Nightmare Scenario

Mike is a member of the Democratic Socialists. Mike does not understand things.

You see, according to Mike, if you object to dangerously violent criminals being released 72 times, then you must be “weak” and “paralysed by fear of the other.”

Mike is keen to call other people “dumb as fuck.”

And then of course there’s this:

Those with a taste for grim humour are steered towards this rather vivid indication of how a crime rate can improve when just three burglars – with over 200 convictions between them – flee the police in a stolen car before colliding with something solid and ceasing to be.

An illustration, one of many, of how a very large fraction of crime could be prevented by dealing decisively with a surprisingly small number of persistent offenders.

I’m guessing that Mike, our Democratic Socialist, would not approve.

And from the same post, this:

The mismatch of progressive assumptions with the perpetrators’ own stated motives, the way their minds work, is quite something. The idea that carjacking, for instance, is done for reasons of survival, to meet basic needs, and only done in desperation or under duress, because of some supposedly oppressive and racist social system, is darkly funny. Perverse to the point of absurdity.

As illustrated, vividly, in the study linked above – say, by the female carjacker named PoPo, who terrorised a random woman, stole her car, her purse and her wedding ring, then “bought some drink and… weed and… got my hair did.” Because, you know, hair.

Or her fellow carjacker, Little Ty, who, contrary to progressive assumptions, had no need of money – “We don’t need money, we have money” – via means one might guess at – but who simply finds pleasure in violating others. Or the ferals named Loco and Corleone, who boasted that financial security wouldn’t stop them from indulging in carjacking because they just like doing it. Because it’s exciting.

Pretty much by default, the mental process – such as it is – is see it, want it, take it. The fear and degradation of the victim is just icing on the cake. A point expanded on by a carjacker named Tall: “It’s a rush thing… when you’re pulling someone out the car… Just a rush come over me… I mean, I feel good.” And likewise, Big Mix, who found his victims’ terror a “kick,” and indeed “hilarious.” And the aforementioned PoPo, who boasted, “It’s funny just to see them shaking and pissing all over theyself.”

Again, I suspect Mike, our Democratic Socialist, would be annoyed by people hearing such things. But not by the carjackers themselves, of course. 

In power Mike would make sure you never got to know.

Heh. Well, yes. Does seem quite likely, given the opportunity. Presumably, the rest of us must be made to listen to criminals, to be empathetic, and to then gush with pretentious sympathy. But we mustn’t listen to them when they boast of delighting in utterly gratuitous and sadistic behaviour. 

Mike is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists, which does rather suggest a leaning towards unrealism and moral perversity. Such that, if you suggest that habitually violent criminals, like the ones quoted above, should, you know, be imprisoned, Mike will call you a “fascist.”

That Mike likes to respond to people who disagree with him by calling them names and shouting about how frightened and “dumb” they are, compared to his heroic and terribly clever self, is not at all surprising. It’s practically a signature of the type.

As we’ve seen many times, a person’s politics may be shaped to a large extent by their personality. And Mike’s personality… leaves something to be desired. His emphatic position isn’t simply a result of misunderstanding. There’s motivation there.

I gather it’s a festive day over yonder in the colonies. I shall raise a glass of something this evening. Have a good one.