We’re at a fork in the road to hell

Mar 8, 2019 by

by Robert James, The Conservative Woman:

[…]  The Establishment in this country has no intention nor expectation of solving the knife crime problem. It cannot have because it knows, or at least its more intelligent and cunning members know, that it is forbidden even to talk about the real causes of the problem, almost all of which have been caused by so-called progressive politics, to the ideas of which all main British political parties subscribe. To contradict received wisdom on crime is to commit a cardinal error, and you will be toast by the following lunchtime once Radio 4’s Today, BBC news generally, Channel Four News, columnists in the Independent, the Times, the Guardian and the pathological carping on social media have done with you. The Left have created a language of control that efficiently deals with dissent against its dogma. Anyone questioning the neo-Marxist interpretation of crime – that it is merely a question of poverty and a lack of state spending – will be traduced openly or in coded comments as a racist, a fascist, a Right-wing loony, a reactionary, swivel-eyed, unhelpful, stupid, backward-looking etc.

As regards backward-looking, you do not have to be that old to remember a time when this country did not have the problem of widespread child-on-child knife murders. Stab killings are at their highest since records began in 1946. Many on the Left subscribe to the Whig interpretation of history which maintains that everything is basically moving in an improving direction. Whigs, interpret the knife crime problem for me, please.

What are the real causes of violent crime? One quality national newspaper this week listed what it thought they were. It opined that the problem was caused by cuts to public services, county lines gangs, middle-class drug users, alcohol, high-harm and repeat offenders, social media and drill music, homelessness and school exclusions.

No doubt some of those are factors. However, there was no mention of the real causes, some of which are obviously implicated in the above list: widespread fatherlessness and the weakening of the traditional family as the prime building block of a civilisation; the undermining of adult authority; a society diseased by disrespect; policing weakened if not paralysed by cultural Marxism and long interference by politicians and radical lawyers; weak sentencing; a demoralised welfare culture; rapid social and cultural change brought about by massive immigration from cultures sometimes with values and attitudes at odds with our own; the core Judeo-Christian values of Britain turned upside down from school onwards.

I doubt whether you will hear anything more about any of that from our political and media class.

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See also: Society’s dystopian trends and the church’s response, by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream (from April 2018)

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