9/14/2023
There is NO PERSONAL RESPONSIBIITY IN THE DEM’S BOOK.
Who is leading the country – not Biden? Is it the jack-booted thug called Obama?
The Democratic Party appears vulnerable on what is, or used to be, one of the fundamentals of American life—personal responsibility.
What’s new? Just take a look at the White House and the blue states with the AG/crime – all paid off by Soros and his OPEN SOCIETY which has put the country in the gutter – but richly paid off.
CHAOS gives them more leverage over WE THE PEOPLE. Good example is Jan6 – Pelosi’s baby. The Durham Report proved and named names and those same folks have not been arrested; but, are still using the same tactics to harness the country.
Now THEY ARE TOUTING – NO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
We shall see how the American people will be voting and to see if they want these AIR HEADS to continue without using the CONSTITUTION AND WASTING OUR TAXPAYER MONEY.
The most important part IS TO PROTECT OUR ELECTION/VOTES IN 2024 and not let them cheat. Just think how many years they have been cheating. The fellow that you are looking at is just one of them.
The Democrats Have Demoted Personal Responsibility© Michael Brochstein/Zuma Press
There is a school of thought in Republican circles that the culture wars, or “wokeness,” is a losing proposition for the party’s presidential candidates. They should stick instead to Joe Biden’s most poll-evident liabilities—the economy and personal competence.
The argument against elevating the culture wars comes down to two issues—abortion and gender ideology. The party’s voter problems with settling on broadly acceptable abortion limitations are evident. Gender ideology, such as the DeSantis-Disney dispute, is considered too hot button, though the rise of the so-called parents-rights movement over gender-preference notification—in Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina and California—looks like a problem for Democrats.
I think it would be a mistake for Republican candidates to stop talking about the culture. Suddenly, the Democratic Party appears vulnerable on what is, or used to be, one of the fundamentals of American life—personal responsibility.
Because parents pass it along, most people understand what personal responsibility is. But increasingly, that is no longer true. Intentionally or not, recent Democratic policies are weakening the habit of personal responsibility.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York issued a statement just before Labor Day in support of the federal decriminalization of marijuana. This was in the week that players and spectators at tennis’s U.S. Open complained of being overwhelmed by the smell of dope at the event, as is true everywhere in New York City now.
Though many states have legalized marijuana, one senses a growing unease among the public that this movement isn’t totally harmless. The Biden administration and Sen. Schumer are blowing past those concerns.
Sen. Schumer’s statement was specifically about a step just taken by the Health and Human Services Department, at Mr. Biden’s request, toward all but eliminating federal penalties for marijuana possession. Commenting at the White House, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, in a tortured statement even by her standards, claimed that the decriminalization decision will be “guided by the evidence.
But will it? In the same week as this announcement, Columbia University health researchers released a study that found significantly elevated levels of lead and cadmium in the urine of marijuana users. The reason, they explained, is the cannabis plant is a known “hyperaccumulator” of many metals found naturally in soil. The authors warn: “Because marijuana is relatively unregulated in an industry experiencing exponential growth, there is a need to understand contaminant exposures, including metals, associated with marijuana use.”
Making it easier for people to pump lead and cadmium into their brains doesn’t seem like a good idea. But the chance any such science-based evidence will alter the Biden-Schumer goal of normalizing marijuana use is zero. That’s what is troubling about recent Democratic social-policy decisions: The downside consequences seem irrelevant to them.
At the state level, they weakened penalties for shoplifting. As with marijuana legalization, this is justified in part to reduce racial disparities in arrests. But the result has been an epidemic of violent store robberies. The New York Post reported this week about a bar owner on Manhattan’s Upper West Side who was told by an underage thief: “The police can’t arrest me. I’m just a kid.”
It’s striking there was no provision in these decriminalizations for the possibility of misbehavior. One is left to conclude this was a conscious, deliberate demotion of personal responsibility.
Is there a bigger policy initiative in the Biden administration than the elimination of student debt? This policy is manifestly aimed at locking up the Biden vote among recent college graduates. But it implicitly legitimizes the instinct to shirk a personal obligation.
The Biden open-border policy has let millions jump the immigration line, signaling that anyone waiting in the real line for years is a chump. Earlier this year congressional Democrats opposed work requirements in welfare programs for able-bodied adults under 50 without children. Why work?
Gallup’s August poll said 79% are “dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States.” The Biden White House is frustrated it isn’t getting more credit for an improving economy. The reality may be that cultural erosion is one reason people are unhappy with “the way things are going.”
A recent CNN poll has Nikki Haley doing best in a head-to-head match-up with Mr. Biden, leading 49% to 43%. What intrigued me for the subject of this column is that her support among voters 35 to 64 ranged from 51% to 54%. (Tim Scott and Mike Pence showed similar numbers against the president.) Their support for Mr. Biden is 39%.
I’d call these voters Generation Family. It’s parents struggling daily to instill some degree of self-control in their children against the tsunami of anything-goes social media—and increasingly, responsibility-free public policy.
Neither Joe Biden nor the Republican front-runner can talk with much credibility on this subject. But the erosion of personal responsibility is a legitimate voting issue that the other GOP presidential candidates should keep in front of the American people.
Write henninger@wsj.com.
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