Healthy societies create museums to memorialize historical triumphs. In upside-down world, progressives create museums to celebrate their most conspicuous failures — like public housing:

Set inside a once-dilapidated 1938 building on Chicago’s near West Side, a one-of-a-kind museum hopes to change the perception of public housing in America.

That perception would be that public housing has served as miserable chicken pens for the dependents bred by the welfare state so as to harvest their votes. Housing projects are windows into a hellish future where government dependency facilitates the degeneration of citizens into mooching savages who are useless to anyone except on election day. Chicago’s Cabrini-Green was the iconic representative, actually inspiring a series of horror movies.

Bureaucrats are attempting an image makeover by spending $17.5 million to transform a former federal housing project into the National Public Housing Museum.

It’s the brainchild of public housing residents who wanted to tell a more complete story about their lives, from the joys of living in tight-knit communities to the effects of racist housing policies.

“Tight-knit” could be a reference to gang membership, which tends to be rife among these fatherless communities. The reference to “racist housing policies” confirms that no attempt to preach the religion of Critical Race Theory will go unexploited by moonbats.

Remnants of a paint-chipped wall, with cracks and graffiti, greets visitors at the entrance.

Maybe they also left discarded crack pipes and shell casings to capture the true ambience.

“It’s a museum that says, ‘There are things that everybody deserves,’” said Sunny Fischer, a consultant for foundations, who grew up in public housing and is the museum board’s chair.

Too bad the things leftists think everyone deserves often belong to someone else.

One thing no one deserves is to be born into the nightmare realm of public housing.

On a tip from Dave F.

There is a hard way and an easy way to get what you want where moonbattery prevails, as in the UK. The hard way is to earn it. The easy way is to brandish a defect, real or fabricated, and then make someone else earn it:

If you want a brand new BMW i4 M Sport, you have two choices. The first is to lay out the full £52,770. The second is to tell the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] that your mental health makes it hard to leave the house, claim the enhanced mobility rate of the Personal Independence Payment (Pip), fork out a down payment of £7,999, and get the Government to lease it for you.

In exchange for the mobility component of your benefit, you’ll get a new BMW every three years, your insurance and accident breakdown paid for, your servicing and tyre replacements covered, and your choice of “conventional metallic paint option”.

Subsidizing Bimmers for those who identify as neurotic or otherwise flawed is a big success, accounting for “roughly one in every five new cars sold in Britain.”

What else would you expect in a society that incentivizes victimhood and parasitism, while punishing honesty, dignity, responsibility, and hard work?

As it progressively subjects itself to societal collapse and financial ruin, at least once great Britain serves as a cautionary example to other societies tempted to succumb to liberalism.

On a tip from Steve T.

Compliments of Chuck A.

Looks like Americans sacrificed 620,000 lives in the Civil War in vain. Chicago Mayor Brendan Johnson says America “is being ran” as if the South had won:

“That White House is being ran in one of the most raggedy forms of government that I’ve ever seen. If anybody is questioning whether or not, what our country would look like had the Confederacy won, there should be no question now.”

Chicago is run as if a failed Third World hellhole had won. A city that would produce a mayor like Johnson can only subsist at the expense of the rest of the country.

Despite Chicago having succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, even Johnson’s constituents complain about his disastrous sanctuary city policies. He responds as you might expect — by denouncing America and its core population:

“If they want to have a real discussion about [illegal aliens] who are criminals, they should look at the very individuals who enslaved my people and colonized this land.”

We live in the 21st century, not some distant era in the past. It is Johnson and his people (i.e., Marxist Democrats) doing the enslaving, via taxation and the welfare state. Americans work so that Johnson’s supporters don’t have to.

Modern slavery is increasingly race-based. Johnson took the opportunity to call for “reparations.”

The bloated and corrupt federal government is not our only problem. Big cities are as rotten as the DC Swamp. If they can’t clean them themselves up, they need to be left to their own devices so as not to suck the rest of the country down the drain with them.

On a tip from WDS 2.0. Hat tip: ZeroHedge.

Look at the bright side. Some of the money Big Government loots from your paycheck via taxation and your savings via inflation provides others with enjoyable tropical vacations:

Massachusetts welfare recipients have been using their EBT cards while on tropical vacations to Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and other trips thousands of miles away from their home state, an investigation by the Boston Herald revealed.

While the federal and state governments spent $3 billion on the taxpayer-funded EBT cards in Massachusetts during Fiscal Year 2024, 32 charges were made in Hawaii…

It makes the heart bleed to imagine the downtrodden of Massachusetts having to venture all the way to Hawaii in search of affordable bread for their children.

EBT recipients in the blue state have spent taxpayer dollars in virtually every U.S. state, and all over tourist hotspots in Florida and California.

If we can’t stop its growth, government will eventually force other people to pay for everything. Then there will be no need for anyone to work. Liberal utopia will have been achieved.

On tips from Barry A and WDS 2.0.

Muslims have been trying to eradicate Western Civilization for 1,400 years. At first they largely succeeded, violently driving Christianity from the Middle East and even conquering Constantinople, the capitol of Christendom for a thousand years after the decline of Rome. For the past few centuries, they fell so far behind the West that it seemed they would never finish Mohammad’s mission. But then came moonbattery, featuring open borders and the welfare state:

The cultural consequence:

What they did to Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia, they will soon do to Westminster Abbey.

On tips from WDS 2.0.

The latest new vocabulary term in the Newspeak Dictionary is “humanitarian entrant.” This might be defined as “an illegal alien upon whom Democrats are showering your money”:

PRUCOL stands for “permanent residence under color of law.” It pertains only to free money eligibility, not to actual immigration status. Moochers from abroad can be illegal aliens and still have PRUCOL status.

What’s the difference between “undocumented people” (i.e., foreign invaders acknowledged to be in the USA illegally), PROCUL people, and “humanitarian entrants”? You would have to ask one of the termites comprising the federal bureaucracy.

Democrats didn’t like it when slavery was abolished in this country the century before last. So they instituted a new form of slavery, via the welfare state. You work so that “humanitarian entrants” from other countries don’t have to.

On a tip from R F.

New York State isn’t the only liberal jurisdiction that has escalated the tactic of handing out free money. As usual, San Francisco is among the leaders in the race to ruin:

Mayor London Breed … and Supervisor Matt Dorsey penned a bill called “Cash Not Drugs” which proposes handing out $100, in the form of a gift card or electronic benefit transfer, to some welfare recipients for each negative drug test they complete a week, they announced Monday.

It is the constant infusion of other people’s money that enables their irresponsible drug-oriented lifestyle in the first place.

This is the brightest idea since San Francisco decided to pay criminals $300+/month not to shoot people.

On a tip from Jack D.

The welfare state exists to confiscate wealth from those who create it to buy votes from those who don’t. Aside from our quasi-Marxist rulers, who benefits most from this system? Let’s ask Harrison Deah of General Assistance and Social Services for Westbrook, Maine:

Ninety to 95% of the welfare department’s “clients” are “New Mainers.” To translate out of liberal Euphemese, in the context of the massive ongoing invasion Biden has facilitated, this means they are overwhelmingly illegal aliens.

It can be assumed that Westbrook is no outlier, and that a similar state of affairs prevails in small towns throughout the country. The situation in big cities is even worse.

The American people are being forced to finance their own conquest and displacement. Our ancestors would have fought to the last man before submitting to this.

On a tip from R F.

After opening the border and inviting millions upon millions to flood in from the Third World to displace us, our arrogant rulers are treating the invaders to prepaid debit cards, to be financed by taxpayers:

Migrant families in New York city have begun receiving prepaid debit cards as part of a controversial scheme that could see them receive up to $18,200 a year. …

Mayor Eric Adams is pressing ahead with the $53 million scheme, despite a furious backlash…

A family of four with two children could receive up to $350 per week…

More motivation to drop those anchor babies quickly. Democrats want their offspring on the voter rolls ASAP.

Don’t worry, all the money will be spent appropriately:

Participants will also have to sign an affidavit swearing they will only use the cards for food or baby supplies at the risk of being removed from the program.

They would invade our country in contravention of our laws to effectively enslave us via the welfare state, but they would never sign an affidavit and then cheat.

In case you aren’t enraged yet, here’s what our liberal rulers think of our intelligence:

Adams insists the debit cards will save the city $600,000 a month…

Haven’t you heard? Wasting money saves money.

That must be why liberals let the numberless hordes of illegal aliens invade in the first place: so as to save money by showering it upon them.

You can’t blame Democrats for thinking the public is witless. After all, people voted for Adams.

Chances are good you didn’t vote for him. Nonetheless, you will help pick up the tab for his moonbattery when New York inevitably spends itself into bankruptcy and gets bailed out by the federal government. This will be financed largely through inflation.

Adams’ decision to award the contract for the debit cards to Mobility Capital Finance on an emergency basis without competitive bids from other companies has also raised eyebrows.

This company defines itself with the slogan, FINTECH FOR AN EQUITABLE SOCIETY. That is, it is run by Marxists, just like New York.

This closely related story will surprise no one:

The New York City Council is begging an appellate court to authorize more than 800,000 foreign nationals to vote in the city’s municipal elections.

At the state level, to make sure the “newcomers” know who to vote for,

New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed $2.4 billion in spending for migrants…

At the national level, Biden continues to reward the illegal aliens he invited to invade and move them toward the voter rolls.

It has been said that democracy only works until people realize they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. As it is turning out for us, it only works until one party figures out it can import a vast and explosively reproducing underclass that will largely subsist on that largesse. In either case, economic collapse is inevitable, followed by an authoritarian form of government.

On tips from Chuck A, Ed McAninch, Wiggins, and WDS 2.0.

As the great Milton Friedman observed, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.” Try it and you will have an ever-expanding population of parasites who refuse to work while ever more foreigners must be imported to get menial work done. Consider meatpacking:

For politicians in Washington and New York City, an unprecedented stream of asylum seekers presents an intractable problem with no easy answers. For companies like Tyson Foods Inc., struggling to fill unpleasant jobs with a US unemployment rate of 3.9%, this new population presents an alluring opportunity.

“Asylum seeker” is Liberalese for illegal alien. The unemployment rate refers to people who are looking for work; it does not include people who are paid not to work.

“We would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them,” said Garrett Dolan, who leads Tyson’s efforts to eliminate employment barriers such as immigration status or the need for childcare.

Another 42,000 should be easy to find with Biden’s handlers in power and the border wide open.

When the current workforce figures out they can make a comparable living voting instead of working for a living complements of lavishly generous welfare programs, we can just import still more coolies from the Third World.

Liberals love the word “sustainable.” Yet they never apply it to economics or demographics.

On a tip from Wiggins.

It’s a great scam, and the entire planet knows about it. Sneak across the undefended US border, drop an anchor baby, and you are set for life:

That’s how illegal aliens manage to collect more welfare than American citizens. The arrangement works great for freeloaders from across the Third World and for Democrats determined to eradicate America through demographic displacement.

It does not work so well for those of us effectively enslaved by our government to finance our own cultural genocide.

On a tip from Bluto.