Puerto Rico Enters the 'Great American Victim Derby'

[Right_in_Virginia]

Puerto Rico Enters the 'Great American Victim Derby'
PJ Media, Oct 1, 2017, Roger L. Simon

Seems like everyone's a victim in the USA these days, from college "snowflakes" who can't abide someone with views unlike theirs within miles of their campuses to allegedly assaulted women wearing sexually explicit hats to multi-millionaire football players who are sure there's something wrong but can't always remember what it is (other than Donald Trump).  The latest of the many entries in this "Great American Victim Derby" is Puerto Rico -- or at least a significant part of the island's leadership.

Who will win this derby?

It's anybody's guess, but the thing about playing the victim game is that even -- perhaps especially -- when you do win, you're even more likely to continue to be a victim and play some more.  Victimhood is self-perpetuating -- a spiritual, emotional, political, and economic rerun out of the movie "Groundhog Day." Every year it's the same thing and nothing changes.  Something bad happens and there you go again, drinking from the trough until you pass out like a fraternity boy being hazed for the thousandth time.


Read more:   https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/10/01/puerto-rico-enters-great-american-victim-derby/

[goatprairie]

Katrina and now Puerto Rico reveal one of the most horrible aspects of socialism...it infantilizes people. It makes them trust gov. to handle all their problems without them doing much or anything themselves.
When Israel was taking in Jewish immigrants from around the world, the neediest immigrants were the ones from the Soviet Union and other socialist states. They struggled adapting to life in a country that expected citizens to make their own lives.
 Those people did not know how to do things for themselves as they had let gov. do everything for them.