Good news: epidemic of violence against blacks isn't a threat to Ed Brayton

Ed Brayton reassures us that everything is ok.

It seems to Ed that the Republican outcry against incitement to murder cops and the resulting crime wave in black communities is just a Republican political ploy:

All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell.

Liberals cheer the jailing of a Christian clerk who asserts her First Amendment rights vis-a-vi gay marriage, and then they accuse conservatives of "obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality".

Try expressing a conservative opinion on a college campus today, and you'll learn a thing or two about liberal obsession with "authority and in-group vs out-group morality".

The culture of political correctness, which is totalitarianism with a velvet glove, is nothing more than an obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality.

And conservative politics is not "so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant". Segregation was a Progressive Democrat social program--social engineering writ large. The first Progressive Democrat president--Wilson-- re-segregated the federal government, after conservative Republicans had desegregated it for the half-century after the Civil War.

Segregationists were part-and-parcel of FDR's New Deal coalition, and even the (few) Democrats who weren't racists themselves prostituted themselves to segregationists to keep hold of power. FDR put Hugo Black on the Supreme Court--Black was a senior-level Klansman from the Alabama Klan who championed FDR's New Deal through the Senate. Black later applied the phrase from the Klan's initiation oath--"separation of church and state" (designed to defund Catholic schools) to the Establishment Clause in Everson.

Most of the major segregationists of the mid-20th century--George Wallace, William Fullbright, Al Gore senior, Orval Faubus--were Progressive Democrats, not conservatives and not Republicans.

Conservatives and Republicans were the most prominent opponents of segregation, and they remain the most prominent defenders of real civil rights--color-blind application of the law in accordance with the 14th Amendment.

Perhaps the most disturbing line in Ed's witless post is this:

It’s also why the [conservative Republican] focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being.

The reality is that neither conservative Republicans nor pasty-white liberal Democrats like Ed Brayton face a significant threat to their well-being from violence.

The people who are threatened by the massive Democrat-caused crime wave of 2015 are blacks living in inner cities, who daily have to face the catastrophe of liberal Democrat policies that have decimated their neighborhoods and policies that have now made the police reluctant to pursue effective policies against crime.

Crime has sky-rocketed since the Black Lives Matter "movement", and it is black people who have been paying the price for liberal moral preening and the Democrat party get-out-the-vote drive.

Conservatives and Republicans--the same folks who fought Progressive Democrat segregation a couple of generations ago--are still fighting for black lives and for safety and prosperity in black neighborhoods.

Rudy Guiliani saved thousands of black lives with his remarkably successful policies on crime reduction. What has Al Sharpton saved, besides money?

Ben Carson and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke are two black Americans who understand the importance of conservative principles and good police work in protecting black lives.

Ed Brayton has dismissed Sheriff Clark with the racial epithet "Uncle Tom".

Ed Brayton is content as long as he is not personally threatened by the massive wave of violence Democrats have caused in black neighborhoods across America. After all, from Ed's perspective, it's not white liberals who are being killed in the streets of Baltimore, and vilifying cops certainly serves Democrats' political ends.

I've worked in inner city hospitals, and I've spent many nights digging bullets out of the brains of young black men raised in a culture that is largely the product of liberal Democrat politics. I've had nights where we had to stack the bodies in a corner of the trauma room because we couldn't get the dead people to the morgue fast enough to make room for the new people who just got shot.

I've worked in abattoirs fed by Progressive Democrat politics--broken families, multi-generation welfare  dependency, liberal approaches to crime control and moronic police policies. I've seen what Democrats do to communities.

But as long as Ed Brayton is safe and able to morally preen, that's what counts.

Ed Brayton doesn't give a shit about black lives.

All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf

All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf

All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufAll that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf

It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. - See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufv