It is not inconsistent. Although it may seem strange that an ideological group can change its position with the wind, what makes them consistent is how they wish to be perceived. The left, for example, has made it very clear that they are the side who champions the poor and cares about them.
This comes out in many different ways, but hardly in a way that actually shows that they’re the ones looking out for the best interests of these put-upon groups.
This is done in virtue signaling. It involves claiming a moral position in public. Twitter has become the main platform for virtue-signaling. Anyone can post a claim that they believe in a particular value or moral, but not have to actually prove them.
In 2018, when Donald Trump first addressed the issue of immigration, leftists were riding high. Stephen King, the author was one of those on the left most worried about opening our land to illegal immigrant. He called Christians and the right selfish. Nancy Pelosi, who was also shamed for refusing to embrace illegal aliens, could be compared.
Samantha Bee even famously called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” over Trump’s handling of the border.
(READ: When it comes to immigration, the Left has a massive hypocrisy problem)
These people were they allowing illegal immigrants to live in their properties and homes? I’m sure you already know the answer to that.
They all lived in expensive, well-protected homes. Pelosi had multiple residences, but none were intended to be used for illegal immigration. King lives in a Maine gated residence, which is far from the border. He has also not allowed immigrants to his house.
Bee lives in an extremely white area and is ready to take action to prevent poor non-whites moving in, if necessary.
You can still see it. Anti-gun activist and ardent virtue-signaling leftist David Hogg attempted to guilt trip Harvard into reprioritizing the homeless so that they wouldn’t have to sleep on the cold ground.
“As I walk from class to work every day, I pass many people lying on the floor, outside an institution that has over $53billion. It is the wealthiest country in the world. Our issue isn’t resources- it’s priorities,” he tweeted.
I walk to class every day passing people sleeping in the cold on the ground- outside an institution with over $53 billion, in a state that purports to be one of the most progressive in the country, In the richest country on the planet.
Our issue isn’t resources- it’s priorities
— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) November 28, 2021
What a wonderful guy…but maybe he should prove it as former MLB star Lenny Dykstra highlighted by suggesting Hogg allow them to sleep in his dorm.
Hogg, like everyone else who’s been called out for this obvious hypocrisy, hasn’t responded.
While it’s right and good to consider someone like Saul Alinsky a bad person, his Rules for Radicals actually does a great job of highlighting psychological warfare. One of the rules is rule number four: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Alinsky was dealing with a religious right that wasn’t perfect, and each time someone was exposed for a hypocrite they were dogged and dragged until they buckled. Today, it’s the left that can be considered more like the religious dogmatists of old, only their religion is the religion of power and self-aggrandizement.
They don’t actually believe in helping the homeless, they just want you to believe they believe in it. You can let them live by the virtue signal, but it’s not necessary for them to use rule 4. People like Bee and Hogg should live up to their standards. Make them constantly look at their reflection to discredit their unrealistic standards. Anyone on the left who is praising themselves as holier than thou should follow this example.
If they truly believed this stuff they would practice it, but they don’t.
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