The left’s war on minorities, the poor, and working Americans—similar in NZ

The following is from DISCOVERTHENETWORKS.ORG. It is a cover page for an in-depth look into how left-wing policies have failed minorities in America; it covers the bullet points outlined below. If you have time, I strongly recommend you click here and then click the links under IN DEPTH on their site—there are some really interesting reads there.

Even though the in-depth articles pertain to America the liberal ruses of ‘social justice,’ ‘equality’ and ‘compassion’ can be mirrored across the western world. Their article ‘How the Welfare State Has Devastated African Americans’ is almost a mirror image of New Zealand’s problem with Maori welfare; welfare has devastated Maori in much the same way as it has devastated African Americans.

“THE LEFT'S WAR ON MINORITIES, THE POOR, & WORKING AMERICANS

The policies of the socialist left, under the banners of "social justice," "equality," and "compassion," have inflicted catastrophe in many forms—poverty, moral decline, criminality, violence, illness, and death—upon countless millions of people. The programs and policies that led to these disastrous outcomes were often promoted by "progressives" as expressions of high-minded "liberal" idealism that promised to improve the living conditions not only of people in great need, but also of those in the middle class.

Leftists view their own prescriptions for all manner of social ills—e.g., racism, sexism, homophobia, intolerance, greed, alienation—as solutions uniquely rooted in enlightenment and decency. (By contrast, they portray conservative social policy as the outgrowth of selfishness, greed and mean-spiritedness.) But the solutions they have advanced in the form of social and ideological crusades, often prosecuted with messianic zeal, have actually brought immense, needless suffering to the very same "victims" in whose names they have acted.

Specifically, this section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines:

• how a host of leftist attitudes and public policies have inflicted incalculable harm on the black community;
• how the welfare state in particular has devastated African Americans, miring them in decade upon decade of family breakdown, poverty, and criminal victimization;
• how the housing crisis of 2008, which was a direct result of leftwing government policies that forced lending institutions to abandon the common-sense practices they had traditionally employed, plundered the wealth of nonwhites and wiped out literally decades of economic progress they had made;
• how the public education system, dominated by leftist ideology and unfailingly supportive of the Democratic Party, has consigned generations of blacks & Hispanics to academic failure and, consequently, to lives of poverty and underachievement;
• how left-wing law-enforcement policies in Democrat-controlled black and Hispanic population centers have needlessly sent millions of minorities to early graves;
• the massive costs that the ever-expanding welfare state imposes on American taxpayers;
• how the radical gay Left's refusal to accept traditional public-health practices needlessly caused hundreds of thousands of homosexuals to die of AIDS;
• the ill-advised tax-and-spend policies that plunged the state of California into economic ruin; and
• the fiscal irresponsibility that led directly Illinois' economic demise.”