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The Party of Empathy… | by David Strom – HotAir

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The Party of Empathy... | by David Strom – HotAir

I have a bookmark folder on X called “Democrat hate.” 

When I think about it, I toss especially hateful posts into the folder as potential fodder for articles. I rarely dip into them unless some particularly prominent person utters some particularly hateful thing. Still, it is striking how many posts I find of Democrats wishing death or suffering on people for the crime of seeing things differently than they do. 





What prompted me to dip into this well was the liberal reaction to the flash flood tragedy in Texas. 

Two things stood out: the hoax that the National Weather Service failed to put out warnings due to DOGE cuts, and the liberals who went out on X and Bluesky crowing about how Texans deserved the flood.

The first slander–that the NWS fell down on the job and failed to warn that floods were imminent–is just false. The first warnings were put out about 12 hours before the flash flood. Updated flood warnings–this time flash flood warnings–came out hours before, and anybody with a weather radio or a smartphone should have been warned. 





Further, the NWS had more than doubled its staff in the region when it looked like storms might be coming–paying 3 people overtime to ensure that information was gathered and dispersed as quickly as possible. 

Having lived in the Southwest, I can tell you that flash floods are a part of life in the region. In Tucson, where I grew up, there were dry arroyos that suddenly became raging torrents–and I do mean suddenly–because the ground does not absorb water; it accumulates in low-lying areas and becomes a mighty, temporary river, as if a dam broke. 

In northern Tucson, there is a riverbed known as the Rillito River. It is filled with tumbleweeds and substantially below the surrounding land. When it rains, it becomes a raging river, slowly carving out a canyon that is dry for most of the time, and a dangerous threat on the rare occasions it rains. You can walk right through it most of the time, but it can kill on a bad day. 





Flash floods happen, and while tragedies of the scale of the one in Texas are thankfully rare, people dying in flash floods is not. No amount of government spending will stop that from being a reality–contrary to popular belief, neither the government nor the Jews control the weather or climate. 

Whatever people think, we have not tamed nature. The best we can do is give people warnings about the dangers that exist. But if you think governments can prevent bad things from happening, you are deluded. And if you think that warnings will prevent tragedies, you are also mistaken. People live in or go to dangerous places–how many people live at the base of volcanoes, or in earthquake zones? 

The glee with which a certain kind of liberal responded to the tragedy is not an outlier–during COVID, liberals were quite open about their desire for conservatives to die. Democrats wanted to put vaccine skeptics in camps, take away their children, deny them health care (and in many cases did deny them health care–in many places you still can’t get an organ transplant without getting a COVID vaccine). Jimmy Kimmel famously joked that unvaccinated people with heart attacks should be left to die. 





It all comes down to that sense you find in many liberals that they are the good people and we are the bad people. As I wrote the other day, this is the French Revolution mentality that ascribes all bad things to the existence of bad people. The road to a good society is getting rid of the bad people. Leftist societies always wind up with their version of concentration camps or the guillotine. 

It’s bizarre–liberals follow policies that take lovely places like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle and turn them into sewers or burned-out husks, and liberals sing Kumbaya. A flash flood comes out of nowhere, and Donald Trump gets blamed, and X becomes filled with posts about how Texans deserved it. 

Of course, people from any ideological persuasion can be self-satisfied jerks, but as far as I can tell, the main claim to political legitimacy for the left is that they are the compassionate ones. Conservatives tend to focus on results, while liberals emphasize intentions to justify the legitimacy of their rule. 





Well, I question the intentions because I see the results. 







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