Let My People Go to Jail

Wingnut welfare bum Thomas Sowell:

When teenage thugs are called "troubled youth" by people on the political left, that tells us more about the mindset of the left than about these young hoodlums.

Seldom is there a speck of evidence that the thugs are troubled, and often there is ample evidence that they are in fact enjoying themselves, as they create trouble and dangers for others.

Why then the built-in excuse, when juvenile hoodlums are called "troubled youth" and mass murderers are just assumed to be "insane"?

At least as far back as the 18th century, the left has struggled to avoid facing the plain fact of evil -- that some people simply choose to do things that they know to be wrong when they do them. Every kind of excuse, from poverty to an unhappy childhood, is used by the left to explain and excuse evil.

One such excuse is the lure of money. It leads people to do and say the strangest things.

All the people who have come out of poverty or unhappy childhoods, or both, and become decent and productive human beings, are ignored. So are the evils committed by people raised in wealth and privilege, including kings, conquerors and slaveowners.

I am stumped! Has anyone on the left written an appreciation of anyone who came from humble circumstances? Or referred to a king or conqueror or slave-owner as evil? No?

It seems to me that there is an opportunity here to put forth some kind of innovative political program.