Will the DSA’s Politics of Envy Work on Michigan Democrats?
Derek Hunter
I was born in Michigan, I was raised in Michigan, I went to school and college in Michigan, and still consider myself a Michigander in most ways. But I don’t really recognize Michigan anymore, at least not as the Michigan of most of my life. The Democrat primary election Tuesday will show me if the Michigan I remember still exists, or if it is dead and buried under a pile of progressive rubble and terrorist sympathies.
I’ve always been a conservative, as far back as I can remember. The IDEA of communism or socialism (and there really isn’t much difference between the two) never made any sense to me because I knew history and human nature.
There are a lot of lazy people who, even when their basic comfort depends on it, will not conduct themselves in a way that helps better their lives. They will not do what is necessary so they can hold a job. For that, which is essentially anti-social behavior, their quality of life, honestly, sucks. As cruel as it sounds, they’ve earned it. In fact, it might be the only thing in life they’ve actually earned themselves.
These are the people to whom the radical left appeals – people who feel cheated by the fact that everyone around them has improved their lives and they have been floundering. That they’ve been floundering by choice, or as a direct result of the choices they’ve made, never occurs to them. They’re owed something; what they’re unclear about, but they want it and much more. They deserve things because they exist, and nothing is going to change their belief in that.
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