{"id":11951,"date":"2019-08-19T12:09:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11951"},"modified":"2019-08-19T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T19:09:35","slug":"cosmic-injustice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/cosmic-injustice\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosmic Injustice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority. These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2011\/01\/bloomberg-syndrome-victor-davis-hanson\/\">Mayor Michael Bloomberg<\/a>&nbsp;used to sermonize to the nation about gun-control, global warming, the perils of super-sized soft drinks, smoking, and fatty-foods in his efforts to virtue signal his moral&nbsp;<em>fides<\/em>\u2014even as his New York was nearly paralyzed by the 2010 blizzard that trapped millions of his city\u2019s residents in their homes due to inept and incompetent city efforts to remove snow. Or is the \u201cBloomberg syndrome\u201d worse than that\u2014in the sense that sounding saintly in theory psychologically compensates for being powerless in fact? Or is it a fashion tic of the privileged to show abstract empathy?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/08\/18\/cosmic-injustice\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority. These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-36L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4072,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-bloomberg-syndrome\/","url_meta":{"origin":11951,"position":0},"title":"The Bloomberg Syndrome","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 24, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services After the recent Tucson, Ariz., shootings, Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. 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