Remember the “defund the police” movement among Democratic Party mayors across the country? When crime shot up like a rocket, they were all wondering why it happened and placing blame on anything but themselves. Chicago is a great example. The mayor and Aldermen voted to transfer millions from the police budget to social programs thinking they could appease crime, then they didn’t hire replacements for the hundreds of police that retired or resigned. Violent crime continues to escalate and city officials just can’t figure out why. Now, Chicago faces another crisis of stupidity and it is exemplary of the liberal mindset that refuses to see the consequences of their actions and then shifts the blame to others.
Chicago Alderman Brian Hopkins went on Fox News Channel’s January 4 “America Reports” and whined about how the city leaders just never imagined that becoming a sanctuary city would attract such a burden of homelessness and crime. He told co-host Sandra Smith that nobody “had any idea that it would lead to this today” and that the current predicament “was completely unpredicted and it’s completely unprecedented and nobody thought a sanctuary city would mean what it means.” When Smith reminded him that the city leadership said “we’re a sanctuary city, all are welcome, wasn’t that the message,” Hopkins replied that it isn’t his message and passed blame on to city leaders in the 1980s.
Hopkins responded, “Yes, you’re not hearing that from me. I think if we had to vote all over again on authorization for whether Chicago is going to be a sanctuary city, I’m not sure we would be. In fact, we tried to put a referendum on the ballot in March coming up to ask the voters, do you want to be a sanctuary city? And the mayor and his team blocked that effort. So, we don’t know if there is political will to continue being a sanctuary city. But I will say this: Our status as a sanctuary city first was established way back in the ’80s. This is not new. We put this flag in the ground a long time ago. No one, at that time, had any idea that it would lead to this today.”
The Free Dictionary says, “One’s sins or mistakes always catch up with one. The idea of retribution is, of course, very old, recorded in ancient Greek and Roman writings. Virgil’s Aeneid, for example, has it, “Now do thy sinful deeds come home to thee.” This particular turn of phrase, however, appears to have been invented by the English poet Robert Southey, who wrote it as a motto in “The Curse of Kehama” (1809): “Curses are like young chickens; they always come home to roost.”” Chicago and many other Democrat-run cities are seeing the chickens come home to roost for their foolish leftism. Proverbs 18:2 says, “A fool does not delight in understanding, but only in airing his opinions.” And that’s what these fools do—no attempt to understand their actions, just offer more opinions about the consequences. It’s, say it with me…Stupidocrisy.
Sources:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/chickens+come+home+to+roost
