbors, the truth that liberals arent like honest folk instead liberals

identify with criminals and therefore support laws that favor criminals over victims and society.

Its time to realize that liberals are rooting for the wrong side in the war on crime.

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