Running out of victims

The decline of the Democratic party

Following the lead of Woodrow Wilson and FDR, the Dems have worked nonstop to create high-sounding social programs, virtually all of which were meant to help the "little guy." Or, at least were touted to help the little guy. Inevitably, this “little guy” was portrayed as the “victim” in the “victim/oppressor” dialectic. In classical Marxism, this began as the Proletariat versus the Bourgeoisie.

Not surprisingly, then, the first victim group identified in the never-ending battle for social justice was the workers. At this point, let’s try to define “social justice.”

social justice, in contemporary politics, social science, and political philosophy, the fair treatment and equitable status of all individuals and social groups within a state or society.¹ Keep this definition in mind…

Following workers on the victim hit parade were the poor; women; racial and ethnic minorities; homosexuals; and the physically and mentally disabled. The social justice movement was dramatically energized with the passage of 1964’s Civil Rights Act. The Act focused on voting rights, public accommodations, school desegregation, nondiscrimination in federally assisted programs, and more.

Blacks were the primary victims addressed in this legislation. One might ask why this Act was even necessary, since the 14th amendment had been in place since 1868. In the very first section it clearly states:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Oddly enough, de jure discrimination happily proceeded for 96 years, with a few brief interludes spawned by the Brown v. Board of Education case (1954). Brown, of course, overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine prescribed by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). You’ve got to love constitutional law, right? Precedent is all important—until it isn’t. In truth, it's nothing more than politics, and never has been.

At any rate, the Civil Rights Act really opened the floodgates on social justice. While a few brave souls (including Barry Goldwater) predicted that it could—and would—soon deteriorate into a never-ending flow of more victims and more causes, not to mention a giant network of bureaucracies and NGOs, virtually all “conservatives” kept quiet about it.

As to Goldwater, he had always been a champion of civil rights within his own state of Arizona. Cold comfort that he lost the 1964 presidential election in a landslide to Lyndon Johnson, who was able to tread on his SIGNING the Civil Rights Act, despite hardly being a huge proponent. Well, in a way he was, as he purportedly boasted: “I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for 200 years.”

After homosexuals entered the victim pantheon, they were followed by transgenders, and our latest group, illegal aliens. But, how do these groups comport with the above definition of “social justice”? Where do fair treatment and equitable status fit in? By their very nature, certain claims by either of these groups would violate other societal rules.

Should an illegal alien have the rights of citizens? Should a man cosplaying as a woman get to compete with real women in sports? Such questions would never have arisen ten years ago, but in their search for new victims, the Dems find themselves violating Title IX, and raising up Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man already subject to deportation orders, whose wife filed two protective orders against him.

And don’t forget the many “Jews” who are arguing against Trump’s actions to stop antisemitism on college campuses. You shouldn’t be too surprised by all this. Marxism (now the essential philosophy of the Dems) has always been a bankrupt paradigm.

1. Duignan, Brian. "social justice". Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2025, https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-justice. Accessed 17 April 2025.