Ana Kasparian Sees The Light?
If you are not familiar with The Young Turks, it is a so-called progressive outfit that exists mostly on YouTube. It actually started as a radio programme in 2002, before YouTube came into existence and when the Internet was a tiny fraction of the size and influence it is today.
The main man at The Young Turks is Cenk Uygur; Ana Kasparian has been with the network since 2007 and is the top woman there, often co-presenting with Cenk. While The Young Turks does do some decent reporting, its bias can be absolutely outrageous, particularly against Donald Trump whom it has trashed to High Heaven. Recently however, Ana has risen above the nastiness, and if she isn’t yet ready to vote for Trump, she has abandoned a great many progressive so-called values.
This appears to have been due in part to a horrible incident some time ago. Ana married in 2015 and lives in Los Angeles. One day while walking her dog, two ne’er-do-wells passed her in the street and one of them grabbed her, “humping” her in a suggestive motion. Then they walked off laughing.
This isn’t the sort of thing most women expect to happen in broad daylight; it was clearly a sexual assault – Ana said she felt the man’s erection – and although she doesn’t appear to have reported it to the police, when she told her friends, she was more horrified by their reaction than she was by the incident itself. They accused her of stereotyping homeless people; doubtless her husband saw things differently.
There is a well-known saying that there are no enemies on the left, meaning that unlike the right, which is often fractured, leftists will generally ignore their differences and come together to fight (often imaginary) enemies. Ana’s view is the polar opposite, namely that there are no friends on the left, and if you don’t accept every aspect of the dogma- the current thing, as it were – you will be ostracised.
The catalyst for this attitude was the nationwide and to some extent worldwide riots that followed the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. Whether or not his death was actual murder, it was used as a pretext to cause massive destruction, including murder, and to enable rogue prosecutors to inflict even worse on the American public. To give just one recent shocking example from New York, it is fashionable for men, who are either mentally disturbed or just evil, to walk up to women in the street and punch them. The victims are mostly, young white women, but not all of them. Dulce Pichardo is far from young; one of these psychos punched her in the face so hard that her jaws had to be wired shut. The perpetrator was arrested and was back on the street in the blink of an eye.
In the UK, this would have been charged as grievous bodily harm, and even for someone with no previous convictions, a sentence of three years might be considered lenient. A crime of this nature committed in Saudi Arabia, Singapore or China would result in far worse.
Although New York is on the other side of the country from where Ana lives, the common factor is so-called progressive prosecutors and progressive local government officials.
People at the bottom of the food chain often end up in and out of prison, serving what has been called a life sentence on the installment plan, usually for petty crimes like shoplifting, but punching a stranger in the face and indecently assaulting a woman in the street are not petty crimes, nor do they have the faux mitigation that the moronic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggests shoplifters have.
As anyone who has been following America’s downward spiral will realise, shoplifting is also anything but a petty crime, certainly when it is organised and carried out on an industrial scale. It has led to Walgreens and other chains closing stores in working class areas, something AOC’s fellow progressive moron Ayana Pressley blames on racism.
Ana Kasparian is one (former?) progressive who has decided she doesn’t want to live in a society that doesn’t protect people’s property or persons, and there is a lot more where that came from in Los Angeles.
San Francisco has its infamous poop map, but Los Angeles also has a massive homeless population who do not have ready access to toilets, so many...fill in the blank.
Homelessness is serious and isn’t a single problem, but the policies enacted by Gavin Newsom have made a bad problem worse. Then there is the trans madness, something Ana is far from happy with. After warning against the dangers of providing puberty blockers to the young, she was branded transphobic. Surprise, surprise. Then there is the migrant crisis which now affects many major cities. The criminal gangs and all the other ills associated with this can no longer be dismissed as racism when blacks in New York, Chicago and elsewhere publicly castigate their Democrat overlords like Brandon Johnson.
Ana Kasparian is still presenting for The Young Turks, and is still castigating Donald. It remains to be seen how long she will remain there, but hopefully it won’t take another indecent assault or worse for her to realise that, in the words of Dan Bongino, Republicans are not the cure for all her problems, but Democrats are their cause.