Yet another liberal got mugged...literally

 

Proving the old axiom: "a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged."

By Robert Arvay

For the sake of humor, I often email my friends with a news report followed by a parody of it.  Sometimes it is difficult, however, for readers to accept that the real news item is not itself the actual parody.  Here is an example.  According to a report at Fox News, a college student "active in the local Black Lives Matter movement is suddenly all for police patrols in his neighborhood — after he was robbed at gunpoint outside his apartment."

This reminds us of the decades-old truism that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.  In this case, the mugging was literal.  While it is doubtful that the student has now become a Second Amendment right-wing "deplorable" conservative, it is entirely possible that he has finally taken the first baby step toward acknowledging reality – at least that tiny part of it encompassing the fact that policemen are not, it turns out, "hunting down young black men like dogs and murdering them in the street."  That is an inexact quote, but close.  For another quote, an exact one, see here among others.......More