As I was flipping channels on Sunday morning, watching the
various Sunday Morning News Programs, there was a lot of discussion, naturally,
on the Baltimore Riots.
Everyone on This Week with George Stephanopoulos was talking
about it.
Face the nation had a panel talking about it.
It seemed that everyone had issues they believed contributed
to the problems in the Baltimore area.
Poverty, concentrated poverty, income inequality, and a lack of jobs was
a recurring explanation. The police need
more training. The police need more
psychological training was one line of thought.
One guest even blamed a lack of neighborhood grocery stores
and a deficient transportation system.
Whaaaat?
Nobody talked about individual choices, personal
responsibility, the disintegration of the Nuclear Family, Skyrocketing
out-of-wedlock birthrates in most large urban communities, or the long
rap-sheet of drug charges Freddie Gray had. Nope, no conversation about any of that—those are taboo
subjects on the Sunday morning shows. It was just a lot of gushy, idealistic drivel about how when
people make bad
choices, it is everyone else’s fault; the government is actually at fault--and
must install and pay for more “programs” at once!
And then several panelists mentioned poor education as an
issue.
Bill Kristol piped up after the Bernie Sanders Interview and
threw out a gem, that nobody touched
