Liberal Guilt

 So yesterday there was a despicable shooting in Buffalo, in a market in a Black neighborhood. A skinny loser white kid, who actually bears some resemblance to the skinny loser white kid who shot up Douglas High in Broward, drove to Buffalo and killed 10 people.

The victims were salt of the earth types, at least the two identified. A retired Buffalo cop working security and the mother of the retired fire chief.

May justice be swift for the racist scum who did this. May the web pages like 4chan where he learned some of the hatred that fueled him, be taken down, and their writers prosecuted as well. It was a tragedy.

But just a bit ago, I read an article in the Sunday NY Times, about the segregated history of the neighborhood where the shooting happened. The subtext was that Buffalo had a nice Black middle class hood, like Overtown was in Miami, and racist planning put in a highway, the Kensington Expressway, in the early 70s, that "ruined" the area. And...so?

Had they not put in the road this wouldn't have happened? Like the psychopathic killer couldn't have found a majority Black group somewhere else to carry out his evil plan?

I have little hope for the future of the Democratic Party because of thinking like the Times' writer. Of course there were segregationist city planning policies -- all over the US. They need to be reversed, of course, in the courts.

But the ultra left doesn't seem to get that elected officials appoint Federal judges, and as long as the Trumpians are in power, ain't nothing going to be done to help.

And the only way forward for the Dems is appealing to centrists -- not by alienating people by telling them THEY'RE the problem.

I heard a great line by Mark Caputo on the radio Thursday -- not sure if it is his or not. He said that the language of the Democratic party used to be the union hall, and now it's the elite college faculty break room.

In Florida, Cubans were always GOP voters, largely, but the rest of the Hispanice tended Democratic. No more -- the I-4 corridor, largely Puerto Ricans from Orlando to Tampa, is skewing more conservative.

DeSantis is going to win re-election so hugely it'll be absurd.

I really dislike losing -- whether a different law firm got a case I wanted, my sports teams, or my political party. And when I DO lose, I despise excuses -- "he didn't play FAIR."

And in current politics, I don't blame Republicans -- they're just outplaying the Dems on so many levels. It took a sociopath president and a centrist Joe Biden to get rid of Trump. If the Dems don't find another Bill Clinton before 2024 -- it'll clearly be Trump 2.0, or DeSantis 1.0.

So of course I feel terrible for what happened in Buffalo. But do I blame the 60s era Buffalo City Commision and Department of Transportation for it? Of course not.