Greg Gutfeld, cohost of Fox News’ popular show “The Five,” raised a few eyebrows Thursday when he compared the left’s failed policies playing out in society today to the immorality of slavery, suggesting a similar outcome may be needed to force a surrender.
“Let’s compare the rights between criminals and victims,” Gutfeld said. “Okay, the criminals they get a mulligan. They get to steal up to 8-900 dollars worth of stuff; they can loiter, sleep, and shoot up in public areas, including playgrounds; they can loot and burn and call it social justice; they can pile up dozens of arrests and never do time.”
“Meanwhile, what about us? Well, we have to change our lives to accommodate risk wherever we go,” he continued. “We have to move out of cities for the sake of the safety of our families and our own safety. That’s what’s happening, we’re being driven out of cities by the ‘oppressed,’ so I return to my imperfect analogy from yesterday.”
The solution Gutfeld speaks to is civil war — he’s far from alone in feeling this way.
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“We had a war over slavery. We knew slavery was inhumane and immoral, but somehow we couldn’t solve slavery peacefully,” Gutfeld said. “It was an evil, but one side refused to acknowledge that it was evil because it was too big of an admission of them to make.”
“Doesn’t that feel that way now?” he asked. “That this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues against the survival of a country? What does that leave you with? It leaves you with you need to make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change, because then that means an admission that their beliefs have been corrupt all the time, so in a way you have to force them to surrender.”
“Or we could make love not war,” co-host Jesse Watters quipped, prompting Gutfeld to counter, “I tried that once. I had to go to a doctor.”
Former Democratic Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. was quick to chime in: “Or we have an election.”
“Elections don’t work. We know that. We know they don’t work,” Gutfeld shot back. “Look what we have. Look what we have. We had a moderate president and we have crime exploding everywhere. We had a Democrat president promise that he was going to be moderate, promise that he was going to unite the country, and now we have a terrible education system, we have no border, we have crime everywhere. Every facet of society is in peril and in chaos because our elections don’t matter.”
“No. Elections do matter. We don’t need to go to war for it, we go to the election booth and vote the people out who don’t do the things you say,” Ford responded.
Of course, the Democrat understands his party has sizable electoral advantages in most urban areas and that corporate media is largely in their corner, as well as a plethora of three-letter agencies in the federal government — see the 2020 election.
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Tom Tillison grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills. Tillison also contributes to BizPac Review.
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