The More Victims It Can Create, The More The Left Succeeds

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 The More Victims It Can Create, The More The Left Succeeds

Like showbiz agents, the left is the real winner from their culture of victimhood. The more successful they are, the more victims they create.

By J.T. Young
April 23, 2021

Victimhood is big business. Not coincidentally, it also has become the left’s favored means for pursuing redistribution of resources. As such, it is an economic exercise with economic consequences, and nothing has benefited more from these consequences than the left.

A quick scan of headlines shows the lucrative nature of victimhood today. It’s not only big business but small business as well — or at least that’s what Planned Parenthood tried to parlay it into. Despite being neither victim (just the opposite) nor a small business, and certainly not an intended recipient of COVID funds, Planned Parenthood raked in $80 million from the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program, which was designed to help small business survive the pandemic.

Led by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., several Republican senators are trying to claw back the money and extract an explanation as to how Planned Parenthood is being allowed to game the PPP program. Yet while Planned Parenthood may have scammed the PPP, they didn’t game victimhood. Indeed, what they did is part and parcel of the left’s victimhood progression. To the left, today’s victimhood is less focused on being a victim and more focused on cashing in.

Although the politics of victimhood is readily apparent, the economics of victimhood is far less so, but no less real. Currently, there are few more powerful political attributes than being proclaimed a victim. To be acknowledged as a victim gives an individual or a group far greater leverage in political or societal conflicts than mere sympathy alone. It’s also far more lucrative.

Often ignored in victimhood’s political leverage is that it is usually used to obtain resources. Victimhood frequently, if not inevitably, leads to compensation — money, access, power, notoriety. Furthermore, as the allocation of resources is the core of economics, victimhood has come to have a clear economic element.

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https://thefederalist.com/2021/04/23/the-more-victims-it-can-create-the-more-the-left-succeeds/

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Without a constituency of victims, there is no Democratic Party. They rely on half of their constituents believing they've been wronged and deserve a gigantic payoff for their victimhood.
If the Dem Party leaders told them the truth, they create their own problems, they'd never elect another Dem to national office.