Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld is questioning whether there is a “need to make war” in an attempt to bring peace in the country.
During a segment of “The Five” Thursday evening, Gutfeld said, “Let’s compare the rights between criminals and victims. OK, the criminals they get a mulligan. They get to steal up to $900 worth of stuff; they can loiter, sleep, and shoot up in public areas, including playgrounds; they can loot and burn and call it social justice; they can pile up dozens of arrests and never do time.”
“Meanwhile, what about us? Well, we have to change our lives to accommodate risk wherever we go. We have to move out of cities for the sake of the safety of our families and our own safety. That’s what’s happening, we’re being driven out of cities by the ‘oppressed,’ so I return to my imperfect analogy from yesterday,” he continued.
He went on to talk about the Civil War and how “we knew slavery was inhumane and immoral, but somehow we couldn’t solve slavery peacefully. It was an evil, but one side refused to acknowledge that it was evil because it was too big of an admission of them to make.”
“Doesn’t that feel that way now? That this defiant refusal to reverse this decline argues against the survival of a country? What does that leave you with? It leaves you with you need to make war to bring peace because you have a side that cannot change,” Gutfeld insisted.
Liberal co-host Harold Ford Jr. suggested, “Or we have an election.”
Watch the video below:
Greg Gutfeld says "elections don't work" and "society is in peril and chaos because our elections don’t matter" while urging for a new American civil war.
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 5, 2023
In the following tweets, I will transcribe everything he says in this clip, because it goes into some very dark territory. pic.twitter.com/2FLCz5ptCP
Gutfeld fired back, “Elections don’t work. We know that. We know they don’t work. Look what we have. Look what we have. We had a moderate president and we have crime exploding everywhere.”
“We had a Democrat president promise that he was going to be moderate, promise that he was going to unite the country, and now we have a terrible education system, we have no border, we have crime everywhere. Every facet of society is in peril and in chaos because our elections don’t matter,” he added.
The claim elections do not work is bizarre. Yes, politicians can lie and dissemble and present a different face than how they actually intend to govern. That’s unfortunately part of a democratic system and ambitious politicians seeking to gain power, but it doesn’t mean elections do not work.
Besides, the president only has so much power to impact the day-to-day life in cities and localities. Addressing crime is much more up to local leaders than the President of the United States. For all his talk about law and order, former President Donald Trump was not that successful in shutting down the rioting and looting in 2020.
That’s not necessarily his fault or failure, but a symptom of the way our federal and state governments are set up.
Voters in areas that are plagued by crime are going to have to endure those conditions until they have enough and decide to vote for politicians who will adopt tough-on-crime measures. History would suggest that it could be years or decades, but eventually, the voters will simply say: Enough, we can’t take it anymore.
Conservatives like to claim that America is facing some unprecedented, existential threat from leftism that requires drastic action. While the current times may seem dark and scary, they are not entirely without precedent.
We’ve had violent times in our history when fellow Americans were at each other’s throats, but we resolved them without declaring war to dominate and beat the other side into submission.
Yet this idea that change isn’t happening fast enough or at all, and elections are useless therefore we must defeat the other side is not a recipe for unity and healing. All it does is further undermine faith in the parts of our system of government that have stood for nearly 250 years and sows unnecessary doubt in the resiliency of our grand experiment.
